The Banks Orbital is a ring-shaped Space Habitat over a million miles across with hundreds of times more living area than the entire Earth.

The Banks Orbital: God’s Bracelet

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Alternative Intelligence: The Other A.I.

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One day our civilization may settle our whole galaxy, with mighty star empires consisting of millions if not billions of worlds, but what would the centers of such empires be like?

The Banks Orbital: God’s Bracelet

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