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Before Christmas, as promised!  Even if Christmas is going to be a bit weird this year, given my mother just caught COVID.  So that's a thing.  She's on the mend, but it's probably going to catch everyone in the house, which means family from out of town cancelled at the last minute and everything is kind of a dumpster fire now.

Anyway!  You didn't come here for drama.  Or, well, non-literary drama.

I plan on taking the next week to work on a chapter of Speedrun and Nexus as a Christmas present to myself and everyone who doesn't usually get what they want out of the poll.  So look forward (hopefully) to that.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and know that once again you have my most sincere gratitude for all the support you've shown me this year.  I really do appreciate it.

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Winning Peace 12-20

Chapter 12: I'd tried, but as much effort as I'd put in, we still weren't quite at the point of a classless utopia. Don't get me wrong. Part of that was, frustratingly enough, the people themselves. It turns out the vast majority of humanity liked having something analogous to social classes, t...

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Aeonstorm

TFTC! Merry Christmas and I hope you all stay healthy.

Zerak

Isn’t Venus a blazing inferno 737 K (867 °F, 464 °C)? It is the hottest planet in our solar system. I feel it would be much easier to heat a colony than it would be to cool it. Plus closeness to the sun would have an increased risk of solar related issues cropping up.

Slayer Anderson

Cloud Cities. There's a significant block of people who consider Venus' upper atmosphere, where pressure and temperature are Earth-like to be more viable than even Mars.

Aeonstorm

I suppose it depends heavily on what technology you have available. As technology and civilisation grows there are a lot of different predictions and theories about habitats. I mean sci fi has space rings in space or around planets, dysonspheres or rings around stars. I mean there have been theories about moving industry, manufacturing and agriculture into space and have planets solely for living space or you could do it the other way round and have forge worlds like 40k lol.

Slayer 10321

If you want to terraform Venus, then why not branch out into Battletechs terraforming technology? Those guys 'somehow' managed to turn Venus into a Garden World and breadbasket of Sol (before Amaris fucked it all up) within a century or so after all. Might be interesting to see what kind of technological sorcery they used to do so, first hand (thanks to II).