STARSCRAPER CITY

Starscraper City is what they call the twin rows of high-rises at the front of the ship, where all the colonists live.

The ship is like a high-tech city flying through space, complete
with cops, criminals, great bars, shopping malls, the works.

FORTY-TWO MILES LONG, the UNICS Madison Hopkins is armed to the teeth and designed to impress, so if warlike aliens turn up they’ll have second thoughts about messing with Earth.

Starscraper City apartments were carefully designed to provide the

best conditions possible for enduring sixteen years in deep space.

Starscraper City soaked up the abilities of the world’s greatest architects and interior designers. The corridors and boulevards and malls are studded with magnificent artifacts reflecting the cultures of Earth, from Polynesia to ancient Egypt. Admiral Jack’s palatial office even includes Van Goghs and a Matisse.

Made from black steel, the hardest substance known to science, the sixty
storey starscrapers have panoramic views of the galaxy. It's five miles from
port to starboard and the domes halfway are the location of the Earth Park.

The spear shaped front of the ship includes Starscraper City, the biosphere Earth Park, the second quantum computer ever made, over one hundred factories, the cryogenic facilities, hydro-farms, command centres, a stadium, and the space marines and starship crew barracks. Twenty-five miles of massive dropships are next, linked together like railway boxcars and stacked to the rafters with one hundred years supplies for a brave new world, from kitset nanochip fabs to fusion reactors and micro breweries. The Fusion Power Division at the stern has eight hundred workers under rotation, maintaining and operating the temperamental stardrives and their mighty exhausts, which occupies the last seven miles of the starship. The Gravity Generator Division is another big employer with more than five hundred on staff and the Cryogenics and the Science Divisions also provide hundreds of jobs for the colonists. Many of whom operate their own businesses, running restaurants, nightclubs, bars and stores, etc.

The giant fusion drives at the rear take up seven miles of the MadHop.