Vesper

The Vesper Class Atmospheric Habitat, or simply Vesper, is a class of Cloud City made to allow human habitatation within the dense atmospheres of gas and cloud covered planets. The habitat was designed by the Venus based Hollingshead Group as a counter design to the Earth based Hesperus cities and was dubbed the first example of truely Venusian architecture.   The habitat was designed to hold a maximum population of about 2.75 million.

Structure & Design

In direct contract to previous designs, Vesper cities sit higher in the atmosphere and consist of a single platform megastructure instead of two connected structures. However, in keeping with the Hesperus design, the Vesper design has a long conical inverted spire-like structure that hangs below the main platform.

Habitat Platform

The Main platform of the city can be broken up into three sections, from top to bottom: the upper platform, balloon level, and the lower platform.   Much like the domes of Hesperus cities, the dome at the top of every Vesper city allows structures to be built and populations to grow vertically and open to the view of the sky. A portion of the surface of the domed section is covered in a thick layer of nutrient regulated soil for argricultural puroses. Outside the dome sit four docking facilities at each of the square platform's corners, the docks can only be used by specialized shuttles built to withstand the individual extreme requirments of the planet's atmosphere, these shuttles take passangers between the cities in the atmosphere and the transport stations in orbit.   Beneath the dome and upper platform, the city is held aloft by eight massive mylar-polymar balloons arranged in a circle around a hollow central structure, this structure houses all the pressure regulartion equipment, as well as redundant balloons that can be deployed in the event of deflation of sinking emergency. Further into the central structure is more habitat building space, as well as storage and industry space for any future need.   The lower platform houses the inner working of the city itself; water purification, air manufacturing and purification, waste facilities, power stations, etc.

Inverted Spire

Underneath the lower platform of the main habitat section is a long slender cone that desends toward the more pressiruzed clouds below the city. This "spire" consists of two sections and along its length houses all the hoses and wirse needed to transport raw material pulled from the atmosphere into the city itself. The top section is twenty horizontally oriented wind turbines used to generate electricity. The lower section holds spherical orb at its tip, which is the heating facility and siphons for raw gas supplies.