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It may be boring, but someone’s gotta do it. Centuries ago, mail was all the
rage. You could send someone a letter a thousand kilometers away, and it might
only take a month to get there, or never! Doesn’t that sound neat? Over time,
of course, speed picked up as infrastructure was developed, and efficient
methods were discovered—or rediscovered, as in the case of relay
stations. In the late 20th century, they invented electronic mail, which may
lead you to believe that regular physical post was all but eradicated, but not
so fast my friend. Adoption was slow, and...people are dumb. They still sent
letters. Plus, the population was booming, so even if any given individual
wasn’t sending as much, the volume was still increasing overall. It did
eventually die down, but one thing that didn’t go away was package delivery.
Instead of just the written word, real, useful items had to be transported
from one place to another. There was no way to send that electronically. Or
was there? Of course there is! It’s called additive manufacturing, and
it’s been improving too. Not everyone has their own industrial synthesizer,
and there are some things that standard feedstocks can’t handle. If there are
too many different types of materials in one item, you can’t expect every end
user to maintain each type in their private space. And even if you did, the
feedstock itself has to be delivered, right? That’s where this dome comes in.
It’s a hub for all your shipping and delivering needs. It doesn’t take weeks
to get to its destination, though, unless whatever you asked for hasn’t been
built yet. I say, if something you ordered takes more than a few hours to
reach you, there’s probably something wrong. Shipping was one of the easiest
industries to transition to automation back when human employment was
something necessary in order to maintain a stable economy. You pick this thing
up, put it in this box, seal it up, and move it to its destination. The
programming couldn’t be simpler. Only one human works here. He walks up and
down, making sure that things are okay. Obviously, the robots do this too, but
they like to put a human touch in everything, and that’s true of pretty
much every planet, except maybe Glisnia. Come here for a tour if you have a
few hours to kill, but you could also probably just read the more detailed
literature on the prospectus, and get just as much out of it.
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