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All this stuff went over my head, but in case you don’t see it from the title,
this place is where most of the chemicals we use are produced. It even
produces some water, for certain uses, though the majority of that comes from
outer system ice mining. I won’t bore you with the details that my tour guide
went over, because I don’t remember them. I’ll just say that this is clearly a
very important place. They’re used to create organic substrates, and then to
sustain them once people download their consciousnesses into them. Mechanical
substrates still use gear lubricant. Synthesizer feedstock, spaceship energy
maintenance and propulsion, superconductors, and the constituent parts of
metamaterials. Everything is a chemical, in case you don’t know, and it all
starts here. I wish I understood it better, but the tour was very dry, and
they assumed a level of intelligence and education that I don’t have. Everyone
else probably had no problem, though. I felt like an idiot, trying to keep up
with what she was saying. I suppose that’s my only complaint. I obviously
don’t take issue with the dome itself. It’s doing what needs to be done, and
it sounds like it’s doing a great job at it. I just think there should be
different kinds of tours, which cater to people of different backgrounds and
interests. I did want to learn something, but it was so advanced that I
basically ended up with nothing. I think what’s happened is that the planet’s
priorities are in the really big and popular domes, which demand a lot of
resources, like a massive android population. That leaves these educational,
institutional domes behind. They develop what they’re asked to, but they don’t
support a visiting population in addition to that. It’s just something to
think about. I dunno, maybe it’s just all my fault. Whatever. Do what you
gotta do.
