Efficient, safe, and scalable movement of people, cargo, and materials throughout the hollowed asteroid base — the circulatory system of a permanent habitat.
Enable rapid, low-energy transport inside the large internal volume of the hollowed asteroid, connecting docking bays, habitat zones, life-support systems, manufacturing areas, storage, and recreation spaces.
These systems are installed after power, life support, and docking facilities are operational. They turn the hollowed asteroid from a collection of chambers into a cohesive, functioning city-scale habitat and industrial complex.
Requirement: Zones are those listed in IPLS-3.1.8-002. Whether life-support plant zones are on the network is unset. Tube, car, and guideway interface standards are unset. Power to transport hardpoints follows IPLS-3.1.6-006. Automatic failover acts inside the IPLS-5.1-002 envelope and is logged and reported to the operator. Service life and transitions to artificial-gravity sections are unset.
Rationale: Enables rapid, low-energy movement of people, cargo, and materials throughout the large internal volume, turning the asteroid into a cohesive city-scale habitat.
Open Questions: None at v0.7
Requirement: Maglev tubes connect habitat, manufacturing, docking, storage, and recreation zones. Routes counted as redundant shall not share a tube, power feed, or pressure compartment. The minimum route count per zone pair is unset. Tube pressure follows IPLS-3.1.5-006. Speed, headway, and capacity are unset.
Rationale: Provides fast, low-energy passenger and light-cargo transport across the base while maintaining pressure integrity.
Requirement: Elevators and shafts use automatic safety interlocks. Overrides follow IPLS-3.1.8-007. N+2 applies per shaft group. N per shaft group is unset. Redundant cars shall not share a single power feed or shaft. Rated load per shaft class is unset.
Rationale: Enables efficient vertical movement of heavy cargo and equipment between levels in the hollowed volume.
Requirement: Allocation follows IPLS-3.1-019. Scheduling acts inside the IPLS-5.1-002 envelope. Veto behaviour follows IPLS-3.1.3-002. The 3.1.20 tier of AGVs and cargo handlers is unset.
Rationale: Reduces crew workload and ensures continuous material flow between manufacturing, storage, and docking zones.
Requirement: Egress from an occupied volume, including a tunnel section, maglev car, or elevator car, shall not depend on powered transport. Egress ports follow UMP-EMERG-001. Automatic isolation follows IPLS-3.1.5-006. Airlocks counted as redundant shall not share a single power feed. N per zone boundary is unset.
Rationale: Maintains pressure integrity and crew safety across the entire internal network.
Requirement: Routing and collision avoidance act inside the IPLS-5.1-002 envelope and are logged and reported to the operator. ASI analysis is advisory. Operator veto applies. Collision avoidance continues without the central node. Telemetry goes to the command node on the 3.1.19 network. Peak load and separation minima are unset.
Rationale: Prevents congestion and accidents in a high-traffic, multi-century habitat.
Requirement: Critical transportation functions shall expose physical overrides. Their use follows IPLS-3.1.4-007. On loss of link, life-preserving functions continue inside the IPLS-5.1-002 envelope and other actions follow the IPLS-3.1-014 hold. The safe step for a vehicle or car in motion is unset.
Rationale: Keeps command with the operator under IPLS-5.1-002.
Requirement: Tunnel and shaft addition follows IPLS-3.1.4-006. Allocation follows IPLS-3.1-019.
Rationale: Supports exponential chamber expansion without major disruption to existing operations.