Talk:The Ark/@comment-173.226.71.162-20150506163732

When Kass Morgan described "the Colony" in the book, I was thinking of multiple separate spacecraft tethered together and rotating equidistant around a common center, kind of like a big spider web or wagon wheel with the stations arranged at the outer edge. That's the only possible way to clamber together multiple craft in orbit AND spin the whole thing to simulate gravity. It would have been much easier to construct than the Ark we see in the series and would maximize habitable volume, and all the simulated gravity would pull in the same direction (outward) which would be convenient for the inhabitants. The ark as depicted in the series has multiple rotating sections. That would mean gravity would be oriented in a different direction in each module, and you would have to cross through a Zero-G area to travel between them. But it get it... it looks way more space station-y than my much more boring and practical idea.