Archive for 2026 week 12

• Downports - 16 Mar 2026

Wichita has a tiny GA airport affectionately referred to as "Dead Cow International." There's a tale of a calf who wandered onto the runway at an inopportune time, before the area became an industrial district. Its actual name is just Westport Airport, since obviously it's not equipped for international traffic (the real airport a few miles away is).

• Carlentia/Anchor Blue - 17 Mar 2026

I've moved the Anchor Blue entries into the wiki, and it's made me think: Carlentia probably was Inukari-settled, so I think I'll push the original Zhdez frontier back to the Therbings/Bertania cluster.

• Anchor Blue again - 18 Mar 2026

Yep, I decided Anchor Blue started out Zhdez. And given its position, and ongoing Zhdez-inflected status, that it's going to be popular with Terran refugees as well, which possibly means I need to flesh it out more because you know what, an enormous station/world with conflicting cultures is bound to be an interesting place.

• Anchor Blue scale - 19 Mar 2026

I just ran some numbers on a sphere divided into floors and... whew.

• Anchor Blue hyperfixation - 20 Mar 2026

I spent a good part of yesterday running calculations and drawing diagrams, then had a Firefox tab freeze up for almost 24 hours when I hadn't saved the text file of all my notes. I figured there was an autosave but I had never gone and recovered one before and it's a good thing I was hesitant because it turns out gedit doesn't have autosave on by default.

• Anchor Blue base settings - 21 Mar 2026

I think I'm going to drop it back to a powerplant/maneuver drive that keeps it in orbit and provides some minimal power to bootstrap the station, no pre-installed agrav, no pre-installed lighting. The central floor is filled with water, and mayyyyybe the other floors are pre-filled with air (ongoing life support is DIY).

• Fleshing out the Zhdezplier - 22 Mar 2026

I decided to let Anchor Blue percolate for awhile, and went to the Charted Space page and realized the Zhdezplier was an empty link. Time to think about that for awhile!