Vulnerability of Space Settlements to Attacks

Lucio de Souza Coelho wrote:

> However, I do concede that *economical* reasons may postpone the
> building of
> big colonies to the far future. Human civilizations are not used to
> build a
> whole city from scratch and then populate it; instead, we are used to grow
> cities in incremental steps by adding new buildings as needed. We
> cannot do
> the same thing with a space colony.

Start with a torus, build another one attached to it, then another to it
and so on, When you get enough put an
extra cylindrical shell around the outside enclose the holes in the
center open up some of the internal walls.
When the outer shell is placed make sure it has the windows inbuilt and
open up the torus's under them.

just one idea.

Another - why expand at all, build another one, set it up a short
distance away and run commuter vehicles between them. Rather than the
colony being one small station it becomes a collection of small
stations.We can expand as many as we want and still not be far from each
other.

B