...and more strikingly is the fact that the land curves up and around in a ring being only broken up by a set of structural pylons. All of which is under a multi layer transparent canopy. Beyond that you can see the stars, sun, Luna and the Earth.
You are now on a toroidal space station at the L2 Lagrange Point. It has a habitation ring which has a circumference of 128 km and is four kilometers across. You possess a farm that occupies an area of 1600 hectares of that which includes grazing land for 512 cattle taking up about a forth of that with another quarter section given over to potatoes, another quarter has some young tea bushes and another section simply has grass growing on it, but can be adapted to whatever crop you feel is nice. To get around your section you have a 2 tonne electric pickup truck and Mr Poops, a friendly Australian Stock Horse. Aiding you in your agricultural endeavors is your Lagrange Jessie, your section's Coordinating AI with a cartoon cowgirl as her avatar. She has a fleet of 128 robots including a sect of quad rotor scout bots and a truck sized potato harvester, but most of which are treaded vehicles a meter long, 50cm tall, 25cm across with a turret that can be outfitted with either one large or four small robotic arms and a hopper which are based in a drone garage. There is a control room on the top floor of the building in which Lagrange Jessie's activities can be coordinated. Five hundred meters from your home is The Grange, a processing facility for the agricultural produce as well as silos and cold rooms. The temperature of the torus is kept at 25° and rain is regularly scheduled based on what crops you want to grow. Chemical plants and bioreactors on the outside of the torus provide soil and fertilizer. It has an extensive gene bank of terran cultivars. Water is also distrusted via drip irrigation networks and fertilizers can provided elsewhere. Consumer goods such as laptops, shampoo and toy dinosaurs can be fabricated internally.
There are fifteen other sections like this one on the Torus each with their own. Spinward from your location is a Japanese Family growing Rice, Tea and in a large saltwater lake kelp and fish and past them an Italian Family with wheat, tomatoes and grapes. Antispinward are some Australians with Peach Orchards, Sheep and Tomatoes and past them some Germans growing wheat, barley and pigs. The remaining 64 square km is somewhat unusual as it is all one unit has a small village in it's center home to 128 transplanted Kibbutzniks from Israel. Each farm has an elevator and suspended 250 meters above each farm are two monorail lines for transporting people and supplies around the Torus. There are also elevators which lead to The Hub, which includes a spaceport and fabrication systems which can build drop pods for food delivery up to 300 tonnes to the earth's surface. These drop pods take a week to make a safe descent and are not designed for use by humans. Similarly slugs of cometary material are brought in to replace lost biomass. The Kibbutz has two MDs and a Dentist. There are also a married pair of RCMP constables to keep law and order on this station. Nobody has COVID 19. There is radio contact between earth and the Torus, though with a noticeable delay.
What do you do?
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