Hull Construction

Introduction

The habitat's structure is designed primarily to resist the impacts of any particles that have managed to stray past the protective hull plating.

Construction

The habitat is constructed using much the same materials as the [hull plating]]- a sandwich of materials alternating between a sheet of tungsten, and digh density foam. The tungsten will absorb any impact caused by a projectile, and will fail. WHen the tungsten fails, it transfers the energy of the projectile into several smaller pieces of tungsten. These pieces are restrained by the foam, which absorbs the energy. The habitat's hull also acts as a faraday cage- grounding all electromagnetic signals that enter the habitat, and preventing their interference with delicate electronic equipment. An antennae protrudes from this faraday cage to allow for the recieption of radio communications.