The public watched the corporate scrambling over the Nova Technologies partnership emails through an entirely different lens, because to ordinary people, those announcements were simply good news from start to finish.
For months, everyone on Earth had carried a quiet, persistent question about the fifty-five-kilometer megastructure parked at the Lagrange 5 point: What would it actually feel like to live on a space station that lacked the familiar comforts of home?
Humanity already knew what Nova was building—a marvel of engineering where virtually nothing material would be lacking. And on a station of that scale, physical survival was guaranteed.
