Thank you so much again!! This is all incredibly interesting.

The story is indeed very soft scifi, plus, these sorts of details flesh out the background rather than the main content of the plot, but I thought it would be important (and fun!) to get a sense of the details of the science and logistics before I relegate it to that background role… or even bring some of it into the foreground. (If I ultimately decide to solve these problems with scifi BS, I want to know I’m BS’ing it, you know?)

One final question for now… do you have any recommendations for other scifi novels with a similar setting? :D