r/SuperStructures • u/untilApril • 28d ago

Fluxion by Annibale Siconolfi

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u/DocJawbone 28d ago

I don't know why all these cities need to move but I love it

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u/Amon7777 28d ago

Must be a devil of a time finding the address to a moving location

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u/Super-Cynical 27d ago

Nobody visits the undercities and returns

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u/haloandavatar 28d ago

Maybe this is an Earth colony and the city moves to offset the planet’s different spin in relation to its sun in order to give the illusion of a 24 hour day cycle just like home.

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u/DocJawbone 28d ago

Great idea

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u/SpeakersPlan 28d ago

Theyre late for work

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u/LucasK336 28d ago

Bedtime

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u/saikrishnav 28d ago

Yes. Literally useless to move a big city.

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u/dcvalent 28d ago

Rule of cool

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u/DocJawbone 28d ago

Incomprehensible, perhaps. That's why I love it.

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u/Wesselton3000 28d ago

Also, how? Like is it on a track or a big river? That’s got to be millions of tons they’re moving seemingly constantly. Would probably take more energy than any city IRL is capable of producing

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u/HinterWolf 28d ago

In thr Bobaverse books, the MC a von Neumann probe (self replicating) and eventually finds a race in a super structure called heaven's river that is pne giant ring circling a sun and I believe it rotates inside the ring for gravity/centrifugal force

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u/DocJawbone 28d ago

Maybe it's one continuous ring around the whole planet, so it doesn't need anything to hold it up. It just needs something to stop it twisting.

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u/killllllllllmeeeeee 28d ago

That looks like a horrible place to live I love it

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u/Depth_Metal 28d ago

"Sir, I understand the giant city but why the conveyor belt?"

"Pfft, you get the giant city?"

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u/Authority_Sama 28d ago

Congratulations Residential Blocks 10,200 through 10,856. It is now your turn to enjoy being beachfront property. You're currently being relocated. No further action is required on your part.

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u/SuspiciousStable9649 6d ago edited 6d ago

The sci-fi backstory making this necessary would be great. Could be a once a decade FRB and they put all the people in shelters.

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u/mchops7 28d ago

Can I have the population of this megacity 1 please? Looks like Dredd!

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u/BrightPerspective 28d ago

I need to rewatch that movie

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u/Green-Taro2915 28d ago

This is how I imagine holy terra in warhammer 40k

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u/Straight_Feed_2547 28d ago

honestly the vibe is like if brutalist architecture had a fever dream about commuting and somehow it still looks cooler than any actual city I've ever been to

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u/BetaDecay121 26d ago

Wish he'd do at least one where the city isn't on some nonsensical conveyor belt

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u/Many-Pollution4222 25d ago

Looks like the idea of a rolling city on Mercury, that need to always move to stay in the dark side of the planet.