Floating Cities

A Floating City is a large megastructure that resides in the atmosphere of a planet. Focused mainly on Gas planets, the megastructures can house up to millions of people. They usually have double functions such as defense platforms, or refineries. The first floating cities were built on gas planets found by the Tyrll. Todays floating cities are much more advanced then older generation cities.

First Generation
First Generation floating cities used extensive wind turbines to keep the city afloat. While this worked it was impractical and required the use of large quantities of energy. While these first generation habitats worked well sometimes these turbines would lose power and tumble into the tempest that existed below. Another major fault was the atmospheric control devices. While originally a simple nanoweb screen was used, this allowed particles to still displace in between the internal and external atmosphere. If this nanoweb was disrupted or torn massive amounts of atmosphere would spill out effectively killing the inhabitants and causing the city to destabilize and fall into the abyss. Another important design factor was the outer armor that could withstand the pressure and sometimes the caustic gases that could tear holes in the armor. First generation designs were functional but many of them had serious problems and they were known to suddenly shudder and drop out of the sky.