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The size of an Orbital is dictated by day length and surface "gravity" - they are arguably more elegant than Niven style Rings which need a lot of extra stuff to generate day/night cycles (shadow squares?).


Yes. One book (The Player of Games?) gave enough numbers for me to do the calculations, and it matched about 24h and 1g.




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