My Ultimate Sign-in System Made Me Invincible Chapter 671 Nova Technologies' Space Station Construction Starts
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📢 Official Announcement
Nova Technologies confirms that construction of its first space station has begun.
NOVA TECHNOLOGIES SPACE STATION
Location
The space station is positioned at the Earth-Moon Lagrange 5 point. The station will remain in permanent fixed position relative to Earth without requiring active propulsion to maintain its location.
Scale
The station spans 55 kilometers by 27.5 kilometers.
Purpose
The space station will serve as Nova Technologies' primary interface with Earth and as a research and development platform for companies, organizations, and government entities.
Sections
The station is divided into eight primary sections.
Nova Technologies Operational Quarter. The station's core operational section housing all systems and infrastructure supporting Nova Technologies' Earth-facing operations. This section is exclusively Nova Technologies' and is not accessible to tenant entities.
Research and Development District. The tenant-facing section divided into individual self-contained research zones available for lease by companies, organizations, and government entities. Each zone includes laboratory spaces, equipment bays, storage, a basic medical station with first aid level equipment, and personnel quarters. Earth-normal gravity is standard throughout. Dedicated microgravity research bays are available within each zone for experiments requiring weightlessness. All research activity within every zone is monitored continuously by Nova Technologies.
Residential District. Permanent and long-term housing for all station inhabitants including, research tenant staff, and station support personnel.
Commercial and Recreational District. Restaurants, retail, entertainment, recreational facilities, and engineered green spaces supporting the station's permanent inhabited population.
Medical District. Full medical facility serving all station inhabitants regardless of section affiliation.
Agricultural and Life Support District. Food production and water management infrastructure supporting the station's permanent inhabited population.
Transit District. High-speed internal transit network connecting all station sections across the station's full footprint.
Docking and Reception District. Shuttle bays, docking ports, and reception and processing infrastructure for all arriving and departing personnel and vessels. All personnel transport between Earth and the station is handled exclusively by Nova Technologies' shuttle fleet.
Expansion Zones. Designated zones built into the station's original structure to accommodate future growth in population, tenant demand, and operational requirements.
Construction Timeline
Construction is underway. The station will be operational within one month.
Access and Pricing
Access tiers, pricing, and terms for institutional, organizational, and governmental use of the station will be announced separately ahead of the operational launch date.
— Nova Technologies.
***
For the past forty-eight hours, humanity had been absorbing the shock of the Nova Express rollout and bracing itself for the looming sixty-day countdown to LucidNet Finance.
The collective psychological state of six billion users had shifted from chaotic internet warfare to a grim, focused calculation of their future under Universal Basic Income and unedited state ledgers.
But the announcement of the space station construction start rattled them once more.
At first, the feed froze. For nearly two minutes, the billions of active accounts across Earth sat in absolute silence, reading through the parameters line by line, trying to reconcile the scale of what was being described with existing human engineering limits.
Then, the floodgates opened.
Unlike the blind rage or panic that had accompanied previous announcements, the initial reaction across LucidNet was characterized by a stunned, staggering attempt at mathematical comprehension.
The users didn't scream or post frantic memes; they immediately pulled out scale models, comparative maps, and orbital mechanics calculations, struggling to process the sheer gigantism of the project.
*Fifty-five kilometers by twenty-seven point five kilometers,* a prominent aerospace engineer posted on LucidNet, his post immediately surging to the top of the discovery feed. *Let that number actually settle into your brain. The International Space Station—the pinnacle of twentieth and twenty-first-century human cooperation—spans roughly one hundred and nine meters across and weighs around four hundred tons. It houses seven astronauts. Nova Technologies is building a structure that is fifty-five kilometers long. That is longer than the entire island of Manhattan. It is a flying metropolis positioned at the Earth-Moon Lagrange 5 point, and they are claiming it will be fully operational in ONE MONTH.*
The comment section beneath the engineer's post instantly transformed into a high-level scientific forum, with hundreds of thousands of engineers, physicists, and architects dissecting the parameters.
*"Look at the location choice,"* replied a doctoral candidate in orbital mechanics. *"Lagrange 5. It's a stable gravitational sweet spot between the Earth and the Moon. They explicitly stated the station will remain in a permanent fixed position relative to Earth without requiring active propulsion. They aren't just building a massive tin can; they are parking a self-sustaining planetary satellite in a gravitationally balanced parking lot."*
*"The engineering timeline is what defies belief,"* another user chimed in, posting a comparative timeline chart. *"NASA spent twelve years and over one hundred billion dollars just to assemble a modular football-field-sized station in low Earth orbit. Nova says they are constructing a fifty-five-kilometer megastructure in thirty days. Even with their off-world automated mainframes and lunar industrial capacity, the sheer material logistics required to assemble something that size in a month implies they possess automated off-speed manufacturing techniques that are centuries ahead of anything we have on Earth."*
As the baseline metrics were cross-referenced, the sheer disbelief gave way to a deeper, more profound realization of what the station actually represented.
This wasn't just a corporate headquarters or a private laboratory. It was an independent, sovereign bridge between Earth and the cosmos.
*"Read section two and three carefully,"* a structural architect pointed out in a widely shared thread. *"The Research and Development District is tenant-facing, complete with Earth-normal gravity standard and dedicated microgravity bays. They are inviting global companies, organizations, and government entities to lease space on an off-world megastructure. But look at the catch: 'All research activity within every zone is monitored continuously by Nova Technologies.' And the operational quarter is exclusively theirs, entirely walled off from tenants. They aren't renting space on a station; they are leasing rooms inside their fortress while retaining absolute administrative sovereignty over the entire platform."*
*"It's a diplomatic and economic neutral zone,"* an international relations scholar added. *"For months, sovereign governments have been losing their minds over their inability to regulate Nova Technologies because the company operates from the hidden side of the moon. By building a fifty-kilometer station at Lagrange 5—acting as their primary interface with Earth—Nova is essentially establishing an off-world customs house and tech park. They are telling world governments: 'You don't need to fly rockets to the moon to negotiate with us or conduct advanced R&D. Come to our station. Rent our labs. Play by our rules.'"*
While the scientific and academic communities marveled at the technical mechanics, the general population focused heavily on the social and domestic implications embedded within the station's layout.
Users began highlighting the district breakdown, pointing out the human-centric design choices that proved Nova Technologies wasn't just building an industrial machine, but a permanent habitat for thousands of people.
*"Did you guys look at the district list?"* a lifestyle Lucid Studio creator streamed live to millions of viewers. *"Residential district, commercial and recreational district with engineered green spaces, a full medical district, and an agricultural and life support district! This thing isn't a temporary research outpost; it's a self-contained ecosystem. People are going to live there permanently. Researchers, support staff, families. They built parks, restaurants, and green spaces fifty-five kilometers out in space!"*
*"And look at the transit rule,"* a viewer commented in the live chat. *"'All personnel transport between Earth and the station is handled exclusively by Nova Technologies' shuttle fleet.' No private corporate shuttles. No national space agency rockets. If you want to go to the Lagrange 5 station, you ride in a Nova lunar shuttle. They maintain an absolute, unbroken monopoly on the vertical axis of planetary transit."*
Naturally, as the initial wave of analytical awe settled, a few fringe political commentators and legacy state media outlets attempted to spin the announcement as a threatening power play, trying to revive the anti-Nova rhetoric that had briefly flared up during the Nova Express protests.
A state-backed news channel in a major Western capital broadcasted an urgent editorial: *"Citizens of Earth, look closely at what is happening! Nova Technologies is now constructing a militarizable, fifty-kilometer fortress in orbit above our heads. A structure of that scale could easily house kinetic energy weapons capable of holding our entire planet hostage! We are witnessing the construction of an off-world imperial capital, completely outside the jurisdiction of the United Nations!"*
Two days earlier, such an editorial might have gained traction among an anxious public fearful of sudden technological displacement.
Tonight, the community's response was swift, unified, and utterly dismissive.
Within minutes of the broadcast hitting LucidNet, the clip was ratioed into oblivion, accompanied by thousands of logical takedowns from everyday users.
*"Hold on,"* a top-voted post replied to the broadcast clip with a dry, factual tone. *"Let's use our brains for a second. If Nova Technologies wanted to hold our planet hostage, they didn't need to build a fifty-kilometer space station at Lagrange 5. They already control the orbital mainframes, they already operate hypersonic autonomous spacecraft that can drop through our atmosphere at Mach 12, and they literally just gave every small business a borderless marketplace and every citizen a path to Universal Basic Income. Why would they spend billions of tons of lunar steel to build a space station just to threaten us when they already own the entire global economy lock, stock, and barrel?"*
*"Exactly,"* another user chimed in. *"They aren't building a weapon platform; they are building a gateway. For years, our governments told us that space exploration was too expensive, too dangerous, and too far away for ordinary humanity. Now, a private entity is putting a self-sustaining, Manhattan-sized oasis in orbit in thirty days, offering Earth-normal gravity, commercial districts, and advanced R&D zones. You aren't mad that it's a military threat; you're mad because it proves our governments spent a century dragging their feet while an eighteen-year-old on the moon built the future in his spare time."*
The manufactured fear dissolved instantly under the weight of public common sense. The old narrative of state paranoia and corporate dread could no longer find a foothold in a society that was actively transitioning into a borderless, high-tech era.
As the hours ticked away, the global focus shifted from speculative worry to intense, breathless anticipation.