How to Connect a Cylinder to a Spaceship

Cylindrical habitats can move, and so we might see an entire cylinder move elsewhere if a big factory or corporation most folks worked at went belly up. I suspect you'd often see dozens if not hundreds of these cylinders connected together to form bigger communities. Such habitats aren't really ideal spaceships, since you don't build them with much acceleration in mind but they are definitely mobile. By default your natural smallest subsidiary government would be the whole cylinder itself - though larger ones might contain several village councils.

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