infrastructure

Subsurface buildout remains the default because early visibility, exposure, and thermal volatility are still too expensive to manage above ground.

Atmosphere instability forced one colony to suspend several fabrication practices that had been treated as routine.

Bioadaptive support layers are spreading into other roles because they help with repair, buffering, and endurance even outside extreme exposure zones.

A planned habitat extension was postponed when operators found instability in the local power-routing profile.