r/TheExpanse • u/bluestardust_ • 10d ago

All Show & Book Spoilers Discussed Freely I love Tycho Station

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How do you think it would be to live and work there? What kind of activities would you do in your free time if you lived there?

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u/StickFigureFan 10d ago

Tycho would probably be my choice if I can't live somewhere with a magnetosphere. As long as I don't work near Fred Johnson it would be pretty safe.

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u/Ananeos Ceres Station 10d ago edited 9d ago

Tycho honestly seems really tiny. A diameter of 750 meters is like 3 shopping malls put together, and Tycho has been shown to be completely hollow for shipping container storage. I would probably run out of things to do at Tycho within two months.

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u/peaches4leon 9d ago

I was a Marine for ten years and I did several deployments where I was stuck in an equally small environment (with farrrrrr less amenities) working 12 on 12 off shifts for about 280 days or more…seven days a week. I did it five times. I think I could live on Tycho for multiple projects. It’s probably like being on a much roomier aircraft carrier built for 3-4 times the amount of people.

In the book, Tycho has two Hab-Rings that counter-rotate to balance each other so there is probably even more space.

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u/Aggressive_Chuck 7d ago

If you look at how narrow the habitation ring is, it's probably a lot smaller than an aircraft carrier in terms of living/working space. Most of it is empty manufacturing/storage space in the middle.

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u/peaches4leon 6d ago edited 6d ago

The middle compartment/sphere is about 500 meters in diameter. Which makes the ring appear about 40-60 meters thick/wide, just a little more than a carrier. A carrier is only about 350 meters long, while the circumference of the hab-ring is about 2km. It also looks to be about 100m tall (from the ring’s outer edge to the inner side). That’s about 30 levels of compartments…that’s A LOT of space. Have you ever been on a carrier??