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Bishop Rings are a common type of habitat in the fictional universe of the Orion's Arm worldbuilding project; [4] their radius varies from as little as 100 km to as much as 1000 km (62–620 mi). The eponymous Halo ring installations of the Halo video game series are essentially Bishop Rings with slightly divergent proportions.
Bishop Ring may refer to: Bishop's Ring , a type of atmospheric effect that causes a colored halo around the sun Bishop Ring (habitat) , a theoretical type of ring-shaped space habitat originally proposed in 1997 by Forrest Bishop.
The exterior of the HALO module will feature body-mounted radiators (BMRs), batteries and communications antennae will be added. One axial docking port will connect to the International logistics and habitat module (I-HAB) and one radial docking port is allocated for use by the Human Landing System .
A Bishop Ring, Halo or Orbital is a space habitat similar to but much smaller than a Niven Ring. Instead of being centered on a star, it is in orbit around the star and its diameter is typically on the order of magnitude of a planet. By tilting the ring relative to its orbit, the inner surface would experience a nearly conventional day and ...
Bishop Rings (large ring-shaped habitats), described as the largest spinning ring-shaped habitats that can be built using non-exotic materials. [25] Similar to Iain M. Banks' Orbitals or Halo. Complex orbital ring variants (suprastellar and supraplanetary shells) that perform functions similar to Dyson spheres. Shellworlds; Topopoli; Space ...
2013: The Neill Blomkamp film Elysium has an enormous space station called Elysium (an open-roofed station 60 kilometres (37 mi) in diameter [9]) somewhere between a much-larger open-roofed Bishop Ring and a smaller, fully enclosed Stanford Torus.) The station in the movie supports a city and habitat for the privileged upper classes of Earth.
One of the main types of habitats of the Culture, an orbital is a ring structure orbiting a star as would a megastructure akin to a bigger Bishop ring. Unlike a ringworld or a Dyson sphere, an orbital does not enclose the star (being much too small). Like a ringworld, the orbital rotates to provide an analog of gravity on the inner surface.
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