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That last pic is the fantasy. This one is closer to the reality. A living and working complex which houses and provides for 100 families, although total populations of 100 individuals or less are more likely, and in the early days only a few dozen.

The first will be utilitarian looking collections of steel cylinders. As colonies become higher budget affairs and cater to a wealthier clientele they will be built using the same materials and principles employed today to build aquariums, with large curved acrylic windows and panoramic transparent tunnels. These colonies will be geared more towards tourism than anything industrially or agriculturally productive.