A few questions that I need to know...

[Orngog]

An I the only person who imagines domes are not that prevalent? I think of them as the lowest levels of the palimpsest, the 'lunar bases' that were built upon more than 15,000 years ago. That's why you only hear of 'collapsed' domes.

In my head of goes something like:

Small domes, connected into complexes, remodeled with abandoned wings, forgotten and covered with ash, better tech-level colony built on top, and from there its all Tudor-style jetties and Edinburgh-style streets above streets. As the bottom layers collapse the outside walls are fortified to keep the top safe, thus the Underhive

 

[Kitcar]

They are old because they are the best. A tower of soap bubbles goes incredibly high for it's weight. And it's in the original Necromunda fluff.

 

[Orngog]

Is it? I remember coming across "collapsed domes", but that's it... What do you 'member?

 

[Fold]

Read the LRB which is hosted in the vault and contains the fluff. The entire hive is made from domes of various sizes!

 

[Azzabat]

I like to think of Domes as Hexagons, so more like a cross between a bee-hive and a Termite mound.

If one collapses the others take the weight as there is nowhere for them to move to.

Next to the triangle it is the strongest geometric shape (and unlike the triangle it occurs naturally in nature.)

 

[Orngog]

I've read the fluff so many times, can anybody quote the section that mentions domes?

 

[Fold]

Domes are mentioned throughout the entire section on how the hive is built. Page 60 and 67 of the LRB are the key pages but if you search for "dome" you'll find tonnes of references to them outside the context of them being ruined or collapsed.

 

[Punktaku]

i always pictured the domes as a ceiling (a dome) over a flat bottom. the could be rounded all the way to the ground, or down to rigid sides (like a honeycomb, an observatory, or a contemporary domed building). it wasn't until this discussion that i considered the possibility of stacked orbs.

 

[Orngog]

You've obviously not seen that "how big is the spire" discussion hosted, I think, at the eastern fringe a while ago...

 

[spafe]

domes as a ceiling (a dome) over a flat bottom. the could be rounded all the way to the ground

The other fun thing to consider... the structure is a round ball, but the floor is flat... the void underneath allows for services, plumbing, water, goods, power, filters, treatment facilites etc etc etc. So lots of different ways to imagine it, and I bet different domes could use different uses too as designs changed over the centeruries of construction.

 

[Punktaku]

could also use all the variants we've imagined. the thing is 10k years old and 25 miles high?

this layer is flat bottomed domes, this layer is from the Hexagonal Era, where construction was literally hive-like. This layer is from the Orb Era. This layer is the Neo-Hex Period. Then the adamantine wall, the houses of the spire are based on cylinders... House Helmwarr is a return to the orbs sitting like a jewel atop the spire. That kind of thing.

 

[Kitcar]

The other fun thing to consider... the structure is a round ball, but the floor is flat... the void underneath allows for services, plumbing, water, goods, power, filters, treatment facilites etc etc etc. So lots of different ways to imagine it, and I bet different domes could use different uses too as designs changed over the centeruries of construction.

The Promethium Sprawl feeds the domes from between. Flat bottoms of the habitats so's we can walk! Dome shaped for strength. Flat floors over multiple domes leaves gaps for the promethium sprawl. How many kits from Armageddon to make a representation of the PS?

 

[spafe]

How many kits from Armageddon to make a representation of the PS

72 billion thousand mega ulta lots...

 

[trollmeat]

My head-canon has the domes as spheres. Smaller domes maybe only split in two with the floor level halfway up to support buildings and structures, and below being filled with tunnels for sewerage / life support / maintenance.

Larger, more affluent / later domes and trading hubs might have many levels built into them, so that the servants and general filthy (yet necessary) citizens might support them.

If the earliest domes had a flat base or not is irrelevant, unless you want to take a dive into the sump to find out.

 

[Tiny]

My head-canon has the domes as spheres.

I wish I had a head cannon.