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The Dawn of a New Era in Global Cooperation
The Ancient World had the Pyramids and the Gardens of Babylon, the Modern World had the Colosseum and Taj Mahal. When someday the list is made for the World Wonders of our time, without any doubt, the Kyodo-Taiping-Pacific-Transoceanic-Supercauseway, commonly known as the KyoTai, will be at the top. At nine-thousand eight hundred kilometers in total length, it is the most complicated and most expensive structure ever built, as well as home to one of only two Multi-Universal Resonant Alternate Intelligences [MURAIs] in existence.
Thoughts on This Historic Occasion
The KyoTai ushers in a new era of commerce, communication, and cooperation for a new global order. Within just a few years it will be hard to imagine life before it, especially for those living in the California Republic.
---California Governor Raymond Collosso
So delicate and fine, just a wisp of hair stretched across the across the tortuous seas of the Pacific, it is without question, the most ambitious, most expensive both in dollars spent and lives lost, and most technologically advanced piece of engineering ever constructed. It is a monument to human ingenuity and engineering that physically connects the eastern and western worlds for the first time in the history of mankind.
---Senator W. Proxima, California, Launch Dedication Keynote
And how right they were. People literally rushed to line up for months before the Bridge opened to the general public, anxious to secure their place in history as one of the first people to ride a train to Japan. It was thrilling and unbelievable because it more than signaled a new era of true global peace. All the major powers contributed to the development of the various technologies that needed to be invented in order to make it work, and in return received their own island that could be divvied up and developed any way they wanted as long as certain criteria were met – primarily requirements that strongly favored nature-based tourism & community-based sustainment farming as well as white-box R&D, investment banking & tech development. Those that stood to benefit the most, of course, were the biggest investors – China and the U.S.
---The Sleeping Dragon, by Q’imara Dokan
More than a bridge or a highway it is a series of new-towns, each with its own economy and even in some areas, limited self-government, that work together for the greater good. Some speculate it may one day cohere into an independent state, but it is difficult to imagine any secession plan that would be supported by two, let alone all four controlling interests [U.S., China, Japan, Korea]. Meanwhile, a more pressing, and real concern will test international cooperation regardless. What has been overlooked, or at the very least conveniently forgotten, are the long-term environmental effects of such a massive structure. This is more than just bird sanctuaries we’re talking about here, this thing has changed the entire global weather map and a lot of other countries aren’t too happy about it.
--The Socal Sentinel
Fast Facts
The Longest Bridge in the World
Stretches six thousand miles across the Pacific in sixty-three carefully-calibrated jumps that land on sixty-four bio-diverse islands--each of which has been custom-designed to a different contributory nation’s specifications in return for a minimum donation of services, personal, materials and/or technology to the “host” nations of The United States, Japan, Korea and China.
Revolutionary Carboharmonic Design
While each span of the bridge is an independent structure built to withstand even the most extreme storms, the entire six-thousand mile superstructure works as a single highly tunable unit-- not unlike a violin string with sixty-three frets.
A New Landmass Equivalent in Size to Sumatra
The total footprint of all islands and intermediary supports is 428,500 sq. km. In addition, there is approx. 42,000 sq. km. of newly created reefs and underwater shelfs-- early attempts at creating artificial islands from before Aerocreate was perfected.
Over 1 Trillion Cubic Meters of Aerocrete
At only 5% the weight and 30% the density of concrete, the collected island mass weighs over 125 billion metric tons with an average density 804 kg/m³ (water = 997 kg/m3. Aerocrete's porous design means volumetric displacement is significantly lower than traditional materials, and the resultant contribution to rising ocean levels is within internationally accepted standards of the 2040 protocols.
Eighteen Lanes, No Waiting.
All eighteen tubes are designed to accommodate any kind traffic at a moment’s notice—from ultra-high speed luxury liners to heavy freight and everything in-between. QuickX offramps provide for easy in-out slotting at even the busiest times. ShoulderSlots are also available for the budget-conscious, but additional waivers are required.
100% A.I. Operations Handling
The entire neural network and all subsidiary systems are controlled by GANIP7, a proprietary alternate intelligence owned and maintained by KTPTS ILC.
Why The Bridge To Nowhere?
For those who lived on the islands during the bridge's twenty-five year construction phase, there existed long stretches of unfinished highway ending unceremoniously at steep dropoffs with no land in sight. For many, it inspired feelings of living at the end of the world.