The story is set on an artificial orbital colony that recreates an African savannah environment.

The main disadvantage of orbital colonies is lack of materials.

In contrast, orbital colonies can be rotated to provide Earth normal pseudo-gravity in the main living areas.

He had to be on Daedalus, the orbital colony.

This colony is meant to be the largest of the orbital colonies when it is operational in 2052.

In return, some of humanity was moved off-planet to orbital colonies and to a small Mars colony.

"Even our orbital colonies will need to be shielded," Bascal added.

They insist that we need orbital colonies and they refuse to set foot here.

They also have orbital colonies for Space tourists.

An orbital colony could make use of local resources.