Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27234079-20190413013142/@comment-14909251-20190529222216

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: Not to mention, aside from what 73 said (aerodynamics being taken into account in the design), the most basic steps when designing any sort of structure anywhere are:

1) Making sure the place you're building it on can take it.

2) Making sure the terrain and the structure can safely take far more charges than they are ever expected to receive (it would seriously suck if just landing an airship caused the city to fall down to the earth).

They managed to make a floating city in the first place, they definitely have the brains to at least be careful while adding more things to it, or at the very least have the brains to add more countermeasures for whatever issue shows up. One can only imagine the kind of regulatory red tape that would be required for any major construction in Atlas. No doubt they have a sprawling bureaucracy to deal with all of the difficulties of maintaining a large human settlement on a floating island.