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Chapter 5: Kraken Shore

A town of about 320 people on the shore of a methane sea.

What it shows. The shoreline, the town's layout, the barge and the pad.

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From the Garden Hall's gallery: the utilities vault and the launch pad's floodlight masts in the haze. — Kraken Shore From the Garden Hall's gallery: the utilities vault and the launch pad's floodlight masts in the haze.

The engineering behind it

Chemistry
Kraken Mare and Titan's seas
Kraken Mare is a sea of liquid hydrocarbon at least 400,000 km² across, and Kraken Shore stands on the one coast where Cassini measured how deep it is.
Nuclear
Reactors and heat on Titan
Two small modular reactors give Kraken Shore its electricity and its heat, because the Sun at Saturn is about a hundred times fainter than at Earth.
System
Titan's atmosphere and flight
Titan's air is 4.4 times denser than Earth's and its gravity is 0.138 g, so an 8-tonne rotorcraft hovers on 39.4 kW where Earth would demand 1,616 kW.