Danica Sprits was always looking up. It’s not that she was in love with the sky or the stars. She simply was not happy in her young life on the ground in Brooklyn. She had no real reason to be unhappy about it. Her parents owned and operated a small family restaurant, so she was never hungry. The restaurant did well enough that the family never really wanted for anything (not that she got everything she wanted). Between school and home, she was never bored. She was often tasked to work in the restaurant's kitchen after school – usually peeling vegetables or washing dishes. She was an outstanding student in school and even enjoyed most of the work assigned. But she still kept looking up. She was hoping for a glimpse of the Pleiades. It was the largest endeavor ever undertaken by humankind. A space station orbiting high above the globe. When completed, seven massive rings – one for each of the seven biomes on Earth, spinning to imitate Earth normal gravity – would be home to as many as 8000 people.