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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SKyOdin" data-source="post: 5202483" data-attributes="member: 57939">Space Elevators are far too superior of a means of getting goods into space over traditional rockets for people to not try building them in a setting like yours. I don't think them being a target for attack is too big of an issue. For one thing, a space elevator is very, very big. Even more importantly, few people would have much to gain from destroying one. It would be much more effective for someone to try seizing it in order to control the transportation of goods from the surface to space. If someone did want to destroy a space elevator, it would be more for the purpose of dropping its immense mass on the planet and causing mass devastation than simply cutting off supplies and transportation.I would actually recommend having an orbital elevator simply to have the question of "who controls it?" being an important political issue.There are quite a few space elevator designs out there. I am mostly familiar with the designs from anime series like Gundam 00 and Zone of the Enders, but there are probably more I haven't seen.EDIT: BTW, does your setting just have people living planetside, or does it have orbiting space colonies as well?</blockquote>