Dale met Brad back in the Phoenix Lesser Hall. Together, with some help from Fredricks, they manhandled the dolly into the lock connected to the outside portal near Ishtar. The escaping air when they opened the outer lock assisted in moving the dolly outside, where the sudden loss of gravity made everything easier. Once outside, eMax jumped to the top of the collapsed habitat preening himself.
The Oort habitat was a hemisphere fifteen meters at the base. Unlike the Earth-Moon L2 habitat that was little more than an inflated, thin-skinned atmosphere bubble, the Oort habitat consisted of an outer polymer layer that hardened upon exposure to ultraviolet light—even the faint levels at the outer limits of the Oort Cloud. The inner polymer layer hardened upon extended exposure to oxygen. Like I
