Talk:International Space Elevator/@comment-38101723-20190126124954/@comment-38520795-20190214090226

The elevator itself is actually quite insubstatial, consisting of little more than the cables that the transport cars ride up and down. The massive structure sprouting of the ocean is simply a windbreak meant to protect and stabilize the cable as they travel upwards out of the lower atmosphere with its wind turbulence and storms.

During the game the Princess volunteers to disable a power broadcast system, some of the components of which are located at the top of the windbreak at an altitude where the air is too thin to breath.

As for how tall that makes the windbreak. . . Well it wouldn't necessary be Everest tall. Pressure sits would probably be used so that workers wouldn't have to spend extended time acclimating in order to perform routined maintenance.

I still have no idea why she had to parachute.