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Originally Posted by Father Fletch
I wonder why you wanted to come up with a hexagonal or octagonal design, other than they look cool?
Digging a frakking big square or rectangular hole is commonplace and known and "easy" for countless construction firms. Placing ISO/ConEx containers therein and covering them with the fill dirt again, a basic construction job.
If you wanted to be all fancy you could lay in a conventional concrete slab after leveling the hole, and place your containers on top of that. Cover with dirt, etc.
Lather, Rinse, Repeat
While an octagon or hexagon isn't incredibly difficult, square and rectangles are likely cheaper and perhaps faster to build with less questions asked by the locals.
As for construction materials like gravel and sand they could be used as some of the fill material on the sides or banked areas around the container cache. There is a map of their location relative to the entry to the cache and their removal wouldn't disrupt the integrity of the cache. Even in 2-5 years those would be expected to be completely overgrown.
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I put it in this design for one reason.. That all of the containers can be accessed at one time, and that you wouldn't need equipment to pull them out if they were stacked on each other.
More data came in with ideas of bulk supplies being placed in pits, thus the pits would be placed in between the spokes of the supply cache complex of the spokes. Thus you dig one big hole, place the cargo containers around the pre-fab central shaft. Once the containers have been placed you would the place the specially designed 'pits' full of bulk construction equipment (bricks, sand and the like) in between the container spokes and then fill it all back in. The job can take a few days.
While someone finding something like this going on, is greater... we haven't been talking about the fact that boltholes getting put into place can be just as easily stumbled across.
It's why i was using the Georgia Guidepost monument as an example of a place that the Project can set up as a rally point, or cover for a facility, ect.