Orbital Habitats or simply Orbitals or Habitats are a variety of human settlements in space that are not confined to the surface of a large planet or moon. Most space colonies were constructed from asteroids or comets from the Asteroid Belt and the Kuiper Belt, the first being mining colonies constructed in the early 2020s. As of 2132 space colonies number in the thousands, from small habitats to the Mexican Orbitals.