GreenStar Materials would be a firm with a seemingly simple objective; the manufacture of processed industrial materials that would be used by all the other members of the industrial cooperative. But as straightforward as this seems, the nature of it in the context of TMP presents a great technical challenge to this firm. Traditional materials production had been based on an Industrial Age strategy of very large scale, great centralization, and great specialization. It is not unusual today for a single company to dominate the entire production of materials like steel or aluminum for an entire major industrial nation. TMP’s network of communities cannot tolerate such overspecialization. A given isolated community –especially at sea or in space– must be able to cost-effectively produce an ex