Talk:Panchaea/@comment-188.29.165.32-20150925144904/@comment-24729554-20150925153142

That's a really good question... Building it the whole way to the ocean floor might make this possible, but I don't think thats the case here since the average depth of the Arctic is ~ 1 kilometre, and the pit you go down to reach Hyron only appears to be a few hundred metres max. I noticed large tilted pipe structures in the upper portion of the installation; maybe these contain some sort of cables connected to the ocean floor that keep it in place. I would imagine the base of Panchaea would also need support cables for this to prevent it from capsizing though.

I'm not sure what the devs had in mind from an engineering point of view but the game does state that Panchaea needed augmented construction workers for it to be built. This could suggest that they realized that this sort of structure isn't possible using the engineering of today.