User blog comment:Aghostintheboat/The Official Roleplay Room/@comment-11135771-20141229202948/@comment-11135771-20141230204852

Okay, that's a bit more reasonable. Although, still remember that the vent is 80km in diameter. That's... a lot. The steam coming up from it means that you can't see across to the other side, and to just get to the other end of your base you'd have to be using helicopters or maybe even airplanes. It is literally small country-sized; if it was actual ground instead of a hole, you could put multiple cities on it quite comfortably. So yeah, just a few things to keep in mind. A base around the edge of the vent is not a little outpost; it's a massive undertaking and Israel will be pouring tons of resources into it, especially to get it built so quickly. The base would literally be larger than any city on earth currently, even if it only extended a few hundred metres back from the edge.