Stratoscraper

A stratoscraper is an extremely tall and continuously inhabited building that enters the boundaries of the stratosphere (as on Earth), with the classification often starting at six kilometers in height. The tallest free-standing stratoscraper is the Empyrean, located in the West American Megasprawl well within what was once the city of Sacramento, California, at a height of twelve kilometers; the tallest stratoscraper of all time is the multitension-supported Hyperion MesoSpire located in Port Bremerton, Hyperion, standing at a height of 22 kilometers and piercing through the stratopause into Hyperion's mesosphere. The term arose in synchrony with the urbanization of worlds such as Hyperion and Tellus, which unlocked new construction materials and methodologies that allowed for structures giant in both height and width.
Earth tops the charts within Human space for the most amount of stratoscrapers (in the hundreds of thousands), followed by Hyperion with only a few hundred less.
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