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BUTTRESSUBIQUITOUS DOWNLINK INFRASTRUCTURE FOR PHYSICAL AI & SATELLITES.
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ROMULLUS is building the world’s first vertically integrated network of spaceport cities. This network will buttress Western-aligned civilisation and become the foundation of the multi-planetary economy.
STATUS QUONEW ECONOMIC ACTORS NEED NEW INFRASTRUCURE
ROMULLUS is building the world’s first vertically integrated network of spaceport cities. This network will buttress Western-aligned civilisation and become the foundation of the multi-planetary economy.
USE CASESA single INFRASTRUCTURE layer
for every modality
NO HARDWARE ADAPTATION REQUIRED
Retrofit constellations with a software upload. Serve more regions and more customers without launching new satellites.
01 | EARTH OBSERVATION
>10× more imagery downlinked
Log compact, ML-ready representations and remove storage constraints. Run inference and analytics faster on compressed.
02 | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Richer edge-case capture
Enable real-time high-definition video feeds for decision-making and remote operations.
03 | ROBOTICS
Sensor data, transmitted faster
Reduce latency for safer, more precise operations. Improve range and signal quality while preserving analytical detail.
04 | DRONES
HD mission data in real time
Reduce latency for safer, more precise operations. Improve range and signal quality while preserving analytical detail.
05 | ORBITAL DATA CENTRES
HD mission data in real time
Reduce latency for safer, more precise operations. Improve range and signal quality while preserving analytical detail.
06 | OFF-WORLD AUTONOMY
HD mission data in real time02 | INDUSTRIAL INFRA
Vertically Integrated for Space Industrialisation
FAST, ABUNDANT FIRM POWER
Our power infrastructure is built from the ground up as a modular, decentralised system. Instead of relying on a single, slow, centralised grid connection, power generation, transmission and distribution scale in parallel with industrial deployment. New capacity can be added incrementally, enabling megawatts to become gigawatts without multi-year delays. Permitting and interconnection are structured to align with demonstrated industrial demand (not politics), ensuring power availability scales at the pace required by tenants.
The electrical backbone is designed around modern high-voltage and direct-current distribution, where appropriate, improving efficiency and reducing transmission and conversion losses by 5–50%, depending on distance and application. This architecture also reduces reliance on large, slow-to-deploy transformers, improving overall system efficiency, reliability, and speed of deployment.
This architecture supports a range of firm energy sources and strategies, including behind-the-meter, next-generation small modular reactors, district heating and cooling, large-scale solar + storage, and other dispatchable generation, ensuring continuous, reliable power for compute, manufacturing, launch consummables and launch operations.
SCALE AFFORDABLY WITHOUT CONSTRAINT
High Frontier Zones (HFZs) are designed as compute-abundant environments for both digital and physical AI, built on the BUTTRESS platform’s integrated compute, power, and thermal recycling architecture. Compute infrastructure is co-deployed with district heating and cooling systems, allowing waste heat from high-density processors to be captured and reused productively. This combined approach materially reduces net energy cost per inference and training workload, while enabling sustained high-density compute deployment without the thermal and grid constraints that limit conventional data centres.
HFZs provide ubiquitous, low-latency compute access via a city-scale mesh network, enabling frictionless off-load, storage, and processing of operational data from autonomous systems, robotics, and industrial processes. This architecture supports continuous learning, real-time coordination, and high-throughput industrial automation, making HFZs an ideal environment for the deployment and development of digital AI, physical AI, robotics, and AI-led manufacturing. As global AI infrastructure demand is projected to exceed hundreds of gigawatts of installed capacity over the coming decades, access to abundant, low-cost, dispatchable compute and energy will become a primary determinant of industrial competitiveness.
In addition to BUTTRESS-operated infrastructure, HFZs provide a purpose-built regulatory, energy, and industrial environment optimised for third-party AI infrastructure deployment. Power, cooling, land use, and connectivity are structured to support rapid deployment of hyperscale and specialised compute facilities. AI systems are integrated into all layers of HFZ operation, from construction and infrastructure management to industrial coordination, logistics, and agentic economic activity.
GW-SCALE INFRA FOR PHYSICAL + DIGITAL AI
INTELLIGENCE TOO CHEAP TO METER
The economic infrastructure of High Frontier Zones (HFZs) is engineered to support agentic, always-on economic activity between humans, companies, and AI agents. Allowing AI agents to transact directly with infrastructure, markets, and each other without manual intervention. This enables economic throughput at machine speed, rather than human administrative speed.
HFZs support the tokenisation of real-world assets, including energy infrastructure, compute capacity, land, and industrial equipment, enabling fractional ownership, automated settlement, and increased capital efficiency. Jurisdictions such as Bermuda are actively developing regulated digital asset frameworks in partnership with firms including Circle and Coinbase, enabling licensed stablecoin issuance, tokenised assets, and on-chain settlement within a regulated financial system.
Economic infrastructure within HFZs is also designed to support the creation, incorporation, and operation of AI-native companies, including autonomous entities capable of executing contracts, managing resources, and conducting commercial activity.
By enabling programmable, real-time economic coordination across infrastructure, compute, and industry, HFZs create one of the fastest and most capital-efficient economic environments globally. This architecture also provides a natural economic foundation for off-world industrial systems, where autonomous agents, infrastructure, and markets must operate continuously and transact independently across planetary and orbital environments.
SUB-MARTIAL DEFENCE TECH
MODERN THREATS NEED A MODERN RESPONSE03 | HIGH-FRONTIER LIVING
THE BEST OF THE BEST CITIES IN ONE PLACE.
LIVINGFRONTIER FAMILIES FIRST
Spaceport Cities are designed around a simple principle: the long-term success of a civilisation depends on its ability to form, raise, and launch capable families.
Drawing on the research in Urban Healthonomics, we recognise that urban form shapes health, productivity, and economic performance. Cities that are stressful, unaffordable, and socially fragmented (like many in the West) struggle to sustain family life. Cities that are beautiful, walkable, and high-trust compound across generations.
Frontier Families First means designing for the full arc of life:
The conditions for young professionals to meet, partner, and build a future.
Healthy, affordable homes embedded in walkable neighbourhoods where children can move independently and safely.
Schools, parks, and public spaces that foster resilience and social cohesion.
Economic opportunity so that when children fly the nest, they can build, invent, and thrive without leaving.
A true frontier city can’t just be a place of technological acceleration. It must be a place where the next generation is stronger, healthier, and more capable than the last.
Our thoughts on the broader governance quesion.
The economic infrastructure of High Frontier Zones (HFZs) is engineered to support agentic, always-on economic activity between humans, companies, and AI agents. Allowing AI agents to transact directly with infrastructure, markets, and each other without manual intervention. This enables economic throughput at machine speed, rather than human administrative speed.
HFZs support the tokenisation of real-world assets, including energy infrastructure, compute capacity, land, and industrial equipment, enabling fractional ownership, automated settlement, and increased capital efficiency. Jurisdictions such as Bermuda are actively developing regulated digital asset frameworks in partnership with firms including Circle and Coinbase, enabling licensed stablecoin issuance, tokenised assets, and on-chain settlement within a regulated financial system.
Economic infrastructure within HFZs is also designed to support the creation, incorporation, and operation of AI-native companies, including autonomous entities capable of executing contracts, managing resources, and conducting commercial activity.
By enabling programmable, real-time economic coordination across infrastructure, compute, and industry, HFZs create one of the fastest and most capital-efficient economic environments globally. This architecture also provides a natural economic foundation for off-world industrial systems, where autonomous agents, infrastructure, and markets must operate continuously and transact independently across planetary and orbital environments.
HIGH-TRUST OF TOKYO
TRANSACT AT THE SPEED OF THOUGHTThe economic infrastructure of High Frontier Zones (HFZs) is engineered to support agentic, always-on economic activity between humans, companies, and AI agents. Allowing AI agents to transact directly with infrastructure, markets, and each other without manual intervention. This enables economic throughput at machine speed, rather than human administrative speed.
HFZs support the tokenisation of real-world assets, including energy infrastructure, compute capacity, land, and industrial equipment, enabling fractional ownership, automated settlement, and increased capital efficiency. Jurisdictions such as Bermuda are actively developing regulated digital asset frameworks in partnership with firms including Circle and Coinbase, enabling licensed stablecoin issuance, tokenised assets, and on-chain settlement within a regulated financial system.
Economic infrastructure within HFZs is also designed to support the creation, incorporation, and operation of AI-native companies, including autonomous entities capable of executing contracts, managing resources, and conducting commercial activity.
By enabling programmable, real-time economic coordination across infrastructure, compute, and industry, HFZs create one of the fastest and most capital-efficient economic environments globally. This architecture also provides a natural economic foundation for off-world industrial systems, where autonomous agents, infrastructure, and markets must operate continuously and transact independently across planetary and orbital environments.
AGENTIC ONCHAIN ECONOMY
TRANSACT AT THE SPEED OF THOUGHT'At the edges…where the machine is relatively impotent and the individual is strong, is to be found an ennobling and invigorating stimulus for our youth, saving them alike from the corroding ease and the morbid excitements of Western civilization.’
Lord Curzon, Fmr Viceroy of British India, FRONTIERS (RomaneS Lecture), Oxford, 1907