THESIS 

WE WIN BY BUILDING ‘MARTIAN CITIES’

The West has entered a period of structural stagnation and geopolitical challenge. The abundant sci-fi future we were promised has never been further away.
Its cities — historically the engines of economic growth and the substrate of its civilisation — are no longer capable of winning the next techno-economic phase, defined by the convergence of the AI and space race.

At the same time, this competition is shifting beyond Earth, where orbital infrastructure and space industrialisation will determine long-term economic and geopolitical advantage.

These are not separate challenges. They are constrained by the same underlying problem: a lack of Western infrastructure capable of dominating this next phase.

ROMULLUS addresses this directly.

We build the infrastructure required for the Moon and Mars and deploy it on Earth first—accelerating the West’s $50 trillion urban economy, revitalising the built environment, and refining these systems ahead of off-world deployment.

In practice, this means:

  1. Replacing existing urban infrastructure with Mars-grade systems. (This has already begun—see orbital internet, autonomous TBMs etc.)

  2. Expanding the urban economy with full-stack ‘Martian Cities’.

Doing this creates a flywheel that upgrades our cities while enabling us to industrialise space faster than our adversaries.

We call this approach: Building Martian cities on Earth, first.