The Autonomous Industrialization of Cislunar and Planetary Mega-Structures

The Autonomous Industrialization of Cislunar and Planetary Mega-Structures refers to the systemic transition in deep space operations from resource extraction limited by Earth supply chains to fully closed-loop, self-sustaining manufacturing and construction processes utilizing local celestial body materials. This process mandates that all major infrastructure—including power grids, habitat modules, orbital factories, and interplanetary transport nodes—must be fabricated entirely *in situ* using regolith, volatiles, solar energy gradients, and captured elemental resources (e.g., lunar anorthosite, asteroidal metals). The core mechanism is the deployment of sophisticated, highly integrated robotic manufacturing networks capable of managing material processing from raw bulk state to complex structural components without human oversight or external terrestrial logistical support.