Wow! Elon Musk, famous for his work with electric cars and home storage batteries, has been reading Tales of the Terran Diaspora and has decided to develop one of the features in the second story in the real world.
Lol He hasn't really but the hyperloop transportation system he's been talking about recently is strikingly similar to the vac trains described Mparntwe.
Readers will remember the vacuum tunnels and the magnetic-levitation trains in the story and here's a Wiki link explaining the hyperloop idea
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop
Blog: https://diasporatales.net