In the amity I speak of,they intermix and confound themselves one in the other,with so universal a commixture,that they weave out and can no more find the seam that has conjoined them together.
The island of Sri Lanka, separated from India by only 20 miles (32 km) of shallow water, has always been an important hub in the seaborne trade that stitches the lands of the Indian Ocean together.
Phobos is so heavy that we don't need to worry about slowing it down, making it the perfect attachment point for super-tethers just under 6,000km long.
And as construction progresses, prebuilt and preintegrated hardware like airlocks or life support equipment brought from Earth are inserted into the print until finally they're sealed at various connection points.
The idea is that once the plan is in place, banks may need only one main international connection rather than thousands of connections with each partner.