Love the world you have created. Hemp paper - byproduct of the medical industry. Indeed! I like how you have established a new earth and the robust orion moon colony. I'm trying to imagine what our modern campus architecture would look like a hundred years in the future in a deep space environment. After all, even now our building technology is rapidly changing and affecting the way buildings look and perform here on earth.
Can't wait to see the conflict building up between Arthur and Ardy come to a head. I bet Arthur has highly classified intelligence to hide that Ardy is trying to expose. Great story telling!