Spawnslilhope

I feel like Earth-Moon L1 would be the best option for our station. This lagrange point can serve as a halfway point between Earth and the Moon, allowing not only us but others to possible colonize the moon and make easier supply runs. Not to mention that people who want to "visit" a moon colony would almost "have" to stop at our base 1st, serving as a possible area of revenue (docking fees, refueling fees, cargo fees).

I agree. For what concerns shielding if we concentrate on mining the construction materials from NEOs instead of sending them from Earth we would cut the costs a lot and have much less problems (sending stuff in orbit rather than gathering it directly from space is crazy in my opinion)

I say about 500-2000Km would be great. We can the space debris and junk as parts to build the space station that way it cleans up the mess and reusing the metals instead of wasting then away. It's sounds great but I don't have the idea how it can work but we learn as we move forward

When it comes to building a long term habitation station, building one is incredibly reckless. It represents a single point of failure. That's only clever if you intend on failing. At the sort of distances you're talking in placing it any assistance required is likely to be too long to get there to be useful, in an emergency. However, a collection of stations at about the the same orbital height would be able to offer refuge in the case of critical failures and otherwise be on hand for other eventualities, enough positioned correctly could provide a response time of less than an hour. That's still quite a long time, but there's rural locations on Earth with longer.

Harvesting the resources required to achieve this from the solar system via a network of seed factories would have exponential growth, so wouldn't add a great deal onto the time required to collect the additional mass for the construction of multiple large stations. It also means there's no requirement for compromise on things like raditation sheilding - after a few dozen asteroids have been stripped to nothing, a few tonnes of sillicon dioxide sitting between the pressure hull and the outer hull will be trivial to provide.

The Van Allen's belts are placed from ~1000km to ~6000km (inner belt) and from ~13000km to ~60000km (external belt), so if we want to be protected from them we have to put the station (or the stations) into an orbit between the Earth and the inner belt or between the inner and the external belt, as we can't place anything right into the middle of the belts (too radiation caused by the magnetic and electric fields).

At this point, I think that the preferable place for our station(s) is at an altitude near the 1000km, where the isn't too atmosphere drag and where we are protected from solar wind and cosmic radiation but where the danger from space debris is still considerable.

i believe one of the primary functions of Asgardia having a presence in orbit around Earth is to actively do away with as much of this space junk as possible in a timely manner...

so we can put a hardened structure in the most crowded area as possible being operated by drones to have a maximum effect while controlling such operation remotely from a more unconventional location that is not so prone to random orbital debris. maybe put the control center for this operation at a Lagrangian point and a type of hardened drone carrier in LEO?