My immediate thoughts!<br/><br/><strong>1) Shelter.</strong>I'd strongly advice option C, the transparent cubes. It's the most sci-fi-y, and it's thematically consistent; the prisoners do not get much privacy and don't get to hide things away in clothes or homes. Everything's transparent.<br/><br/><strong>The suits.</strong>Smart nanotech seems cool!<br/><br/><strong>Mining equipment.</strong>How about a mix of the two options? There's a limited amount of high-tech equipment, enough for maybe a small percentage of the prisoners to use. The vast majority has to use the primitive picks and shovels. This will allow for at least some effective mining for the Empire, while at the same time keeping most of the bitches working hard -- it's a punishment, after all. The access to the high-tech equipment can also be a nice point of conflict; obviously that equipment is a privilege that there's going to be a lot of competition for...<br/><br/>