Habitat Location as a Focus?

[Drashner1]

-habitat swarms also kind of create an inversion of the 'one environment planet' trope by making a collection of 'one environment habitats'  that also happen to be reachable within space-opera-reasonable amounts of time. Travel from "Not-Hoth", the snow orbital to "not-Tatooine", the desert orbital in a physics-accurate week-month of travel.

Even less travel than that potentially. You could fit vast numbers of habitats (thousands or more) into the Earth-Moon volume or even just one of the Lagrange points. So your ice hab and desert hab could be within a few hundred to a few thousand km of each other and could be reached in no more than a matter of hours.

Todd