And I was quite clearly talking about building Shala at the same time as Columbia, to supply Columbia. So what are you even waffling on about?
...Why would we do that? That sounds very silly. We already have tens if not hundreds of thousands of people working in space and we ship up all their food just fine. Why would we suddenly have "and you must build the farms in space to feed
these particular space people" as a requirement just because the people in
Columbia have no particular intention of leaving?
Besides,
Shala is so big it produces +Food on a noticeable level
compared to GDI's overall agricultural production. I struggle to articulate just how much food that is. But even +1 Food is a
lot more than everyone in orbit can plausibly eat at once, unless I am grossly overestimating our space workforce or grossly underestimating just how tiny our Agriculture projects are in scope.
Even if you're right, that's just a reason to complete
Shala up through Phase 2 or so.
And multiply that by 8 Bay slots... (Station Bay was incorporated into the previous Station completion dates.)
...What are you even talking about? Eight bay slots? Are you talking about it somehow being obligatory to build bays on
Shala and
Columbia in the present plan? Or to build extra stations corresponding to the existing
Enterprise bays immediately after
Shala and
Columbia, if we even can?
I... I really have a hard time understanding what you think is happening, or ought to happen.
Finishing all of the Bays is going to be difficult, though manageable.
Orbital AEVAs will help considerably. More caffeine would help somewhat.
We should consider whether we want all the Columbia and Shala Bays up or if developing the moon/asteroids/new Columbia style orbtial habs should take priority.
I think we're going to have to defer that decision until we've seen what those bays
do. It is entirely reasonable for us to postpone them until 2066 or later unless we have an excellent reason to think they meet critical needs.
I'm for whatever gets us the most political support to spend on Mad Science...
We'll see. It's quite possible that we'll be so well off for Political Support that we have more of it than even Seo can burn through. Then again, maybe not.
Oh, and Inferno Gel. That also costs political support, and would be great for new specialist railgun rounds.
Railgun rounds tend to have small caliber and do not deliver large amounts of material. For incendiary weapons, you typically want large-diameter shells delivering a lot of burning material over a wide area. This suits our existing chemical-fired artillery shells and rockets much better.
No Inferno Gel. Regular rail gun rounds work fine on Gana, we don't need to shoot off War Crime Guns.
Actually I gather we're having some trouble with regular railgun rounds, at least on the scale of the creatures in question (that is, a tank-caliber railgun fired at a horse-sized target still obliterates it, but that's exactly what you'd expect).
However, I think the solution is beehive/flechette rounds, not incendiaries.
