Attempting to Fulfill the Plan: GDI Edition

[BOTcommander]

SCEDQuest Q3 2057 Results

Facilities
Tanegashima Space Center (Stage 3) 145/400
Tanegashima makes comparatively little progress, with a shipment of metal oxide 3D printers being delayed due to shipping problems. Aside from that the hull manufacturing hall makes good problems, with the basic cleanroom assemblies progressing as planned.
Moon Base
A further round of lunar exploration brings the outpost up to basic functionality. A minimum of experiments with biological samples, local resource utilisation and technologies can be done on site. For a larger local complement of scientists and engineers, including those with little to no official astronaut training, further facilities will need to be constructed.

Development
Pathfinder Lander Development 277/250
The final version of the Pathfinder Lander is a very large box that can barely fit in the ship's Cargo hold. Largely made of empty space for specifically designed cargo boxes, it can land on Mars, and by proxy every other body aside from Earth and Venus, fully loaded and return into orbit with 8 astronauts on one loading of fuel. The Landers can either be picked up by Pathfinder again or just resupplied in orbit with additional cargo meant for the surface.

Space Command Mission Planning
Mission: Orbital Scan - Mercury 94/50
Mercury is an uninteresting planet for orbital scans. With an orbital period almost as long as his year, its surface is a sun scorched wasteland with a day temperature of 420°C and a night temperature of -170°C. As early bases will likely only be possible in pole craters, scanning will focus on the polar regions especially with an additional few overpasses.

Mission: Surface Exploration - Venus 204/150
Venus surface is unsuited for the Opportunity rover model. The heat, pressure and acidity of the atmosphere would kill the on board electronics in mere minutes. All three hurdles will require unique solutions to overcome, with many different rover models, from massive nuclear powered ones to small single-use probes, and many different protection methods, like coating the entire rover in platinum or gold, suggested.


SCEDQuest Q4 2057+Q1 2058

This Side Quest was allowed by Ithillid and is supposed to be fun. Things happening in SCEDQuest will be affected by the main one, but unless Ithillid says otherwise it is semi canon (I think).

Budget: 180 Capital + 58 Capital Reserve
Industry Points: 100 IP because double turn
Earth Orbit Launch Capacity: 160 Space because double turn
Pathfinder Time: 180 Days because double turn
Manned Missions: 4 free slots because double turn

Facilities:
[]Tanegashima Space Center (Stage 3)
With the G shuttle and Gargarin station, SCED already has two projects that have brought their current manufacturing capability to their limits. The third phase of Tanagashima will be a large-scale manufacturing complex to easily produce hull parts for such projects.
(20 Capital per Die 145/400)(+20 IP)

[]New Johnson Training Center (Stage 2)
With the pool of qualified astronaut candidates thinning, SCED looks at more specialised personnel to bolster their ranks. Qualifications to become an Astrotech are still fairly high and require the right training and preparation facilities.
(25 Capital per Die 80/200)(Allows 1 additional Manned or Research Mission to be active at the same time)(Current Limit: 3)

[]Gagarin Station (Stage 2)
While the base station is in orbit, it is not much more than the main pillar. A small side tube to provide basic service facilities for the Pathfinder is the next step in the station construction plan.
(0/3 Gagarin Station Parts; 10 Launch Cap, 5C and 10 IP per Part)(-1 Pathfinder maintenance time)

[]Harper Spaceport (Phase 1)
While many of the SCED's missions are now solar system wide, they still require launching cargo and materials from Earth into space.
(15 Capital per Die 0/100)(+10 Launch Cap)

Planetary Bases:
[]Advanced Lunar Base Stage 1
Luna is now a barebones research outpost. It needs to be extended massively in order to fully transform it into a proper research station, able to test the newest technologies in lunar colonisation and construction.
(0/5 Facilities; 5C, 5 Launch Cap and 5 IP per Facility)(-1 Capital per Turn)


Development (10 Dice) +20
[ ]Surface Exploration EVA Development 0/500 (2C/Die)
Remote controlled rovers suffer from the, over interstellar and interplanetary distances, slow speed of light. It takes about 5 to 20 minutes for a message to travel between earth and mars. Surface missions even further out will require local rover autonomy to some extent. The EVA unit will need to navigate, take samples and recognize when a problem needs a solution from earth, on its own. General reluctance in regards to autonomous vehicles means that GDI has limited knowledge of such use cases compared to other AI applications, making the creation of such an EVA more difficult.

[]Small Scale Nuclear Reactor Development 0/100 0/5IP (5C/Die+2IP/Die)
GDI already has great experience in using small scale nuclear power for a variety of applications. To fit into SCED's modular part strategy they need to redesign some of the system however.

[]Advanced Lunar Base Stage 0/400(5C/Die+2IP/Die)
As a technological exercise and as a proof of concept, much of the lunar research outpost will be built from local resources. Doing so however will require researching the technologies required to do so: from winning metals and oxygen from regolith to generating oxygen and food from plants. (Required for Advanced Outpost Stage II)

[]Venus Rover Prototyping 0/250 (5C/Die+5IP/Die)
Venus is due to its high pressures and temperatures a bad place for conventional electronics, as such more niche and exotic options to explore its surface are required.

[]Reusable Probes 0/200 (5C/Die+5IP/Die)
Pathfinder opens up an interesting new possibility. Higher quality scanning probes with their own maneuvering capability to be put on their scan orbit and later collected again. These probes would require a massive overhaul of the Hermes design, but cut down on building one time mission pieces.

Space Command Mission Planning (6 Dice) +5
[ ]Mars Landing Mission Addendum: Return sample of transuranics 0/50

[]Mission: Orbital Scan (Write-in) (for example: Luna, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter) (Requires one Die)

[]Mission: Surface Exploration (Write-in) 0/200
-Ceres 0/150

[]Mission: Manned Landing (Write-in) 0/500

[]Mission: Research Base (Write-in) 0/1000
-Mars 0/600

Missions
Total Pathfinder Time: 180 days

Mercury
[]Orbital Scan-Mercury
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap, 1 free Manned Mission slot, 14 Pathfinder days)

Venus
[]Rover Delivery-Venus
(Required for activation: Venus Rover Prototyping)

Luna
[]Pardus Mission-Luna
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Manned Mission)
-[](Write-in Location)(max 2 per Turn)

Mars
[]Rover Delivery-Mars
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Launch Cap per Location, 1 Manned Mission, 14 Pathfinder days)
-[](Write-in Location)

[]Manned Mars Landing
(Required for activation: 30IP, 15 Capital, 20 Launch Cap, 1 Manned Mission, 14 Pathfinder days)

Jupiter
[]Observation Probe-Jupiter
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap, 1 Manned Mission, 25 Pathfinder days)


Mission Tracker!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YAhLAoy0BTHB1CPYHeDffyDNwkrM6_dy7u0PL4yZ8_E/edit?usp=sharing

To Launch Missions, it must be "Ready for Launch" in the mission tracker and the requirements must be fulfilled.

 

[Jakub1228]

Zone operations command FOB quest
Q3 2058

Introduction
This quest will be mainly be about a Zonecom base located in a redzone. In this quest you will be the designated commanding officer of this maybe. The mechanicks are an modified plan quest. You may choose to make your own character or have the character be made by the qm.

[ ] Player designed character

[ ] QM designed character

Political Support 30

Tiberium Spread
Yellow 5%
Red 95%

Current Issues
Housing: limit surplus
Energy: neutral
Logistics: limited shortage
Health: shortage
Maintenace: shortage

Local Tiberium Processing Capacity 300/600

Resources 510
Free dice 3


No plan Goals yet.

Infrastructure 7 dice
[ ]Hardened Arcology Barracks (Phase one)
Building enough housing for staff is vital, but the standard GDI prefabs for RZ ops are cramped and offer little amenities. ZOCOM field engineers have pondered about using Yellow Zone Arcologies hardened against red zone environments. While quite comfortable for its inhabitants it is highly expensive, hard to build and politically difficult to sell with how many resources such a project would require.
(0/5300 progress 80 resources per die) (+++++ housing, + power, -15 PS, +++Health)

[ ]Bunker Barracks (Phase one)
A far more reasonable alternative to the archologies: less expensive and massive in scope and less comfortable. The standard GDI RZ barrack prefab entails constructing above ground with a quite sizeable underground section made out of reinforced concrete buried several meters underground, consisting of a number of dorms each with 6 double beds with its own hygiene unit.
(0/450 progress 20 resources per die) (++ Housing, - power +Health )

[ ]Landing strip (Phase one)
With logistics lagging behind, the construction of two landing strips is required. Additional to the strip built from Tiberium resistant concrete, the project seeks to adds refueling- and a maintenance-depots to service both stationed and visiting aircraft.
(0/800 20 resources per die) (++Logistics, +Maintenance, -Power)

[-] Rail link (Phase one)
Establishing a rail link toward the Mediterranean Sea would soundly improve logistics but the current military situation makes nearly impossible to guard it.

[ ] Power plants (Phase one)
Energy is vital to a modern civilization it powers our homes, cools down our food, cooks our food and makes connection with others possible over great distances so it only follows that it is vitally important to modern GDI operations. Constructing a new nuclear power plant should provide enough power for the foreseeable future, but it needs to be guarded against Nod incursions. Most of the fuel can be locally sourced from Tiberium and so will not tax logistics so much.
(0/400 progress 15 resources per die) (++++Energy)

[ ] Helipad (Phase one)
This building allows for landing, refueling, rearming of orcas
0/110 progress 4 resources per die

Industry and Medical 2 dice

[ ] Weapons factory
This structure is the beating hearth of every GDI base from creating ammo to creating replacement parts, to refurbishing vehicles. It is quite a large project but undoubtably worth it due to reducing the strain on logistics with manufacturing and reducing the logistics cost of a repair facility.
(0/500 20 resources per die) (-Power, +Logistics, reduces costs of several projects)

[ ]Repair facility (phase one)
Important facility to reduce wastage of resources and equipment, this facility can take any GDI vehicle and make it seem like it came brand new from a factory
(0/300 progress 10 resources per die) (++++Maintenance, --Power ---Logistics (-Logistics if the weapons factory is finished before the repair facility))

[ ] Basic clinic
For now even minor injuries need to be airlifted into a blue zone hospital or clinic. This project aims to reduce this via constructing a basic clinic to treat minor injuries and some easy to treat diseases.
0/210 progress (-power, ++Health) (Free project resource wise due to zone command interest)

Tiberium 4 dice

[ ]Establish Tiberium Spikes (phase one)
Underground Tiberium will always be a threat to our base let us mitigate this danger by building multiple Tiberium spikes to mine out the Tiberium before it can become a threat. This will be a step to fulfilling our mandate and can fund more efforts to resist this alien menace.
0/1200 40 resources per die (-Logistics, RpT +120)

[ ]Red Zone Tiberium harvesting (stage 1)
With redzone further encroaching on our FOB trimming them down is going to be a major priority in the upcoming plan. Intensification of red zone harvesting is going to be quite expensive due to the specialized requirements of this endeavor. More storage silos will need to be created, more harvesters rolled out, and ever greater logistics will be required
0/400 progress 15 resources per die (--Logistics –Maintenace)

[ ] Mining expeditons into the red zone
With ever increasing demand of the GDI treasury for resources a new wave of expeditions must launched into the red zones to excavate tiberium. This would entail ordering and operation of more harvesters and their escorts due to possible nod aggression. Further phases would require a series of small outposts and watch towers.
0/1200 progress +125 RpT (--Logitics, -Mainteance,)

 

[BOTcommander]

SCEDQuest Q4 2057+Q1 2058 Results

Tanegashima Space Center (Stage 3) 317/400
Progress on the hull manufacturing centre continues to be made, but without another infusion of funds next quarter the site won't be able to begin operations. Sourcing the right radiation, corrosion, and heat-resistant alloys continues to be a major issue holding up completion.

New Johnson Training Center (Stage 2) 268/200
Following a major round of investment, the Astrotech program finally gets going. With the completion of the maintenance cage for Pathfinder, the first round of candidates are made up of engineers that specialise in various fields important for the smooth operation of both Gagarin station and the Gdrive ship. Training has progressed smoothly so far, with the first round of candidates ready at the end of March.

Gagarin Station Stage II
SCED begins to quickly and efficiently manufacture the parts for the Pathfinder cage of Gagarin station, sending them up and mounting them next to the central spire. From here on, mechanical arms on rails can access the vessel from all sides for maintenance and refitting purposes,in theory at least. The truth is that Gagarin will require additional upgrades and facilities before the station can be used as an effective hub for scientific exploration of the solar system.

Surface Exploration EVA Development 92/500
Small Scale Nuclear Reactor Development 52/100

Venus Rover Prototyping 216/250 NAT 1
SCED's prototyping of electrical and mechanical components that can survive the extreme conditions of the Venusian atmosphere took a major hit this quarter, when the off-world pressure chamber had a leak and flooded the laboratory with an explosive release of 450°C hot carbon dioxide. Luckily nobody was hurt, but before testing can resume the chamber needs to be rebuilt. (Locked for one turn)

Reusable Probes 231/200
Mechanically, modifying the Hermes probes into something that can be picked up again by Pathfinder and reused was not that hard, as the standard model already contains enough delta-V to get out of medium earth orbit to the moon. The bigger problem was figuring out what new options this would enable. Hermes probes are limited in how much information they can transfer by the power of their antennas, with shorter ranges the bandwidth can be increased drastically, which enables sensors that can deliver more data points per second, which require more power but the G drive can handle putting in heavier batteries. In the end the Hermes II resembles more a Space Command surveillance satellite in terms of features and sensor equipment than it does Hermes I.

Mission: Surface Exploration Ceres 44/150
Mars Landing Mission Addendum: Return sample of transuranics 30/50

Mission: Orbital Scan Saturn Minor moons+rings 1 die
Mission: Orbital Scan Uranus Main Body 1 die
Mission: Orbital Scan Neptune's Moon Triton 1 die
Mission: Orbital Scan Pluto 1 die

no, this is a too random collection of items that hurts my soul

Mission: Orbital Scan Jupiter Minor moons+rings 1 die
Jupiter has a system of faint planetary rings. These rings were the third ring system to be discovered in the Solar System, after those of Saturn and Uranus. The main ring was discovered in 1979 by the Voyager 1 space probe and the system was more thoroughly investigated in the 1990s by the Galileo orbiter. Far more interesting for SCED are Jupiter's minor moons, the larger of which include Amalthea, Himalia and Thebe, which are most likely C-type asteroids from previous observations.

Mission: Orbital Scan Jupiter Moon Callisto 1 die
Callisto, is the second-largest moon of Jupiter. It is the third-largest moon in the Solar System after Ganymede and Titan. Callisto was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei. At 4821 km in diameter, Callisto has about 99% the diameter of the planet Mercury but only about a third of its mass. Callisto's rotation is tidally locked to its orbit around Jupiter, so that the same hemisphere always faces inward. Because of this, there is a sub-Jovian point on Callisto's surface, from which Jupiter would appear to hang directly overhead.

Callisto is composed of approximately equal amounts of rock and ice, with a density of about 1.83 g/cm3, the lowest density and surface gravity of Jupiter's major moons. Compounds detected spectroscopically on the surface include water ice, carbon dioxide, silicates, and organic compounds.

Mission: Orbital Scan Jupiter Moon Ganymede 1 die
Ganymede is the largest and most massive of the Solar System's moons. It has a diameter of 5,268 km, making it 26% larger than the planet Mercury by volume, although it is only 45% as massive. Possessing a metallic core, it has the lowest moment of inertia factor of any solid body in the Solar System and is the only moon known to have a magnetic field.

Ganymede is composed of approximately equal amounts of silicate rock and water. It is a fully differentiated body with an iron-rich, liquid core, and an internal ocean that may contain more water than all of Earth's oceans combined.

Mission: Orbital Scan Jupiter Moon Europa 1 die
Europa is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter. Europa was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei. Slightly smaller than Earth's Moon, Europa is primarily made of silicate rock and has a water-ice crust and probably an iron–nickel core. It has a very thin atmosphere, composed primarily of oxygen. Its surface is striated by cracks and streaks, but craters are relatively few. In addition to Earth-bound telescope observations, Europa has been examined by a succession of space-probe flybys, the first occurring in the early 1970s.

Europa has the smoothest surface of any known solid object in the Solar System. The apparent youth and smoothness of the surface have led to the hypothesis that a water ocean exists beneath the surface, which could conceivably harbor extraterrestrial life.

Missions:
This quarter saw an important milestone broken three times. First, when the crew of the Pathfinder left the Earth Luna system for a rover delivery to Mars, it broke the longstanding record distance of four hundred thousand kilometers from earth's surface held by James Lovell, Fred Haise, and John Swigert. The event garnered an small furor of attention, both during launch and 5 days later, when the crew, which included several members of SCED's pardus missions, also known as the second first moon landing, became the first people in orbit around another planet. Mars was followed by a probe delivery to Mercury, breaking the distance record again and by Jupiter, which broke the record again when Pathfinder reached 680 million kilometers or 38 light minutes away from home, a tiny boat of courageous explorers drifting in the vast ocean of space.

Jupiter was of particular interest to SCED scientists as it allowed them to test a hypothesis regarding the workings of the G drive: despite operating on alien principles with behavior often at odds with humanity's existing understanding of physics, the reverse-engineering teams nonetheless held out hope that the G drive would respond to the curvature of spacetime non-exotically. All along the Pathfinder's journey, the ship has broadcasted not only traditional radio communications, but also a specially calibrated broadband signal designed to maximize the chances of noticing any potential irregularities. As a whole, the signal blueshifted as expected. At a speed of 3920 kilometers per second relative to earth, the Pathfinders Gdrive only induced an acceleration relative to observers in High Earth Orbit of 99.99145% the expected value, in accordance with special relativistic time dilation, suggesting that parts of the theory of relativity are still applicable to its workings.

SCEDQuest Q2 2058

This Side Quest was allowed by Ithillid and is supposed to be fun. Things happening in SCEDQuest will be affected by the main one, but unless Ithillid says otherwise it is only semi-canon.

Budget: 100 Capital + 30 Capital Reserve
Industry Points: 50 IP
Earth Orbit Launch Capacity: 80 per Turn
Pathfinder Time: 90 Days
Manned Missions: 2 / 4 slots used

Facilities:
[]Tanegashima Space Center (Stage 3)
With the G shuttle and Gargarin station, SCED already has two projects that have brought their current manufacturing capability to their limits. The third phase of Tanagashima will be a large-scale manufacturing complex to easily produce hull parts for such projects.
(20 Capital per Die 317/400)(+20 IP)

[]New Johnson Training Center (Stage 3)
With the pool of qualified astronaut candidates thinning, SCED looks at more specialised personnel to bolster their ranks. Qualifications to become an Astrotech are still fairly high and require the right training and preparation facilities.
(25 Capital per Die 68/400)(Allows 1 additional Manned or Research Mission to be active at the same time)(Current Limit: 4)

[]Gagarin Station (Stage 3)
Stage III will cover the cage with paneling to protect the craft from interstellar radiation, micrometeorites and the sun's light as well as add more comfortable living quarters for the crew and for the first wave of SCED staff transferred to the station.
(0/5 Gagarin Station Parts; 10 Launch Cap, 5C and 10 IP per Part)(-1 Pathfinder maintenance time, +1 Mission planning die)

[]Harper Spaceport (Phase 1)
While many of SCED's missions are now solar system wide, they still require launching cargo and materials from Earth into space.
(15 Capital per Die 0/100)(+10 Launch Cap)

Planetary Bases:
[]Advanced Lunar Base Stage 1
Luna is now a barebones research outpost. It needs to be expanded massively in order to fully transform it into a proper research station, able to test the newest technologies in lunar colonisation and construction.
(0/5 Facilities; 5C, 5 Launch Cap and 5 IP per Facility)(-1 Capital per Turn)

Assembly
[]Reusable Probes (0/36 IP, 0/18 Capital)(Allows for spending of Pathfinder time instead of resources for scans)

Development (5 Dice) +20
[ ]Surface Exploration EVA Development 92/500 (2C/Die)
Remote controlled rovers suffer from the, over interstellar and interplanetary distances, slow speed of light. It takes about 5 to 20 minutes for a message to travel between earth and mars. Surface missions even further out will require local rover autonomy to some extent. The EVA unit will need to navigate, take samples and recognize when a problem needs a solution from earth, on its own. General reluctance in regards to autonomous vehicles means that GDI has limited knowledge of such use cases compared to other AI applications, making the creation of such an EVA more difficult.

[]Small Scale Nuclear Reactor Development 52/100 5/5IP (5C/Die+2IP/Die)
GDI already has great experience in using small scale nuclear power for a variety of applications. To fit into SCED's modular part strategy they need to redesign some of the system however.

[]Advanced Lunar Base Stage 0/400(5C/Die+2IP/Die)
As a technological exercise and as a proof of concept, much of the lunar research outpost will be built from local resources. Doing so however will require researching the technologies required to do so: from winning metals and oxygen from regolith to generating oxygen and food from plants. (Required for Advanced Outpost Stage II)

[-]Venus Rover Prototyping 216/250 (5C/Die+5IP/Die)
Venus is due to its high pressures and temperatures a bad place for conventional electronics, as such more niche and exotic options to explore its surface are required. (Locked for one turn)

Space Command Mission Planning (3 Dice) +5
[ ]Mars Landing Mission Addendum: Return sample of transuranics 30/50

[]Mission: Orbital Scan (Write-in) (for example: Luna, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter) (Requires one Die)(Gas Giants have the main planet, each major moon, and rings+minor moons as locations)

[]Mission: Surface Exploration (Write-in) 0/150
-Ceres 44/100

[]Mission: Manned Landing (Write-in) 0/400

[]Mission: Research Base (Write-in) 0/900
-Mars 0/600

Missions
Total Pathfinder Time: 90 days
Current Maintenance time: 4 days

Spoiler: Pathfinder Base Time Requirements (Two way journey time):

Mercury: 9 days
Venus: 9 days
Mars: 10 days
Asteroid Belt: 13 days
Jupiter: 20 days
Saturn: 26 days
Uranus: 36 days
Neptune: 45 days
Pluto: 51 days

Mercury (13 Pathfinder days)
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Venus (13 Pathfinder days)
[]Rover Delivery-Venus
(Required for activation: Venus Rover Prototyping)

Luna
[]Pardus Mission-Luna
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Manned Mission)
-[](Write-in Location)(max 2 per Turn)

Mars (14 Pathfinder days)
[]Rover Delivery-Mars
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Launch Cap per Location)
-[](Write-in Location)

[]Manned Mars Landing
(Required for activation: 30IP, 15 Capital, 20 Launch Cap, 1 Manned Mission, 14 Pathfinder days)

Asteroid Belt (17 Pathfinder days)
[]Belt Probing (0/80 Objects probed)(6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap per Object probed)

Jupiter (24 Pathfinder days)
[]Surface Scan - Callisto
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap)

[]Surface Scan - Ganymede
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap)

[]Surface Scan - Europa
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap)

[]Observation Probes - Minor Moons + Rings
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap)


Mission Tracker!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YAhLAoy0BTHB1CPYHeDffyDNwkrM6_dy7u0PL4yZ8_E/edit?usp=sharing

To Launch Missions, it must be "Ready for Launch" in the mission tracker and the requirements must be fulfilled.

 

[BOTcommander]

SCEDQuest Q2 2058 Results

Tanegashima Space Center (Stage 3) 532/400 NAT 100
The continued work on the hull manufacturing plant gave SCED RnD an idea, in which they rapidly prototyped a system for a new hull material. By layering composite material sheets during the curing process with carbon nanotube netting, you get a material with vastly improved resistance to tear and twisting forces that is significantly lighter and also has improved thermal properties. As the new procedure requires only a moderate modification to the plating process, it was made while the plant was still in the process of being constructed. (+30 IP)

Surface Exploration EVA Development 388/500
Mars Landing Mission Addendum: Return sample of transuranics 55/50
Mission: Surface Exploration Ceres 83/100

Reusable Probes
The vast majority of the SCEDs industrial capacity was spent on assembling the modified Hermes II this quarter. Much more capable, but also more expensive. The probes were delivered to Pathfinder, while she was in maintenance after the successful Pluto mission.

Surface Scan Pluto
Impressed by Pathfinder and the G-drives capabilities, Sokolov ordered a probe delivery to one of the farthest away objects in the solar system: Pluto. After 25 days of constant ac- and de-celleration, the crew arrived at Pluto. A dead and frozen dwarf planet. With the sun only providing 1/160th of the light per square meter compared to earth, it is truly out in the deep dark ocean of the void, but even in darkness lies beauty, the frozen world below Pathfinder strangely beautiful.

Bringing the probes in the right orbits was a relatively short affair compared to the voyage it needed to get there and if the SCED wants to provide probes to Charon too, Pluto's moon, they will need to do the voyage again. And so, after merely 16 hours in orbit around it, they made the voyage back towards home, back towards the light and warmth of the sun.


SCEDQuest Q3 2058

This Side Quest was allowed by Ithillid and is supposed to be fun. Things happening in SCEDQuest will be affected by the main one, but unless Ithillid says otherwise it is only semi-canon.

Budget: 100 Capital + 35 Capital Reserve
Industry Points: 80 IP
Earth Orbit Launch Capacity: 80 per Turn
Pathfinder Time: 90 Days
Manned Missions: 2 / 4 slots used

Facilities:
[]Tanegashima Space Center (Stage 4)
With nearly all basic manufacturing needs of the SCED taken care of, it is time to think bigger. The next stage of manufacturing will generally expand manufacturing of common elements in the common part strategy, such as nuts, bolts, microcomputers and reaction control sensors.
(20 Capital per Die 132/500)(+40 IP)

[]New Johnson Training Center (Stage 3)
With the pool of qualified astronaut candidates thinning, SCED looks at more specialised personnel to bolster their ranks. Qualifications to become an Astrotech are still fairly high and require the right training and preparation facilities.
(25 Capital per Die 68/400)(Allows 1 additional Manned or Research Mission to be active at the same time)(Current Limit: 4)

[]Gagarin Station (Stage 3)
Stage III will cover the cage with paneling to protect the craft from interstellar radiation, micrometeorites and the sun's light as well as add more comfortable living quarters for the crew and for the first wave of SCED staff transferred to the station.
(0/5 Gagarin Station Parts; 10 Launch Cap, 5C and 10 IP per Part)(-1 Pathfinder maintenance time, +1 Mission planning die)

[]Harper Spaceport (Phase 1)
While many of SCED's missions are now solar system wide, they still require launching cargo and materials from Earth into space.
(15 Capital per Die 0/100)(+10 Launch Cap)

Planetary Bases:
[]Advanced Lunar Base Stage 1
Luna is now a barebones research outpost. It needs to be expanded massively in order to fully transform it into a proper research station, able to test the newest technologies in lunar colonisation and construction.
(0/5 Facilities; 5C, 5 Launch Cap and 5 IP per Facility)(-1 Capital per Turn)

Assembly
---

Development (5 Dice) +20
[ ]Surface Exploration EVA Development 388/500 (2C/Die)
Remote controlled rovers suffer from the, over interstellar and interplanetary distances, slow speed of light. It takes about 5 to 20 minutes for a message to travel between earth and mars. Surface missions even further out will require local rover autonomy to some extent. The EVA unit will need to navigate, take samples and recognize when a problem needs a solution from earth, on its own. General reluctance in regards to autonomous vehicles means that GDI has limited knowledge of such use cases compared to other AI applications, making the creation of such an EVA more difficult.

[]Small Scale Nuclear Reactor Development 52/100 5/5IP (5C/Die+2IP/Die)
GDI already has great experience in using small scale nuclear power for a variety of applications. To fit into SCED's modular part strategy they need to redesign some of the system however.

[]Advanced Lunar Base Stage 0/400(5C/Die+2IP/Die)
As a technological exercise and as a proof of concept, much of the lunar research outpost will be built from local resources. Doing so however will require researching the technologies required to do so: from winning metals and oxygen from regolith to generating oxygen and food from plants. (Required for Advanced Outpost Stage II)

[]Venus Rover Prototyping 216/250 (5C/Die+5IP/Die)
Venus is due to its high pressures and temperatures a bad place for conventional electronics, as such more niche and exotic options to explore its surface are required.

[]Radiation Shimmer Shield Development 0/250 (8C/Die+8IP/Die)
The Shimmer shield has opened up interesting new measures to protect against interstellar radiation, which mostly consists of high speed electrons and helium cores, for both spacecrafts, stations and stationary bases. Such a shield would very likely not protect against much else, but it would enable Pathfinder's crew to remain longer in Jupiters and Saturn's radiation belts.

Space Command Mission Planning (3 Dice) +5
[]Mission: Orbital Scan (Write-in) (for example: Luna, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter) (Requires one Die)(Gas Giants have the main planet, each major moon, and rings+minor moons as locations)

[]Mission: Surface Exploration (Write-in) 0/150
-Ceres 83/100
-Mercury 0/100
-Pluto 0/100

[]Mission: Manned Landing (Write-in) 0/400

[]Mission: Research Base (Write-in) 0/900
-Mars 0/600

Missions
Total Pathfinder Time: 90 days
Current Maintenance time: 4 days

Spoiler: Pathfinder Base Time Requirements (Two way journey time):

Mercury: 9 days
Venus: 9 days
Mars: 10 days
Asteroid Belt: 13 days
Jupiter: 20 days
Saturn: 26 days
Uranus: 36 days
Neptune: 45 days
Pluto: 51 days

Mercury (13 Pathfinder days)
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Venus (13 Pathfinder days)
[]Rover Delivery-Venus
(Required for activation: Venus Rover Prototyping)

Luna
[]Pardus Mission-Luna
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Manned Mission)
-[](Write-in Location)(max 2 per Turn)

Mars (14 Pathfinder days)
[]Rover Delivery-Mars
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Launch Cap per Location)
-[](Write-in Location)

[]Manned Mars Landing
(Required for activation: 30IP, 15 Capital, 20 Launch Cap, 1 Manned Mission, 14 Pathfinder days)(Cannot do Rover deliveries at the same time as Rover Delivery)

Asteroid Belt (17 Pathfinder days)
[]Belt Probing (0/80 Objects probed)((6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap) or 5 Pathfinder days per Object probed)

Jupiter (24 Pathfinder days)
[]Surface Scan - Callisto
(Required for activation: (6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap) or 5 Pathfinder days)

[]Surface Scan - Ganymede
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap)

[]Surface Scan - Europa
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap)

[]Observation Probes - Minor Moons + Rings
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap)


Mission Tracker!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YAhLAoy0BTHB1CPYHeDffyDNwkrM6_dy7u0PL4yZ8_E/edit?usp=sharing

To Launch Missions, it must be "Ready for Launch" in the mission tracker and the requirements must be fulfilled.

 

[BOTcommander]

SCEDQuest Q3 2058 Results

New Johnson Training Center (Stage 3) 139/400
New Johnson has by now become an important fixture in the Space Command training pipeline, mostly by allowing SC military staff to train for zero- and low-g emergencies using the SCEDs advanced gravity simulation chambers. Beyond that, it is also handling much of the off-world Astrotech training for the Treasury's Moon industrialization program. Astech training has been refined over the months, now involving an advanced maneuvering and safety course to prepare them for the challenges in living in these unusual environments with no or low gravity, as well as a basic zero-g first aid course, as doing CPR and wound care are different due to the properties of gasses and fluids in low/zero g relative to Earth gravity. As current facilities have almost come to their limits, both the astronaut and astrotech training programs will need to be expanded, but doing so will require additional facilities for housing, training, schooling and testing of the candidates. Buildup has been slowed by the need to acquire experienced training specialists for the basic courses while the Treasury's space construction efforts demand an ever greater number of specialised staff that can do the assembly work for GDSS Philadelphia, draining the pool of candidates.

Advanced Lunar Base Stage 1 Complete
SCED's lunar base has been upgraded from a collection of simple habitation units into an actual outpost using a mix of shipped in and locally produced materials and parts. The main part of the base is now a large, buried cylinder that serves as the main living and laboratory accommodation, using artificial gravity to boost the inside gravity to around 0.875g, three quarters the difference between lunar and Earth gravity. The SCED is still figuring out a good tradeoff between keeping the inhabitants healthy in the long term and decreasing fatigue after working in low gravity for long times. The site's laboratory facilities have been upgraded with equipment to experiment with advanced lunar ISRU concepts, like extracting the trace amounts of helium-3 from regolith.

Surface Exploration EVA Development 502/500
Development of the EVA model for surface explorations has concluded. As current processor technology is not efficient enough to run the full suite of functions in the energy poor environments of Mars and beyond, the EVA will need only complement the work of the Earth side SCED controllers instead of fully replacing them. Its main specialisation is independent navigation and movement in complex environments like the rough surface of extraterrestrial bodies, which proved to be a bottleneck with signal lag times of multiple minutes requiring slow and careful movement to not get the rovers stuck. The independent sampling functions cannot be made use of until the SCED gets access to more efficient computing devices. Nevertheless the upgrade should cut current mission times in half, even with the many technical limitations.

Small Scale Nuclear Reactor Development 160/100
Small scale nuclear power has to fight with a number of potential challenges, like cooling, radiation containment and of course the power generation itself. Luckily there are a number of smaller scale thorium and uranium reactor designs the SCED could draw from when making their own space worthy version. In the orbits where this would be useful, efficient transfers would put the deliveries on an extremely painfully slow schedule, one that does not match well with the SCED's exploration goals.

Venus Rover Prototyping 261/250
The prototyping program has largely discarded most of their designs. None were able to work reliably for prolonged periods of time. As such every exploratory program has been scrapped, save for an airborne approach. Using a number of disposable gliding probes to get under the thicckcloud cover to gather atmospheric data and better surface pictures, height and spectrometer data.

Advanced Lunar Base Stage 2 98/400

Mission Planning: Surface Exploration Ceres 83 +63 +5 = 151/100
The surface composition of Ceres is homogeneous on a global scale, and is likely rich in carbonates and ammoniated phyllosilicates that have been altered by water, though water ice in the regolith varies from approximately 10% in polar latitudes to much drier, even ice-free, in the equatorial regions.

Studies using the Hubble Space Telescope revealed that graphite, sulfur, and sulfur dioxide are present on Ceres's surface. The graphite is evidently the result of space weathering on Ceres's older surfaces; the latter two are volatile under Cererian conditions and would be expected to either escape quickly or settle in cold traps, and are evidently associated with areas with relatively recent geological activity.

Tholins, formed from ultraviolet irradiation of simple carbon compounds, were detected on Ceres in Ernutet crater, and most of the planet's near surface is extremely rich in carbon, at approximately 20% by mass. The carbon content is more than five times higher than in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites analyzed on Earth. The surface carbon shows evidence of being mixed with products of rock-water interactions, such as clays. This chemistry suggests Ceres formed in a cold environment, perhaps outside the orbit of Jupiter, and that it accreted from ultra-carbon-rich materials in the presence of water, which could provide conditions favorable to organic chemistry.

Mission Planning: Research Base Mars 0 +129 +10 = 139/600

Missions:
While the SCEDs moon exploration program continues, most of the attention has been on the first manned Mars landing with the Ares mission. Overall Ares went ahead without any problems. The mission was put together at Gagarin over the span of a few weeks as the SCED manufactured and thoroughly tested the lander design, which was then launched in parts and assembled at the station's maintenance cage. The launch of Ares from Gagarin was covered by interested media outlets, but attention for the mission was nowhere near as high as expected, much to the dismay of Admiral Carter who had come to Gagarin to send the astronauts off.
The journey to Mars took only five days, two more than the first Pardus mission, before Pathfinder entered Mars orbit and the crew descended via the landing module carried in Pathfinder's belly.
Ares stayed for a total of five days on the martian surface, collecting a large amount of samples, including one of the transuranics rich soil, and performed and placed a number of experiments in the martian environment. Two of which, the long term material exposure study and the plant growth experiment will take a few months to produce their first usable results. The landing and stay of the GDI astronauts received closer to the expected attention, with the Starbound Party in particular trying to capitalize on the event leading to a rise of interest in space again. At the end of their stay, Ares left most of their equipment behind and returned to orbit, the returning craft filled with samples with one of them being secured in an armored high security and durability container.
When they returned, Director Litvinov and Sabrina Godwinson made room in their busy schedule to invite the SCED's figureheads and the Ares team onto the Philadelphia for a personal meeting, congratulating them for their accomplishments in pushing forward the edge of GDIs and humanity's frontier, bestowing Silver Eagles onto the Ares crew and the Space Command Distinguished Service medal to mission commander Baldwin.
With the space focused media and general press attention going to this event, the second mission for Pathfinder went mostly unnoticed. As she went ahead to explore the asteroid belt, using her deployable probes to scan multiple clusters of asteroids for the resource contents and finding a few viable candidates for later exploitation.


SCEDQuest Q4 2058

This Side Quest was allowed by Ithillid and is supposed to be fun. Things happening in SCEDQuest will be affected by the main one, but unless Ithillid says otherwise it is only semi-canon.

Budget: 100 Capital + 18 Capital Reserve
Industry Points: 80 IP
Earth Orbit Launch Capacity: 80 per Turn
Pathfinder Time: 90 Days
Manned Missions: 2 / 4 slots used

Facilities:
[]Tanegashima Space Center (Stage 4)
With nearly all basic manufacturing needs of the SCED taken care of, it is time to think bigger. The next stage of manufacturing will generally expand manufacturing of common elements in the common part strategy, such as nuts, bolts, microcomputers and reaction control sensors.
(20 Capital per Die 132/500)(+40 IP)

[]New Johnson Training Center (Stage 3)
With the pool of qualified astronaut candidates thinning, SCED looks at more specialised personnel to bolster their ranks. Qualifications to become an Astrotech are still fairly high and require the right training and preparation facilities.
(25 Capital per Die 139/400)(Allows 1 additional Manned or Research Mission to be active at the same time)(Current Limit: 4)

[]Gagarin Station (Stage 3)
Stage III will cover the cage with paneling to protect the craft from interstellar radiation, micrometeorites and the sun's light as well as add more comfortable living quarters for the crew and for the first wave of SCED staff transferred to the station.
(0/5 Gagarin Station Parts; 10 Launch Cap, 5C and 10 IP per Part)(-1 Pathfinder maintenance time, +1 Mission planning die)

[]Harper Spaceport (Phase 1)
While many of SCED's missions are now solar system wide, they still require launching cargo and materials from Earth into space.
(15 Capital per Die 0/100)(+10 Launch Cap)

Planetary Bases:
[-]Advanced Lunar Base Stage 2
Luna is now a barebones research outpost. It needs to be expanded massively in order to fully transform it into a proper research station, able to test the newest technologies in lunar colonisation and construction.
(0/10 Facilities; 5C, 5 Launch Cap and 5 IP per Facility)(+1 Development dice)

Assembly
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Development (5 Dice) +20
[]Lunar Seismic Imaging Array 0/150 (5C/Die+2IP/DIe)
Luna is theorized to have extensive underground caverns, leftovers from its volcanic past, that would be excellent places to build underground cities and bases in, protected from meteorites and radiation by meters of lunar soil and rock. Finding these however is the problem and may require the development and deployment of a large scale seismic imaging system all over the moon's surface.

[]Advanced Lunar Base Stage 2 98/400 (5C/Die+2IP/Die)
As a technological exercise and as a proof of concept, much of the lunar research outpost will be built from local resources. Doing so however will require researching the technologies required to make it possible: from winning metals and oxygen from regolith to generating oxygen and food from plants. (Required for Advanced Outpost Stage II)

[]Radiation Shimmer Shield Development 0/250 (8C/Die+8IP/Die)
The Shimmer shield has opened up interesting new measures to protect against interstellar radiation, which mostly consists of high speed electrons and helium cores, for both spacecraft, stations and stationary bases. Such a shield would very likely not protect against much else, but it would enable Pathfinder's crew to remain longer in Jupiter's and Saturn's radiation belts.

[]Mark II Fusion Engine 0/300 (5C/Die+8IP/Die)
By now SCED's engineers have gotten enough data and experience together with advances in fusion-, laser-, superconductor- and material-technology to begin prototyping a more advanced fusion engine. The current iteration has the problem that once it has finished firing it is very difficult to get going again. The engineers have suggested using laser ignited fusion of small deuterium pellets to quickstart the engine cycle as needed, a concept that will need a large amount of work and prototyping before it can be finished.

[]Lunar Regolith Agricultural Experiments 0/200 (2C/Die+1IP/Die)
The question of what additives have to be added to lunar regolith to allow for the growth of basic agricultural crops has been unanswered. Doing this research now will simplify starting up lunar agriculture in the future and potentially even gene modification projects to make maximum use of the regolith composition.

[]He3-extraction Experiments 0/100 (2C/Die+1IP/Die)
Helium-3 has useful potential applications in fusion technology, as the fusion cycle does not produce free protons instead of neutrons, which can be more easily tapped for energy, reducing radiation while also increasing efficiency. Extracting He-3 from the regolith however will require unique and new approaches.

Space Command Mission Planning (3 Dice) +5
[]Mission: Orbital Scan (Write-in) (for example: Luna, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter) (Requires one Die)(Gas Giants have the main planet, each major moon, and rings+minor moons as locations)
-Charon (Requires one Die)

[]Mission: Surface Exploration (Write-in) 0/150
-Mercury 0/100
-Pluto 0/100

[]Mission: Manned Landing (Write-in)
-Ceres(0/100)

[]Mission: Research Base (Write-in)
-Mars 139/600

Missions
Total Pathfinder Time: 90 days
Current Maintenance time: 4 days

Spoiler: Pathfinder Base Time Requirements (Two way journey time):

Mercury: 9 days
Venus: 9 days
Mars: 10 days
Asteroid Belt: 13 days
Jupiter: 20 days
Saturn: 26 days
Uranus: 36 days
Neptune: 45 days
Pluto: 51 days

Mercury (13 Pathfinder days)
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Venus (13 Pathfinder days)
[]Probe Delivery-Venus
(Required for activation: 2IP per Location, 1 Capital per Location, 1 Launch Cap per Location)(0/20 Locations)

Luna
[]Pardus Mission-Luna
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Manned Mission)
-[](Write-in Location)(max 2 per Turn)

Mars (14 Pathfinder days)
[]Rover Delivery-Mars
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Launch Cap per Location)
-[](Write-in Location)

Asteroid Belt (17 Pathfinder days)
[]Belt Probing (13/80 Objects probed)((6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap) or 5 Pathfinder days per Object probed)

[]Ceres Rover Delivery
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Launch Cap per Location)(0/15 Locations)

Jupiter (24 Pathfinder days)
[]Surface Scan - Callisto
(Required for activation: (6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap) or 5 Pathfinder days)

[]Surface Scan - Ganymede
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap)

[]Surface Scan - Europa
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap)

[]Observation Probes - Minor Moons + Rings
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3Capital, 3 Launch Cap)


Mission Tracker!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YAhLAoy0BTHB1CPYHeDffyDNwkrM6_dy7u0PL4yZ8_E/edit?usp=sharing

To Launch Missions, it must be "Ready for Launch" in the mission tracker and the requirements must be fulfilled.

Vote by plan.

 

[BOTcommander]

SCEDQuest Q4 2058 Results

A Shocking Discovery
The Pardus missions continue, having become routine by now and an important feature of SCED astronaut training. On two different places on the moon, the astronauts find trace amounts of fissile materials this quarter. Since the moon was created out of the earth after a devastating impact billions of years ago, both share a similar distribution of elements, which includes high atomic number ones.

The Venus mission has caused quite a stir internally. Transmissions from Pathfinder to Earth were quickly cut off after Mission Control had a suspicion about the pictures they were receiving and only continued sending after Mission Control had set up their long range network to utilize GDIs highest military encryption standard. Operations were temporarily suspended that day as calls were made, pictures and emission datasets were analysed and Kane was cursed, but as more data came in the truth became immutable.

Tiberium was on Venus. A colossal field covered the southern continent covering 16% of the surface in a massive continuous mass, the single largest tiberium deposit in the solar system, dominating Venus surface like a massive yellow-green rash. The Asteroid scanning mission took a backseat in this quarter, despite the bountiful finds they made.

New Johnson Training Center (Stage 3) 212/400
Expansion of the training courses and facilities have run into a few issues the remaining quarter. While construction of the facilities themselves has gone ahead according to schedule, the nearing completion of Philadelphia II and the discovery of Venerean Tiberium have led to an increase in security regulations for Space Command and the SCED specifically. GDI Military Police in cooperation with InOps interviewed and reviewed almost the entire staff, which slowed down administrative operations and led to the dismissal of a handful of civilian hires. Work should resume as usual next quarter.

Advanced Lunar Base Stage II 281/400
Theoretical work on the advanced lunar base continues. Contrary to the previous stage, stage II is planned to be constructable largely out of locally processed materials. Stage II consists of a large dome like scaffolding built over a cylindrical hole in the lunar bedrock. The scaffold is covered by pressed regolith plates, which are then covered by layers of lunarcrete, heated up and liquified regolith. The dome-like structure of the scaffolding and low lunar gravity means lunarcrete can be layered in almost arbitrary thick coatings atop the dome, to meet whatever radiation- and meteor-protection is required. The dome itself is air-tight, enabling the inner space to be used in whatever manner needed once any remaining regolith has been removed.

Lunar Regolith Agricultural Experiments 55/200
The testing bays have been completed and filled with regolith retrieved from the Moon. We have planted the first seeds in them, now we wait

Mission: Research Base Mars 169/300
The initial planning stages are going well, but the progress so far is in ruling out options, not setting anything definite

Mission: Orbital Scan Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. Jupiter is the third-brightest natural object in the Earth's night sky after the Moon and Venus. It has been observed since prehistoric times and is named after the Roman god Jupiter, the king of the gods, because of its observed size.

Jupiter is primarily composed of hydrogen, but helium constitutes one quarter of its mass and one tenth of its volume. It likely has a rocky core of heavier elements, but like the other giant planets, Jupiter lacks a well-defined solid surface. The on-going contraction of its interior generates more energy than it receives from the Sun. Because of its rapid rotation, the planet's shape is that of an oblate spheroid; it has a slight but noticeable bulge around the equator. The outer atmosphere is visibly segregated into several bands at different latitudes, with turbulence and storms along their interacting boundaries. A prominent result of this is the Great Red Spot, a giant storm that is known to have existed since at least the 17th century, when it was first seen by telescope.

Jupiter itself does not really have a surface to explore. As such a number of permanent satellites will be placed in varying orbits to gather data on its atmospheric layers and magnetic field compositions.

Mission: Orbital Scan Io
Io, or Jupiter-a, is the innermost and third-largest of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter. Slightly larger than the Moon, Io is the fourth-largest moon in the Solar System, has the highest density of any moon, and has the lowest amount of water of any known astronomical object in the Solar System. It was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei and was named after the mythological character Io, a priestess of Hera who became one of Zeus's lovers.

With over 400 active volcanoes, Io is the most geologically active object in the Solar System. This extreme geologic activity is the result of tidal heating from friction generated within Io's interior as it is pulled between Jupiter and the other Galilean moons—Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Several volcanoes produce plumes of sulfur and sulfur dioxide that climb as high as 500 km above the surface. Io's surface is also dotted with more than 100 mountains that have been uplifted by extensive compression at the base of Io's silicate crust. Some of these peaks are taller than Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth's surface. Unlike most moons in the outer Solar System, which are mostly composed of water ice, Io is primarily composed of silicate rock surrounding a molten iron or iron sulfide core. Most of Io's surface is composed of extensive plains with a frosty coating of sulfur and sulfur dioxide.

In terms of available resources, Io could either be a treasure chest or a dissapointment. It has the highest average density of the Galilean moons and could as such be a treasure trove of some half-metals and metals found rarely so far away from the inner system. As such it is of higher interest to the SCED.


SCEDQuest Q1 2059

This Side Quest was allowed by Ithillid and is supposed to be fun. Things happening in SCEDQuest will be affected by the main one, but unless Ithillid says otherwise it is only semi-canon.

Budget: 125 Capital + 118 Capital Reserve
Industry Points: 80 IP
Earth Orbit Launch Capacity: 80 per Turn
Pathfinder Time: 90 Days
Astronaut Teams: 2 (+1 per Plan)
Astrotech Teams: 5 (+1 per Year)

Earth-Luna:

Earthside Facilities (Unlimited Dice)

Earth-Industry Points: 80 IP
Earth-Launch Capacity: 80 per Turn

[]Tanegashima Space Center (Stage 4)
With nearly all basic manufacturing needs of the SCED taken care of, it is time to think bigger. The next stage of manufacturing will generally expand manufacturing of common elements in the common part strategy, such as nuts, bolts, microcomputers and reaction control sensors.
(20 Capital per Die 132/500)(+40 E-IP)

[]Tanegashima Station Module Complex
With the SCED planning to build a lot more orbital stations in the near and mid-term future around Earth and other bodies and expected to be required to do so by Parliament, a dedicated clean-room complex dedicated to producing, assembling and testing station modules that can easily be transported by Pathfinder would ease the load on the rest of the small organisation's industrial capacity.
(25 Capital per Die 0/200)(Waves the E-IP cost for 1 Station-Part per turn)

[]New Johnson Training Center (Stage 3)
With the pool of qualified astronaut candidates thinning, SCED looks at more specialised personnel to bolster their ranks. Qualifications to become an Astrotech are still fairly high and require the right training and preparation facilities.
(25 Capital per Die 212/400)(+1 Astronaut Team per Plan, +1 Astrotech Team per quarter)

[]Harper Spaceport Expansion (Phase 1)
While many of SCED's missions are now solar system wide, they still require launching cargo and materials from Earth into space.
(15 Capital per Die 0/100)(+10 E-Launch Cap)

Earth-Orbit Facilities:
[]Gagarin Station (Stage 3)
Stage III will cover Pathfinder's docking cage with paneling to protect the craft from interstellar radiation, micrometeorites and the sun's light as well as add more comfortable living quarters for the crew and for the first wave of SCED staff transferred to the station.
(3/5 Gagarin Station Parts; 10 E-Launch Cap, 5C and 10 E-IP per Part)(-1 Pathfinder maintenance time, +1 Mission planning die)(-3 Astrotech Teams)
[-]High Security Materials Laboratory Module (Requires Gagarin-Stage 3)
For security's sake, the Martian transuranic samples will need to be analysed and researched in a laboratory isolated from Earth. Such a high security laboratory module is already an expensive construction operation on Earth and will be even more expensive in space, both in terms of items and hardware launched and in the projected cost.
(0/5 HS-Station Parts; 10 E-Launch Cap, 20C and 20 E-IP per Part)(+1 Research Die)(-4 Astrotech Teams)


Lunar Facilities:
[-]Advanced Lunar Base Stage 2
Luna is now a barebones research outpost. It needs to be expanded massively in order to fully transform it into a proper research station, able to test the newest technologies in lunar colonisation and construction.
(0/10 Facilities; 5C, 5 Launch Cap and 5 E-IP per Facility)(-4 Astrotech Teams, +1 Astronaut Teams)(+1 Development dice, +1 Lunar Die)



Assembly
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Development (5 Dice) +20
[]Lunar Seismic Imaging Array 0/150 (5C/Die+2E-IP/DIe)
Luna is theorized to have extensive underground caverns, leftovers from its volcanic past, that would be excellent places to build underground cities and bases in, protected from meteorites and radiation by meters of lunar soil and rock. Finding these however is the problem and may require the development and deployment of a large scale seismic imaging system all over the moon's surface.

[]Advanced Lunar Base Stage 2 281/400 (5C/Die+2E-IP/Die)
As a technological exercise and as a proof of concept, much of the lunar research outpost will be built from local resources. Doing so however will require researching the technologies required to make it possible: from winning metals and oxygen from regolith to generating oxygen and food from plants. (Required for Advanced Outpost Stage II)

[]Radiation Shimmer Shield Development 0/250 (8C/Die+8E-IP/Die)
The Shimmer shield has opened up interesting new measures to protect against interstellar radiation, which mostly consists of high speed electrons and helium cores, for both spacecraft, stations and stationary bases. Such a shield would very likely not protect against much else, but it would enable Pathfinder's crew to remain longer in Jupiter's and Saturn's radiation belts.

[]Mark II Fusion Engine 0/300 (5C/Die+8E-IP/Die)
By now SCED's engineers have gotten enough data and experience together with advances in fusion-, laser-, superconductor- and material-technology to begin prototyping a more advanced fusion engine. The current iteration has the problem that once it has finished firing it is very difficult to get going again. The engineers have suggested using laser ignited fusion of small deuterium pellets to quickstart the engine cycle as needed, a concept that will need a large amount of work and prototyping before it can be finished.

[]Lunar Regolith Agricultural Experiments 55/200 (2C/Die+1E-IP/Die)
The question of what additives have to be added to lunar regolith to allow for the growth of basic agricultural crops has been unanswered. Doing this research now will simplify starting up lunar agriculture in the future and potentially even gene modification projects to make maximum use of the regolith composition.

[]He3-extraction Experiments 0/100 (2C/Die+1E-IP/Die)
Helium-3 has useful potential applications in fusion technology, as the fusion cycle does not produce free protons instead of neutrons, which can be more easily tapped for energy, reducing radiation while also increasing efficiency. Extracting He-3 from the regolith however will require unique and new approaches.

Space Command Mission Planning (3 Dice) +5
[]Mission: Orbital Scan (Write-in) (for example: Luna, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter) (Requires one Die)(Gas Giants have the main planet, each major moon, and rings+minor moons as locations)
-Charon (Requires one Die)

[]Mission: Surface Exploration (Write-in) 0/100
-Mercury 0/100
-Pluto 0/100

[]Mission: Manned Landing (Write-in) 0/100
-Ceres(0/100)

[]Mission: Research Base (Write-in) 0/300
-Mars 169/300

[]Venus: Tiberium Monitoring Array (Requires one Die)
Monitoring of the size of the Venus Tiberium fields has become of relative importance for long term human presence in the inner system. With Hermes probes unable to gather much data due to their limited available power, the monitoring array will require an undetermined number of high power designs.

[]Venus: Tiberium Sampling 0/200
Parliament wants the SCED to return a sample of Venerian Tiberium back for study. The extreme environment of Venus atmosphere however will require multiple unique solutions for each step of the journey: Collection, retrieval and transport, each of which is an engineering challenge to be overcome.

Missions
Total Pathfinder Time: 90 days
Current Maintenance time: 4 days

Spoiler: Pathfinder Base Time Requirements (Two way journey time):

Mercury: 9 days
Venus: 9 days
Mars: 10 days
Asteroid Belt: 13 days
Jupiter: 20 days
Saturn: 26 days
Uranus: 36 days
Neptune: 45 days
Pluto: 51 days

Mercury (13 Pathfinder days)
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Venus (13 Pathfinder days)
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Luna
[]Pardus Mission-Luna
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Manned Mission)
-[](Write-in Location)(max 2 per Turn)

Mars (14 Pathfinder days)
[]Rover Delivery-Mars
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Launch Cap per Location)
-[](Write-in Location)

Asteroid Belt (17 Pathfinder days)
[]Belt Probing (23/80 Objects probed)((6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap) or 5 Pathfinder days per Object probed)

[]Ceres Rover Delivery
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Launch Cap per Location)(0/15 Locations)

Jupiter (24 Pathfinder days)
[]Observation Array - Jupiter
(0/10 Observation Satellites (6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap) per Satellite)

[]Surface Scan - Callisto
(Required for activation: (6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap) or 5 Pathfinder days)

[]Surface Scan - Ganymede
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap)

[]Surface Scan - Io
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap)

[]Surface Scan - Europa
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap)

[]Observation Probes - Minor Moons + Rings
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap)


Mission Tracker!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YAhLAoy0BTHB1CPYHeDffyDNwkrM6_dy7u0PL4yZ8_E/edit?usp=sharing

To Launch Missions, it must be "Ready for Launch" in the mission tracker and the requirements must be fulfilled.

 

[BOTcommander]

SCEDQuest Q1 2059 Results

Missions
As the Pardus mission series comes to their end with lack of prospecting sites, there is a certain sentimentality in the air at SCED HQ in Harper. With much of the exploratory effort switching towards the belt and the riches discovered there, the trace amounts of water discovered on the moon are spare change in comparison.

New Johnson Training Center (Stage 3) 321/400
After the more than problematic last quarter, work on the new training programs continues as usual.

Tanegashima Station Module Complex 41/200
Instead, it is construction work on the new Tanegashima complex that runs into problems. After the first foundations had to be scrapped when a Tiberium fissure threatened to break through the earth and the area was taken over by Tiberium Safety, work up to that step had to be redone on a different site. As such progress has been slow.

Gagarin Station (Stage 3) 5/5 Gagarin Station Parts and High Security Materials Laboratory Module (Requires Gagarin-Stage 3) 2/5 Station Parts
The SCED continues work on their Gagarin Station, completing Stage 3 and beginning to move some of their staff to the station. Additionally, the engineers begin with the pre-assembly of the parts for the planned High Security Materials Laboratory. Each of the parts is a highly complex piece of technology, built to the standards of Tiberium Laboratories but modified for space. So far only the inner and outer shell have been completed with the internal laboratories and the containment and test chambers unfinished.

Advanced Lunar Base Stage 2 476/400
The final theoretical and earth side engineering problems have been figured out. What remains now is to turn the concept from a merely theoretical construct into a real project on the lunar surface.

Mark II Fusion Engine 75/300
Work on the next generation of fusion engines begins with the restart mechanism. Thanks to Nod's crystal laser technology, reaching the required laser power densities is a simple matter, but the problem is both in tuning the machinery and in integrating it with a functioning fusion engine. The rest will require utilizing advances in fusion power and superconducting technology.

Lunar Regolith Agricultural Experiments 197+5(BOT IS MERCIFUL!)/200
The experiments have revealed what SCED had expected. While the regolith is a useful basic substrate, it lacks many of the minerals and organic substances needed for farming. This is an easily solved problem, and merely means that setting up farming on the Moon requires a carefully calibrated fertilizer balance, packets of primary succession organisms to construct the required soil, and some time. Long term maintenance of lunar farms will require proper waste management techniques and imports of certain trace substances from elsewhere on the Moon or space in case Earth is not able to support such activity.
It will still be a sparse, harsh soil for many earth plants, and aquaponics shall remain a keystone of our agricultural needs even on the Moon.


Venus: Tiberium Monitoring Array
Plans for the monitoring array have been completed and the theoretical work done. Now it's on the SCED engineers to figure out the details of the higher power microwave radar satellites.

Venus: Tiberium Sampling 163/200
Planning for the Tiberium Sampling mission, known in the SCED unofficially as the "Tiberium Heist", has been going well. The mission consists of four parts: "produce", "gather", "return" and "store". Planning for "store", in the form of a large satellite containing a complex Tiberium containment system dubbed Tartarus has been finalized with the help of the Tiberium Safety Bureau, but the others are still only halfway through the planning stages.


SCEDQuest Q2 2059

This Side Quest was allowed by Ithillid and is supposed to be fun. Things happening in SCEDQuest will be affected by the main one, but unless Ithillid says otherwise it is only semi-canon.

Budget: 125 Capital + 47 Capital Reserve
Industry Points: 80 IP
Earth Orbit Launch Capacity: 80 per Turn
Pathfinder Time: 90 Days
Astronaut Teams: 2 (+1 per Plan)
Astrotech Teams: 2 (+1 per Year)

Earth-Luna:

Earthside Facilities (Unlimited Dice)

Earth-Industry Points: 80 IP
Earth-Launch Capacity: 80 per Turn

[]Tanegashima Space Center (Stage 4)
With nearly all basic manufacturing needs of the SCED taken care of, it is time to think bigger. The next stage of manufacturing will generally expand manufacturing of common elements in the common part strategy, such as nuts, bolts, microcomputers and reaction control sensors.
(20 Capital per Die 132/500)(+40 E-IP)

[]Tanegashima Station Module Complex
With the SCED planning to build a lot more orbital stations in the near and mid-term future around Earth and other bodies and expected to be required to do so by Parliament, a dedicated clean-room complex dedicated to producing, assembling and testing station modules that can easily be transported by Pathfinder would ease the load on the rest of the small organisation's industrial capacity.
(25 Capital per Die 41/200)(Waves the E-IP cost for 1 Station-Part per turn)

[]New Johnson Training Center (Stage 3)
With the pool of qualified astronaut candidates thinning, SCED looks at more specialised personnel to bolster their ranks. Qualifications to become an Astrotech are still fairly high and require the right training and preparation facilities.
(25 Capital per Die 321/400)(+1 Astronaut Team per Plan, +2 Astrotech Team per year)

[]Harper Spaceport Expansion (Phase 1)
While many of SCED's missions are now solar system wide, they still require launching cargo and materials from Earth into space.
(15 Capital per Die 0/100)(+10 E-Launch Cap)

Earth-Orbit Facilities:
[]Gagarin Station (Stage 4)
Stage 4 will establish the first off-earth laboratory facilities to better test orbital technologies and additionally a larger mission planning center. These additions will come in the form of a ring of connected artificial gravity habitat sections built around the center spire.
(0/10 Gagarin Station Parts; 10 E-Launch Cap, 5C and 10 E-IP per Part)(-1 Pathfinder maintenance time, +2 Mission planning die, +1 Research Die)(-3 Astrotech Teams)

[]High Security Materials Laboratory Module (Requires Gagarin-Stage 3)
For security's sake, the Martian transuranic samples will need to be analysed and researched in a laboratory isolated from Earth. Such a high security laboratory module is already an expensive construction operation on Earth and will be even more expensive in space, both in terms of items and hardware launched and in the projected cost.
(2/5 HS-Station Parts; 10 E-Launch Cap, 20C and 20 E-IP per Part)(+1 Research Die)(-4 Astrotech Teams)


Lunar Facilities:
[]Advanced Lunar Base Stage 2
Luna is now a barebones research outpost. It needs to be expanded massively in order to fully transform it into a proper research station, able to test the newest technologies in lunar colonisation and construction.
(0/10 Facilities; 5C, 5 Launch Cap and 5 E-IP per Facility)(-4 Astrotech Teams, +1 Astronaut Teams)(+1 Development dice, +1 Lunar Die)



Assembly
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Development (5 Dice) +20
[]Lunar Seismic Imaging Array 0/150 (5C/Die+2E-IP/DIe)
Luna is theorized to have extensive underground caverns, leftovers from its volcanic past, that would be excellent places to build underground cities and bases in, protected from meteorites and radiation by thick layers of lunar soil and rock. Finding these however is difficult and may require the development and deployment of a large scale seismic imaging system all over the moon's surface.

[]Radiation Shimmer Shield Development 0/100 (5C/Die+5E-IP/Die)
The Shimmer shield has opened up interesting new measures to protect against interstellar radiation, which mostly consists of high speed electrons and helium cores, for spacecraft, stations, and stationary bases. Such a shield would very likely not protect against much else, but it would enable Pathfinder's crew to remain longer in Jupiter's and Saturn's radiation belts. As someone else has already done much of the tweaking of the shield pattern, all that remains is for the SCED to adopt this technology.

[]Mark II Fusion Engine 75/300 (5C/Die+8E-IP/Die)
By now SCED's engineers have gotten enough data and experience together with advances in fusion-, laser-, superconductor- and material-technology to begin prototyping a more advanced fusion engine. The current iteration has the problem that once it has finished firing it is very difficult to get going again. The engineers have suggested using laser ignited fusion of small deuterium pellets to quickstart the engine cycle as needed, a concept that will need a large amount of work and prototyping before it can be finished.

[]He3-extraction Experiments 0/100 (2C/Die+1E-IP/Die)
Helium-3 has useful potential applications in fusion technology, as the fusion cycle produces free protons instead of neutrons, which can be more easily tapped for energy, reducing radiation while also increasing efficiency. Extracting He-3 from the regolith however will require unique and new approaches.

[]Tiberium Monitoring Sattelite 0/100 (5C/Die+5E-IP/DIe)
The specifications for the monitoring satellite are a microwave radar powerful enough to break through the dense storm layer. As such the system will need a lot more power handling capacity and cooling, both making the satellite quite large compared to the SCEDs previous designs.

Space Command Mission Planning (4 Dice) +5
[]Mission: Orbital Scan (Write-in) (for example: Luna, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter) (Requires one Die)(Gas Giants have the main planet, each major moon, and rings+minor moons as locations)
-Charon (Requires one Die)

[]Mission: Surface Exploration (Write-in) 0/100
-Mercury 0/100
-Pluto 0/100

[]Mission: Manned Landing (Write-in) 0/100
-Ceres(0/100)

[]Mission: Research Base (Write-in) 0/300
-Mars 169/300

[]Venus: Tiberium Sampling 163/200
Parliament wants the SCED to return a sample of Venerian Tiberium back for study. The extreme environment of Venus atmosphere however will require multiple unique solutions for each step of the journey: Collection, retrieval and transport, each of which is an engineering challenge to be overcome.

Missions
Total Pathfinder Time: 90 days
Current Maintenance time: 3 days

Spoiler: Pathfinder Base Time Requirements (Two way journey time):

Mercury: 9 days
Venus: 9 days
Mars: 10 days
Asteroid Belt: 13 days
Jupiter: 20 days
Saturn: 26 days
Uranus: 36 days
Neptune: 45 days
Pluto: 51 days

Mercury (12 Pathfinder days)
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Venus (12 Pathfinder days)
[]Tiberium Monitoring Array
(0/6 Observation Satellites, Do []Tiberium Monitoring Satellite first)

Luna
[]Pardus Mission-Luna
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Manned Mission)
-[](Write-in Location)(max 2 per Turn)

Mars (13 Pathfinder days)
[]Rover Delivery-Mars
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Launch Cap per Location)
-[](Write-in Location)

Asteroid Belt (16 Pathfinder days)
[]Belt Probing (37/80 Objects probed)((6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap) or 5 Pathfinder days per Object probed)

[]Ceres Rover Delivery
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Launch Cap per Location)(0/15 Locations)

Jupiter (23 Pathfinder days)
[]Observation Array - Jupiter
(0/10 Observation Satellites (6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap) per Satellite)

[]Surface Scan - Callisto
(Required for activation: (6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap) or 5 Pathfinder days)

[]Surface Scan - Ganymede
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap)

[]Surface Scan - Io
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap)

[]Surface Scan - Europa
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap)

[]Observation Probes - Minor Moons + Rings
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap)


Mission Tracker! -- Soon to be discarded
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YAhLAoy0BTHB1CPYHeDffyDNwkrM6_dy7u0PL4yZ8_E/edit?usp=sharing

To Launch Missions, it must be "Ready for Launch" in the mission tracker and the requirements must be fulfilled.

Vote by plan, you know how it goes.

 

[BOTcommander]

SCEDQuest Q2 2059 Results

Missions
Another quarter full of belt probing and not much more. The SCEDs scientific advisors and universities working in cooperation with them have accused the organization of neglecting their scientific mission, for if the treasury demands that many resource prospecting missions into the belt they can make it official and support the effort through official channels.

New Johnson Training Center (Stage 3) 528/400
A colossal influx of funding finally brought the next stage of New Johnson to completion, doubling the amount of Astrotechs that should have completed their training at the end of the year.

High Security Materials Laboratory Module (Requires Gagarin-Stage 3) 5/5
Following assembly of the expensive and delicate internal laboratory module parts planetside and their launch into orbit, the HSM Laboratory has been completed. Built to the highest safety standards it should allow for an observation of the novel material far away from earthside civilian targets. If on purpose or as a coincidence, the Treasury began implementing a project to research the novel material towards the end of the quarter as well, leaving the SCED with some of the budget allocated for an orbital research station. The unexpected influx of funding has left the leadership asking what should be done with the extra money, as it'd allow for a project too large for normal funding levels.

[]Lunar Deep Space Crater Telescope "Craterscope"
The dark side of the Moon is isolated from all Earthside disturbances by billions of tons of rock. The lack of an atmosphere and the low gravity allow for construction of a truly colossal telescope to look within the deepest parts of the universe, and even take high resolution pictures of nearby star systems.

[]Orbital Fusion Testbed
Deuterium-Deuterium fusion has been used groundside for a while now, but adapting the technology into space has so far not been attempted. There are many challenges to be overcome, but a zero gravity capable fusion reactor should allow for near unlimited power generation anywhere in the solar system.

[]Alpha Centauri Probe Planning
The G-Drive would allow SCED to send a probe to the nearest star system on reasonable time scales. If 0.5g can be maintained during the entire flight, the first data would arrive at earth roughly 11 years after the mission's launch. However even developing the required technological solutions will be expensive and actually constructing it would be outside the SCED's scope.

Lunar Seismic Imaging Array 195/150
The details for the seismic imaging array have been figured out. It will consist of a number of sensor modules all placed in a particular area. After setting it up, a metal rod launched from orbit at the surface will provide the necessary impact energy to chart the Moon's internal structure.

Tiberium Monitoring Satellite 81/100
The monitoring satellites are based on existing designs, and much of the internals are just adaptations of existing modules. However, given the importance of their task, and the difficulties involved with getting usable data through the thick Venusian atmosphere, the sensor arrays and power systems have yet to be finalized, and the hostile radiation and temperature environment due to Venus' closer orbit are significant obstacles in their own right that have not been fully addressed.

He3 extraction Experiments 22/100
He3 experiments go poorly this quarter, with a promising method resulting in worse yields than expected. The research team is preparing some of the slightly less promising methods for testing, but requires further funding to perform those tests.

Venus: Tiberium Sampling 221/200
Planning for the Tiberium heist has been completed. The first step will be to procure a Tiberium sample, which will be done by dropping multiple sonic charges encased in protective shells onto the pillar fields, which will be provided by GDIs military RnD. The second step is extraction, which will be done via specially designed containers built to function long enough in Venus' environment to grab a piece and fill a number of balloons with a lifting gas. A dedicated rocket drone will then be used to transport the sample back into Venus orbit, where it will be put into the Tomb. The Tomb is a double-walled T-Glass container, with the outer section filled with liquid Helium cooled down to as close as absolute zero as possible. The inner containment area of the Tomb will be as pure a vacuum as can be managed. Artificial Gravity will keep the sample piece floating in the center of the box, unable to touch the walls. The external shell of the Tomb is studded with multi-spectral sensors, to try and ensure any emission that makes it through the containment layers is detected and recorded for analysis.
In Lunar orbit, Pathfinder and the crew will deposit the Tomb in the Tartarus Satellite at Earth-Luna L2, which is capable of nearly indefinitely powering the Tomb and a small Inhibitor. In an emergency, the Tartarus satellite has enough delta-V to bring the Tomb into an orbit that will eventually collide with Venus. All three of these items will require a dedicated effort to implement and the proposed plans have already gone out to the SCEDs RnD Division.

Manned Martian Base 323/300
Initial planning for the Mars base has been completed. Due to the longer distance from Earth, the initial base will be larger, require more staff and be built with greater supply storage in mind. This way the inhabitants would be able to survive extended periods without resupply in case of an emergency. With most of the initial Lunar surface infrastructure will be useable with a few modifications for the Martian surface, the only question left to answer is as to where the base should be located.

[]Elysium Mons
Elysium Mons is a volcano on Mars located in the volcanic province Elysium in the Martian eastern hemisphere. The most interesting feature however has been the discovery of the Transuranic element. A base here would allow for easier research of the area and the material itself.

[]Utopia Planitia
Utopia Planitia is a large plain within Utopia, the largest known impact basin on Mars and in the Solar System with an estimated diameter of 3300 km. It is the Martian region where the Viking 2 lander touched down and began exploring on September 3, 1976. The region is rich in Heavy Metals and would allow for better research in how to extract and utilize local Martian resources.

[]Martian North Pole
The Martian North Pole has access to the largest frozen water and carbon dioxide reserves of the red planet. A base here would be mostly noteable in having access to a practically limitless water and oxygen supply.

 

[BOTcommander]

Spoiler: Last Vote

Lunar Deep Space Crater Telescope "Craterscope"
Martian North Pole

SCEDQuest Q3 2059

This Side Quest was allowed by Ithillid and is supposed to be fun. Things happening in SCEDQuest will be affected by the main one, but unless Ithillid says otherwise it is only semi-canon.

Budget: 125 Capital + 1524 Capital Reserve
Industry Points: 80 IP
Earth Orbit Launch Capacity: 80 per Turn
Pathfinder Time: 90 Days
Astronaut Teams: 2 (+2 per Plan)
Astrotech Teams: -2 (+3 per year)

Earth-Luna:

Earthside Facilities (Unlimited Dice)

Earth-Industry Points: 80 IP
Earth-Launch Capacity: 80 per Turn

[]Tanegashima Space Center (Stage 4)
With nearly all basic manufacturing needs of the SCED taken care of, it is time to think bigger. The next stage of manufacturing will generally expand manufacturing of common elements in the common part strategy, such as nuts, bolts, microcomputers and reaction control sensors.
(20 Capital per Die 132/500)(+40 E-IP)

[]Tanegashima Station Module Complex
With the SCED planning to build a lot more orbital stations in the near and mid-term future around Earth and other bodies and expected to be required to do so by Parliament, a dedicated clean-room complex dedicated to producing, assembling and testing station modules that can easily be transported by Pathfinder would ease the load on the rest of the small organization's industrial capacity.
(25 Capital per Die 41/200)(Waves the E-IP cost for 1 Station-Part per turn)

[]New Johnson Training Center (Stage 4)
With the pool of qualified astronaut candidates thinning, SCED looks at more specialised personnel to bolster their ranks. Qualifications to become an Astrotech are still fairly high and require the right training and preparation facilities.
(25 Capital per Die 128/400)(+1 Astronaut Team per Plan, +2 Astrotech Team per year)

[]Harper Spaceport Expansion (Phase 1)
While many of SCED's missions are now solar system wide, they still require launching cargo and materials from Earth into space.
(15 Capital per Die 0/100)(+10 E-Launch Cap)

Earth-Orbit Facilities:
[]Gagarin Station (Stage 4)
Stage 4 will establish the first off-earth laboratory facilities to better test orbital technologies and additionally a larger mission planning center. These additions will come in the form of a ring of connected artificial gravity habitat sections built around the center spire.
(0/10 Gagarin Station Parts; 10 E-Launch Cap, 5C and 10 E-IP per Part)(-1 Pathfinder maintenance time, +2 Mission planning die, +1 Research Die)(-3 Astrotech Teams)

Lunar Facilities:
[]Advanced Lunar Base Stage 2
Luna is now a barebones research outpost. It needs to be expanded massively in order to fully transform it into a proper research station, able to test the newest technologies in lunar colonisation and construction.
(0/10 Facilities; 5C, 5 Launch Cap and 5 E-IP per Facility)(-4 Astrotech Teams, +1 Astronaut Teams)(+1 Development dice, +1 Lunar Die)

[]Lunar Imaging Seismic Array (Phase 1)
LISA can be deployed from orbit, the posts landing and burying their sensors by themselves. The SCED will expand the array region by region, scanning each for available volcanic caves.
(0/10 Sensor Posts; 4C, 2 Launch Cap and 4 E-IP per Post)

Martian Facilities (13 Pathfinder days):
[]Initial Martian SCED Research Base
The initial base will follow a similar pattern to the lunar one. A number of prefabricated habitat units, connected to life support and power. However, the different environmental needs require custom-built facilities to deal with the slight atmosphere, windblown dust, and more normalized day-night cycle.
(0/10 Facilities; 7C, 5 Launch Cap and 5 E-IP per Facility)(-1 Astronaut Team)

[]Mars Gate Station
Since Mars is not in Leopard or Union range from Earth, a station needs to be constructed to serve as a gateway between Pathfinder and the groundside bases. From there, fuel, supplies and personnel can be transferred into the Multi-Use Landing Vehicles for transfer between the ground and orbit.
(0/5 Station Parts; 10 E-Launch Cap, 5C and 10 E-IP per Part)

Assembly
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Development (6 Dice) +20
[]Grav Plate Rover Integration 0/250 (8C/Die+8E-IP/Die)
The grav plate technology is ready for integration. Most interesting for the SCED would be using the technology for rovers as the rocky surface of planets make traversal via ground contact wheels difficult. Grav plates would enable rovers to travel vast distances safely at absurd speeds due to the lower air and ground resistance.

[]Radiation Shimmer Shield Development 0/100 (8C/Die+8E-IP/Die)
The Shimmer shield has opened up interesting new measures to protect against interstellar radiation, which mostly consists of high speed electrons and helium cores, for spacecraft, stations, and stationary bases. Such a shield would very likely not protect against much else, but it would enable Pathfinder's crew to remain longer in Jupiter's and Saturn's radiation belts. As someone else has already done much of the tweaking of the shield pattern, all that remains is for the SCED to adopt this technology.

[]Mark II Fusion Engine 75/300 (5C/Die+8E-IP/Die)
By now SCED's engineers have gotten enough data and experience together with advances in fusion, laser, superconductor, and materials technology to begin prototyping a more advanced fusion engine. The current iteration has the problem that once it has finished firing it is very difficult to get going again. The engineers have suggested using laser ignited fusion of small deuterium pellets to quickstart the engine cycle as needed, a concept that will need a large amount of work and prototyping before it can be finished.

[]He3-extraction Experiments 22/100 (2C/Die+1E-IP/Die)
Helium-3 has useful potential applications in fusion technology, as the fusion cycle produces free protons instead of neutrons, which can be more easily tapped for energy, reducing radiation while also increasing efficiency. Extracting He-3 from the regolith however will require unique and new approaches.

[]Tiberium Monitoring Satellite 81/100 (5C/Die+5E-IP/DIie)
The specifications for the monitoring satellite are a microwave radar powerful enough to break through the dense storm layer. As such the system will need a lot more power handling capacity and cooling, both making the satellite quite large compared to the SCEDs previous designs.

[]Tiberium Heist: Extractor Probe 0/100 (2C/Die+3E-IP/Die)
The Extractor Probe will do the first and, in a way, technically most complex part of the operation. Its electronics need to survive in the hot Venus atmosphere long enough to collect a piece of Tiberium and inflate its acid resistant balloons. For this purpose the probe will contain very simple, heat resistant electronics and mechanical systems.

[]Tiberium Heist: Transfer Drone 0/125 (3C/Die+4E-IP/Die)
Simple in concept but difficult in practice, retrieving a payload from the venerean atmosphere has to deal with a hot, high pressure and corrosive environment. It will have to be an absolutely minimalist piece of equipment that can enter the atmosphere from orbit, catch the floating extractor probe, and reel it into its body before flinging itself back out of the atmosphere as quickly as possible. Because of this, it will not even attempt to enter an orbit, instead relying upon Pathfinder to rendezvous and retrieve its cargo before the inexorable pull of Venus' gravity pulls it towards its demise.
Or retrieves the drone in its entirety, it's not as if Pathfinder can't fit the now much smaller drone's cargo bay and the final stage. SCED might even get a sample of the atmosphere this way.

[]Tiberium Heist: Tartarus 0/200 (5C/Die+5E-IP/Die)
Tartarus is the most complex piece of equipment for this operation. Normally GDI would never even consider orbital Tiberium storage solutions but it is probably smart to not let the Venus sample get too close to Earth, and if trillions of tons of moon rock won't stop any kind of interaction, nothing will. The Tomb will require a complex laser cooling system, 3-axis artificial gravity around an airtight T-glass container and Tartarus itself enough power and cooling to run both it and the Inhibitor module indefinitely. A number of battery arrays will be needed to power the satellite throughout its stay in Luna's shadow during a full moon.

Space Command Mission Planning (4 Dice) +5
[]Mission: Orbital Scan (Write-in) (for example: Luna, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter) (Requires one Die)(Gas Giants have the main planet, each major moon, and rings+minor moons as locations)
-Charon (Requires one Die)

[]Mission: Surface Exploration (Write-in) 0/100
-Mercury 0/100
-Pluto 0/100

[]Mission: Manned Landing (Write-in) 0/100
-Ceres(0/100)

[]Mission: Research Base (Write-in) 0/300

[]Voyager Visitation 0/150
The Voyager probes were the first and only of Mankind's creations that reached the Interstellar void between the stars. Their position has long been lost, but it could be extrapolated and, using Pathfinder, the SCED could catch up to their theoretical position to place a higher power beacon next to them and the probes inside a protective, armored shell if found.

[]Asteroid Refining Test (Requires one Die)
By now the SCED has scanned a fair number of asteroids. A few of them are small enough to fit into Pathfinder's loading bay. It would be possible to transport one of these into Earth orbit, so the Enterprise station could experiment with processing techniques.

[]Craterscope 0/300
A lot of initial planning has to be done for the Craterscope: the right crater has to be found, design work done for the actual telescope parts, materials considered, and methods envisioned to protect the telescope from micrometeorites and solar radiation.

Missions
Total Pathfinder Time: 90 days
Current Maintenance time: 3 days

Spoiler: Pathfinder Base Time Requirements (Two way journey time):

Mercury: 9 days
Venus: 9 days
Mars: 10 days
Asteroid Belt: 13 days
Jupiter: 20 days
Saturn: 26 days
Uranus: 36 days
Neptune: 45 days
Pluto: 51 days

Mercury (12 Pathfinder days)
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Venus (12 Pathfinder days)
[]Tiberium Monitoring Array
(0/6 Observation Satellites, Do []Tiberium Monitoring Satellite first)

Luna
[]Pardus Mission-Luna
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Manned Mission)
-[](Write-in Location)(max 2 per Turn)

Mars (13 Pathfinder days)
[]Rover Delivery-Mars
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Launch Cap per Location)
-[](Write-in Location)

Asteroid Belt (16 Pathfinder days)
[]Belt Probing (51/80 Objects probed)((6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap) or 5 Pathfinder days per Object probed)

[]Ceres Rover Delivery
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Launch Cap per Location)(0/15 Locations)

Jupiter (23 Pathfinder days)
[]Observation Array - Jupiter
(0/10 Observation Satellites (6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap) per Satellite)

[]Surface Scan - Callisto
(Required for activation: (6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap) or 5 Pathfinder days)

[]Surface Scan - Ganymede
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap)

[]Surface Scan - Io
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap)

[]Surface Scan - Europa
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap)

[]Observation Probes - Minor Moons + Rings
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap)


Mission Tracker! -- Soon to be discarded
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YAhLAoy0BTHB1CPYHeDffyDNwkrM6_dy7u0PL4yZ8_E/edit?usp=sharing

To Launch Missions, it must be "Ready for Launch" in the mission tracker and the requirements must be fulfilled.

 

[BOTcommander]

SCEDQuest Q3 2059 Results

Tanegashima Space Center (Stage 4) 458/500
With the recent influx of funding the SCED continues expansion of the Tanegashima facilities, the skeletons of new manufacturing complexes quickly filling the rest of the site. Over the three months it quickly becomes clear that both the site and the island will quickly run out of space with the current speed of expansion. Where to go from here is still a debated topic, but the most obvious answer would likely be Earth orbit: Enterprise station could manufacture the heaviest parts out of lunar resources without requiring expensive Leopard or Union space lift and orbital manufacturing capacity is still projected to increase before the end of the current economic budgeting plan.

Tanegashima Station Module Complex 203/200
The station module complex is what its name implies; a cleanroom factory complex dedicated to the manufacturing of station parts. The changing economic situation means the very specialized industrial capacity now established at Tanegashima does not need to be utilized for the manufacturing of simple parts, the time where the SCED was in need of manufacturing everything themselves is coming to a close. Both the division's record and growing reputation, and GDIs expanded Earth- and orbit-based space manufacturing capability offer potential new avenues for outsourcing of production, leaving the SCED's own capabilities for the more specialized and experimental use cases.

New Johnson Training Center (Stage 4) 422/400
The completion of New Johnson is a rather rushed affair, with the SCED's leadership pulled between a dozen issues and problems. The Starbound Party continues to try and utilize the small Exploration Division for campaigning purposes, citing the discoveries of Venus Tiberium, among other things, as a talking point. The leadership and astronauts have been invited to an increased number of interviews and talk shows, in which Commander Leonov had to defend "scanning rocks" more than once. A positive of the renewed media attention has been the increased focus on the Astrotech program, leading to a number of new applicants and the trickle of new Astech staff has increased to a small stream with the completion of the Center.

Tiberium Monitoring Satellite 151/100
The last kinks in the monitoring sat design have been ironed out. The final system is about twice as large as a Hermes probe and uses about twice as much power, focused into a complex high-power radar that should be able to piece through Venus dense clouds. The signature is then recorded by a sensitive detector array on the satellite and sent to Earth, where scientists can figure out changes in the makeup and structure of the Venerian Tiberium field.

Tiberium Heist: Extractor Probe 65/100
The Extractor Probe is highly complex in its simplicity. Miniature electronics have made control and command of individual components easier and easier the more advanced they got, but Venus' environment is deadly to modern platines and chips. As such, if something can be done mechanically, it will be done mechanically, if it can't, it will need to be done with as little computing power as possible. The mechanical valves for the balloon filling process are still causing problems, but should not be insurmountable.

Tiberium Heist: Transfer Drone 157/125
Surprisingly, the transfer drone has been the least of the SCEDs technical problems with the sample return mission. Reminiscent of released technical concepts for the wingman drone program, the by the engineers affectionately named "Roamer" drone is a small, aerodynamic plane coated in a gold based acid resistant material. For thrust the Roamer has a single rocket engine that can switch between an air-breathing mode for greater efficiency in Venus atmosphere or rocket mode for vacuum operations. A bay at the bottom allows for transport of the extractor probe's prize back to Pathfinder. Catching will be done with the help of modern automated navigation algorithms and a mechanized hook.

Tiberium Heist: Tartarus 98/200
Tartarus is as expected the most difficult and complex piece of the heist, necessitating the need for completely new containment solutions. Cooperating with GDIs T-Glass specialists has definitely helped in the creation of the central Tomb system to contain the Tiberium sample, but the most expensive box GDI has ever made still requires the addition and testing of the remainder of the gravitic and cooling systems.

Craterscope 186/300 Nat 1
Planning for the Craterscope has come up with its first problem: heat. While inside the moon's shadow the temperatures fall a very comfortable -180°C, once fully exposed to the unrelenting Sun that number climbs to 106°. The micro servos planned to use in the fine control of the individual mirror elements have been shown to lose their calibration and precision if exposed to such shifts, likely necessitating the need for a new focal point system.

SCEDQuest Q4 2059

This Side Quest was allowed by Ithillid and is supposed to be fun. Things happening in SCEDQuest will be affected by the main one, but unless Ithillid says otherwise it is only semi-canon.

Budget: 125 Capital + 1137 Capital Reserve
Industry Points: 80 IP
Earth Orbit Launch Capacity: 80 per Turn
Pathfinder Time: 90 Days
Astronaut Teams: 2 (+3 per Plan)
Astrotech Teams: -1 (+1 per turn, +1 per year)

Earth-Luna:

Earthside Facilities (Unlimited Dice)

Earth-Industry Points: 80 IP
Earth-Launch Capacity: 80 per Turn

[]Tanegashima Space Center (Stage 4)
With nearly all basic manufacturing needs of the SCED taken care of, it is time to think bigger. The next stage of manufacturing will generally expand manufacturing of common elements in the common part strategy, such as nuts, bolts, microcomputers and reaction control sensors.
(20 Capital per Die 458/500)(+40 E-IP)

[]New Johnson Training Center (Stage 5)
With the pool of qualified astronaut candidates thinning, SCED looks at more specialized personnel to bolster their ranks. Qualifications to become an Astrotech are still fairly high and require the right training and preparation facilities.
(25 Capital per Die 22/400)(+1 Astronaut Team per Plan, +2 Astrotech Team per year)

[]Harper Spaceport Expansion (Phase 1)
While many of SCED's missions are now solar system wide, they still require launching cargo and materials from Earth into space.
(15 Capital per Die 0/100)(+10 E-Launch Cap)

Earth-Orbit Facilities:
[]Gagarin Station (Stage 4)
(0/10 Gagarin Station Parts; 10 E-Launch Cap, 5C and 10 E-IP per Part)(-1 Pathfinder maintenance time, +2 Mission planning die, +1 Research Die)(-3 Astrotech Teams)(For one station part per turn, the E-IP cost is waived)

Lunar Facilities:
[]Advanced Lunar Base Stage 2
Luna is now a barebones research outpost. It needs to be expanded massively in order to fully transform it into a proper research station, able to test the newest technologies in lunar colonization and construction.
(0/10 Facilities; 5C, 5 Launch Cap and 5 E-IP per Facility)(-4 Astrotech Teams, +1 Astronaut Teams)(+1 Development dice, +1 Lunar Die)

[]Lunar Imaging Seismic Array (Phase 1)
LISA can be deployed from orbit, the pods landing and burying their sensors by themselves. The SCED will expand the array region by region, scanning each for available volcanic caves.
(0/10 Sensor Pods; 4C, 2 Launch Cap and 4 E-IP per Sensor Pods)

Martian Facilities (13 Pathfinder days):
[]Initial Martian SCED Research Base
The initial base will follow a similar pattern to the lunar one. A number of prefabricated habitat units, connected to life support and power. However, the different environmental needs require custom-built facilities to deal with the slight atmosphere, windblown dust, and more normalized day-night cycle.
(0/10 Facilities; 7C, 5 Launch Cap and 5 E-IP per Facility)(-1 Astronaut Team)

[]Mars Gate Station
Since Mars is not in Leopard or Union range from Earth, a station needs to be constructed to serve as a gateway between Pathfinder and the groundside bases. From there, fuel, supplies and personnel can be transferred into the Multi-Use Landing Vehicles for transfer between the ground and orbit.
(0/5 Station Parts; 10 E-Launch Cap, 5C and 10 E-IP per Part)(Astrotech Teams - -)(For one station part per turn, the E-IP cost is waived)

Assembly
[]Tiberium Heist Transfer Drone (10 E-IP)

Development (6 Dice) +20
[]Grav Plate Rover Integration 0/250 (8C/Die+8E-IP/Die)
The grav plate technology is ready for integration. Most interesting for the SCED would be using the technology for rovers as the rocky surface of planets make traversal via ground contact wheels difficult. Grav plates would enable rovers to travel vast distances safely at absurd speeds due to the lower air and ground resistance.

[]Radiation Shimmer Shield Development 0/100 (8C/Die+8E-IP/Die)
The Shimmer shield has opened up interesting new measures to protect against interstellar radiation, which mostly consists of high speed electrons and helium cores, for spacecraft, stations, and stationary bases. Such a shield would very likely not protect against much else, but it would enable Pathfinder's crew to remain longer in Jupiter's and Saturn's radiation belts. As someone else has already done much of the tweaking of the shield pattern, all that remains is for the SCED to adopt this technology.

[]Mark II Fusion Engine 75/300 (5C/Die+8E-IP/Die)
By now SCED's engineers have gotten enough data and experience together with advances in fusion, laser, superconductor, and materials technology to begin prototyping a more advanced fusion engine. The current iteration has the problem that once it has finished firing it is very difficult to get going again. The engineers have suggested using laser ignited fusion of small deuterium pellets to quickstart the engine cycle as needed, a concept that will need a large amount of work and prototyping before it can be finished.

[]He3-extraction Experiments 22/100 (2C/Die+1E-IP/Die)
Helium-3 has useful potential applications in fusion technology, as the fusion cycle produces free protons instead of neutrons, which can be more easily tapped for energy, reducing radiation while also increasing efficiency. Extracting He-3 from the regolith however will require unique and new approaches.

[]Tiberium Heist: Extractor Probe 65/100 (2C/Die+3E-IP/Die)
The Extractor Probe will do the first and, in a way, technically most complex part of the operation. Its electronics need to survive in the hot Venus atmosphere long enough to collect a piece of Tiberium and inflate its acid resistant balloons. For this purpose the probe will contain very simple, heat resistant electronics and mechanical systems.

[]Tiberium Heist: Tartarus 98/200 (5C/Die+5E-IP/Die)
Tartarus is the most complex piece of equipment for this operation. Normally GDI would never even consider orbital Tiberium storage solutions but it is probably smart to not let the Venus sample get too close to Earth, and if trillions of tons of moon rock won't stop any kind of interaction, nothing will. The Tomb will require a complex laser cooling system, 3-axis artificial gravity around an airtight T-glass container and Tartarus itself enough power and cooling to run both it and the Inhibitor module indefinitely. A number of battery arrays will be needed to power the satellite throughout its stay in Luna's shadow during a full moon.

Space Command Mission Planning (4 Dice) +5
[]Mission: Orbital Scan (Write-in) (for example: Luna, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter) (Requires one Die)(Gas Giants have the main planet, each major moon, and rings+minor moons as locations)
-Charon (Requires one Die)

[]Mission: Surface Exploration (Write-in) 0/100
-Mercury 0/100
-Pluto 0/100

[]Mission: Manned Landing (Write-in) 0/100
-Ceres(0/100)

[]Mission: Research Base (Write-in) 0/300

[]Voyager Visitation 0/150
The Voyager probes were the first and only of Mankind's creations that reached the Interstellar void between the stars. Their position has long been lost, but it could be extrapolated and, using Pathfinder, the SCED could catch up to their theoretical position to place a higher power beacon next to them and the probes inside a protective, armored shell if found.

[]Asteroid Refining Test (Requires one Die)
By now the SCED has scanned a fair number of asteroids. A few of them are small enough to fit into Pathfinder's loading bay. It would be possible to transport one of these into Earth orbit, so the Enterprise station could experiment with processing techniques.

[]Craterscope 186/300
A lot of initial planning has to be done for the Craterscope: the right crater has to be found, design work done for the actual telescope parts, materials considered, and methods envisioned to protect the telescope from micrometeorites and solar radiation.

Missions
Total Pathfinder Time: 90 days
Current Maintenance time: 3 days

Spoiler: Pathfinder Base Time Requirements (Two way journey time):

Mercury: 9 days
Venus: 9 days
Mars: 10 days
Asteroid Belt: 13 days
Jupiter: 20 days
Saturn: 26 days
Uranus: 36 days
Neptune: 45 days
Pluto: 51 days

Mercury (12 Pathfinder days)
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Venus (12 Pathfinder days)
[]Tiberium Monitoring Array
(0/6 Monitoring Satellites, (5IP, 4 Capital, 2 Launch Cap) per Satellite)

Luna
[]Pardus Mission-Luna
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Manned Mission)
(18/20 Locations surveyed)

Mars (13 Pathfinder days)
[]Rover Delivery-Mars
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Launch Cap per Location)(20/50 locations surveyed)

Asteroid Belt (16 Pathfinder days)
[]Belt Probing (62/80 Objects probed)((6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap) or 5 Pathfinder days per Object probed)

[]Ceres Rover Delivery
(Required for activation: 4IP per Location, 2 Capital per Location, 1 Launch Cap per Location)(0/15 Locations surveyed)

Jupiter (23 Pathfinder days)
[]Observation Array - Jupiter
(0/10 Observation Satellites (6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap) per Satellite)

[]Surface Scan - Callisto
(Required for activation: (6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap) or 5 Pathfinder days)

[]Surface Scan - Ganymede
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap)

[]Surface Scan - Io
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap)

[]Surface Scan - Europa
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap)

[]Observation Probes - Minor Moons + Rings
(Required for activation: 6IP, 3 Capital, 3 Launch Cap)

Vote by Plan. Comments and critiques are welcome.