Well for starters we are pretty much continuing Nikola Tesla's legacy.We need a beam that makes the victim attract electricity at a high rate.Add in big tesla coils and give them Tesla death.
The R.D. team has other priorities than what you want it to do. See submitted and completly ignored list. I don't like the fact that you just decided to let them do whatever you want without having a consensus. Or any kind of agreement really.
-Continue the algae management plan
-Use a retrovirus to modify the excisting algae to be easier to use. ( Ie Less focus on growth, more focus on easiness of being refined)
-Check what the future climate of Aries will be ( Ie calculate future oceans location/ rainshadows and such)
- Seed planet with cyanobacteria and other to create a stable microenvironnement
- Place plants in relevant future biomes( No Rainforests in futuree deserts and such)
- Find a piece of to be flooded land that hasn't flooded yet and place a hydroelectrical power plant there
- Tech
-Quantum computing
-Nano assemblers
-Strong magnetic generators( For magnetic anti rad fields, Microparticle shields bullet deflection, and cloacking ships)
-Work on nuclear fusion. ( We have giant laser lenses, this should be trivial)
- Design a very strong pod to locate the Uv senders.
-If we have time and we really need to: Continue with the improbable and probably impossible Tesla beam.
Note: This thing hasn't got a consensus either, but at least it got 33% of the votes and everyone else withholded.