DALES Orders:Continue with ship monitoring and research help.
Research Orders:Finish Heavy Bot Swarm Logic
Medical Event:Cryo until landfall
Corollary: Criminal crewman who started fight has to apologize and be put on punishment detail for a few months
VR Goggles: Free Entertainment(Call of Duty XX anyone? 
). If we have free runtimes at any point, have the coder start on a basic VR CAD
Turn 3 2087 - 2092Maintenance -5 (79-5=74) Good Success
Moral -8 -5 poor entertainment +10 Plants (9-3=6) Fail
Research +60 (74+60=134) Success, bonus to further research
Other: VR CAD (77) Ongoing development
Opinions are split on what to do with the crewman who caused the injuries, while everyone agreed that zero-g recovery was a poor idea. All four are put in cryo, to be dealt with at a later time.
The VR Entertainment programs are quickly adapted from existing computer games and training software while humorous attempts by DALES to automatically build programs from existing media are distracting but relatively unsuccessful. One hybrid human designed, DALES moderated program it does work well with is a 'museum' type function making viewing art more intuitive and engaging then just flipping through files. The functions are very basic but it provides an extra entertainment option.
Confinement has always cause issues with mental health, even the gilded cage is still a cage. When the graffiti started showing up no one even paid much attention, when brutally violent images were burned into several hallway walls no one admitted to doing it. Crew moral is at an all time low throughout the five years and there just doesn't seem to be much to fix it besides contact with lots of different people and space to not be staring at the same metal walls. -5 to moral ongoing due to graffiti -.1 basic supplies (stolen to make graffiti) -8 penalty carried over to next shift
Sometimes it seems the only thing that really keeps people going is the ongoing repairs, a new method to shut down systems and take them apart to make dedicated repairs is put into place, minor repairs are made easier and plans are made to fix up some of the routine damage that has been building up. During the turnover a look over the Fusion Rocket system and bio dome as well as an external spacewalk find only minor, expected damage well within operational standards.
Research on the Heavy Bot swarm logic is interrupted by new ideas for how to use and make the bots. Plans are drawn up for giant robots, dedicated systems and even smaller super swarm bots. Despite the lack of focus the program is finished. There are practical limitations of the Heavy Bot design, but multiple Heavy bots will be now be much more effective. Heavy Bot swarm logic completed (When working on the same task Two bots add +5, 3 add +10, 5 add +15, 8 add +20, bonus is to each individual Heavy Bot working on the task) New research options : Super Heavy Bots +20 ; Specialized Heavy Bots +20; Small Bots +20 (These will provide a bonus to prototyping Bots of these types when finished, the +20 means that researching them will be easier)
The DALES system seems to be improving in research assistance, it is automatically bringing up new information, keeping track of errors and can even do basic programing and design work automatically when given specific parameters. There is still a lot of room for improvement to it's abilities however. Research dedicated bonus increased to +20/30
A VR Computer Aided Design program is easy to make by adapting some DALES functions and a similar one from the lab. Without a 3D printer or manufacturing area however the practical use of the system is disputed. A complex physics simulator is begun to allow the program to estimate how functional the designs will actually be. +25 to ongoing development
Turn 4 2092 - 2097
Maintenance -5
Moral -8 -5 +5
Research +10
DALES orders:Research(+20), maintenance(+?),
moral(+?), other
Research Orders: Super Heavy Bots +20 ; Specialized Heavy Bots +20; Small Bots +20 ; VRCAD +25; Other
Other Orders: VRCAD, graffiti, something else?
Maintenance orders: You can spend .1 basic supplies to repair the existing -5 maintenance penalty (no roll, automatic success thanks to roll turn 3)
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