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[10ebbor10]

So, what do we need to fix now?

We need to get the chemkit online, finish the hab dome, and then get back to power as fast as possible.

Oh, we also have 2 broken bots we can fix.

[Aseaheru]

Funfact, a type of plastic can be made from milk and some acids.

Though, it isint the most useful form of plastic in the world.

Yeah, the first plastics were made with simple organic materials as well.  But most of the stuff used in the modern world is from petrochemicals.  That is the primary issue here, basically working with meat, some plants and human waste to make plastics useful for a variety of needs.

 It is totally possible but a bit outside what the VR kit can accomplish, best you will be able to do is a brute force factory until you have real labs work on the problem.

Realized. I think my sleep addled brain just felt like throwing the fact out there.

Although, We have a meat vat, how hard would it to be to get one of those producing the right protein...

[tryrar]

question: how big is the life sciences lab? because it looks like we're really butting into the limitation of only having engineering research. Also, the biodiversity bay comes with the plans for the lab, so it shouldn't be too hard to build the lab from the bay.

Also, ouch about that guy's leg. Looks like he'll either be bot wrangling or running the factory.

Edit: things that I definitely want to happen:

Factory helping finish off outstanding construction(the chem plant and the living dome)

Second large dome built

Getting the life sciences lab started

doing an atmospheric analysis and getting an industrial air mixer up and running to exploit it for oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen.

[tryrar]

bumpety bump

[Amperzand]

We need a plan! I am far too lazy/busy to make one.

[tryrar]

we need our action slots

[VoidSlayer]

Turn 16 actions needed:

Normal Actions:

Unassigned Slots 3 manpower available (27 base - 3 (leader) -13 assigned - 7 passive -1 injured)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

*[0/1] My First Factory kit +20/+30:

* [0/1] Heavy Bot
   - Construction: +5 penalty :
   - Conversion : +15 bonus to another construction action :

* [0/2] Maintenance and Vehicle Bay
    - Maintenance and Repair Action, +10 to repair vehicles:
    - Construction [0/8] : Labor intensive for regular construction
         - Conversion : +10 to another maintenance or Construction action:
    - Art and Sundries [0/1] : Moral bonus

* Multi-Chemical Production Facility
        [no manpower] Purify and mix air and water
        [no manpower] mix chemicals:
Currently Purifying water

* [0/4] Satellite Survey
    - Exploration action  (+10 bonus) :
    - Conversion : Can provide a +10 bonus to an appropriate mining, engineering or science action.
    -


* [0/?] Manpower action
     - Manpower : Does anything possible at a -20+X modifier, where X is manpower.
     - Conversion : A Manpower action can be converted to a +X bonus to any type of action, where X is the amount of people involved.

Available Projects

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*  Surface Armored Domes (S/M/L/H)
*  Additional CCdomes: Inner circle near ship, extend outer circle towards canyons or mountains. (large)
*  Living Space (S/M/L/H)
*  Hydroelectric stations and dam.
*  Geothermal stations
*  6x6 Bradbury MRV.
*  Underground base plans completed, any dug out underground areas will follow plan.  Huge, large medium and small caverns can be built, small and medium will create a central access point.
*  Drainage and rain collection can be added to any base project.  Dedicated storage tanks can be built (just specify size).
*  Quake proofing can be added to any building or cavern.  New above ground at +5 labor, existing and caves more expensive.
*  Rebuild single exo suit project 75/175 progress
*  Rebuild Heavy Bot mech 200/450
*  Labor Management Office, 1 manpower, small, 100 labor, 1 MW, up to 20 industrial slots managed

*  Distant mineral exploration.
*  Cavern exploration.
*  Geothermal exploration

- Industrial Expert Systems (-50) (fully automated Labor Management)
- Human-Robot Labor Interfacing (-30) (More consistent results from bots)
- Specialized Exo Suits (-30) (several designs for more efficient but limited scope exo suits)
- Manufactorium (-40) (Scaled up (huge) version of the My First Factory Kit)
- Alternative Basic Construction Materials (-10)
- Transportation Solutions (bonus to prototyping new transportation systems, free transport - system designs) (-10)
- Cryogenic Damage Repair (-60) not possible without advanced medical facilities
- Bio-Fuels research can be developed at -20
- Bio-Plastics research can be developed at -30
- Experimental Glass can now be researched at -50
- Experimental Metals can now be researched at -50
- Alternative Smelting Techniques can be researched at -50

- Nitrogen/Carbon Dioxide atmosphere (not researched) (limitless)
- Rainwater (not researched) (trivial amounts + river)
- Greenish sand (Copper-silicates) (abundant)
- Dark Black-Red mineral (not researched) (small but sufficient)
- Densely packed dark sand (small but sufficient)

Assigned Slots 13 manpower

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[1/4] VR CAD
    - Engineering slot: Bio Plastics +20(skunkworks)
    VR Pod bonus Choose 1:
   - Reduce Engineering slot manpower to [0/1]
    - add VR Recreation Slot [0/1]: Moral bonus

* Optronic Central Computer
        Counts as 5 manpower for trivial tasks (can operate 50 trivial facilities)
        Choose 1:
            +30 bonus to one of virtually any construction, engineering, mining, science or maintenance action
            [2/2] Engineering (design only, same as your VR project) slot at +20: Medium/large Cement Plant

* [2/2] Medical Bay.
    - Research (Medical) : No bonus:
    - Crisis Mitigation / Healthcare : Reduce impact of critical failures
    - Wake Up Crew: Up to 10 per month, +0 roll with 1 manpower, +20 with 2 manpower, +40 with 2 month wake up and 2 crew Waking up 10 crew at +40

* [1/1] Powered Exo-skeleton Constructor Units
   - Construction: -5 penalty : Build Chem plant Kit from parts 85/150
   - Conversion : +10 bonus to another construction action :

* [2/2] Powered Exo-skeleton Constructor Units
   - Construction : +10 bonus : Large Living Dome 154/325
   - Conversion : +20 bonus to another construction action

* [2/2] Bradbury MRV
     Exploration action at +0
    Assist construction or mining 1 slot at +10 or 2 slots at +0 assisting CCdomes and Large living dome
     Note: Eliminate distance penalties for short range ~10 km for any slots/exploration worked on
     Note: Reduced penalties for medium distances ~25 km
     Note: Can allow long distances which would otherwise be impossible ~100 km
     Note: Can reduce penalties for distant buildings and facilities.

[2/2]Digging and Drilling Vehicles +10: 3 large CC domes Inner Ring

* Medium Mineral Processing Facility MPF
      [1 manpower] for general production; +5 to basic construction or +10 to advanced materials construction(these will be more difficult to make anyway) to one project. Eliminate relevant material related penalties to 2 projects. Support Exos by processing banded iron
       [2 manpower] Geology and Material Sciences science slot at +0

Passive Slots 7 manpower

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* Multi-Chemical Production Facility
        [no manpower] Purify and mix air and water

* [1/1] Recreational Commons
    Moral bonus

* [1/1] Group Activities (Team cobra special)
    Moral bonus

* [1/1] Meat vat Food for 20 10 people
* [0/1] Troubleshoot Colony Computer [Usefulness unknown]
* [3/3] Large Closed Loop Life support
* [1/1] Duel Core Fusion Reactors : 1 running, 1 may be damaged

Bonuses and penalties :

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Sandstorm
-10 to all surface work
Distances increased by one step.  Adjacent buildings are now a short distance away, giving a -10 penalty.

Natalia Delacruz
  Skunkworks: +20 to one engineering or prototyping action per turn.  +10 to all other engineering or prototyping actions.
  Scheduling Nightmare: -10% rounded up manpower (-3 currently)
  Site Manager: +20 to one construction or industrial action
  Overstretched: +5 bonus to any action (besides manpower) at the cost of 1 extra manpower.  Up to 4 per project.

If You Build It
Barn Raising: One construction action at +20
Industrial Priority: +10 to all other construction actions
And the kitchen sink: Resource inefficiency

Should be everything.  Had to double check that manpower shortage... it seems correct...

[tryrar]

Spoiler: Unassigned Slots (click to show/hide)

*[1/1] My First Factory kit +20/+30:Build needed parts for hab dome, rollover to building parts needed to convert diversity bay to a full life sciences lab(+20 Site manager, +10 industrial Priority)

* [1/1] Heavy Bot
   - Construction: +5 bonus:Take over for the solo exo in building chem plant
   - Conversion : +15 bonus to another construction action :

* [1/2] Maintenance and Vehicle Bay
    - Maintenance and Repair Action, +10 to repair vehicles:
    - Construction [0/8] : Labor intensive for regular construction
         - Conversion : +10 to another maintenance or Construction action:
    - Art and Sundries [1/1] : Moral bonus

* Multi-Chemical Production Facility
        [no manpower] Purify and mix air and water
        [no manpower] mix chemicals:
Currently Purifying water

* [0/4] Satellite Survey
    - Exploration action  (+10 bonus) :
    - Conversion : Can provide a +10 bonus to an appropriate mining, engineering or science action.
    -


* [0/?] Manpower action
     - Manpower : Does anything possible at a -20+X modifier, where X is manpower.
     - Conversion : A Manpower action can be converted to a +X bonus to any type of action, where X is the amount of people involved.

Spoiler: Changes to assigned slots (click to show/hide)

[1/4] VR CAD
    - Engineering slot: Switch to Transportation Solutions(Skunkworks)
    VR Pod bonus Choose 1:
   - Reduce Engineering slot manpower to [0/1]
    - add VR Recreation Slot [0/1]: Moral bonus

* [1/1] Powered Exo-skeleton Constructor Units
   - Construction: -5 penalty : Build Chem plant Kit from parts 85/150
   - Conversion : +10 bonus to another construction action :

Since the brute force approach for bioplastics looks to be inefficient, it'd be better to hold off until we can get the life sciences lab up and running to gene-engineer the proper plants for it. Might still need some engineering time, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Meanwhile, since we're planning to get started on the dam once the storms lift and all outstanding construction is finished up, it'd probably be nice to have a system to actually get staff out to the completed power station other than a 2km hike or hogging the Bradbury

Speaking of the Bradbury, was it only the cargo module that got build or did the survey packages and the crew transport packages get built also?

[Aseaheru]

We might want to look into digging a tunnel to the Dam site or some sort of tram to it. Possibly a tram in a tunnel.

Yes, I know we dont need it yet, but it would be a nice thing in future.

[Amperzand]

If we could get a stable base to lay rail, a straight-up train could be pretty useful. If that's overly difficult, expanding our underground network strikes me as good.

[10ebbor10]

Don't forget we still have a broken Heavy mech and Exo we can fix.

[tryrar]

Don't forget we still have a broken Heavy mech and Exo we can fix.

Yeah, but we're one manpower short of manning the repair bay for full efficiency to do so(otherwise I'd have gotten started on that  rather than doing some art:P)

Next project I want to get to though is less bulky survival suits for Kara's environment. I'm imagining that we'd really only need breath masks and maybe small pressure bladders(how survivable IS 0.5 atm anyways?)

[VoidSlayer]

So from what I can read the pressure itself is not an issue.  The primary concerns are having sufficiently sealed masks and going back and forth into higher pressure environments. 

Right now you are using hard vacsuits designed to protect against the extremes of space, so you have been okay.

You will certainly need to study and design a new suit system to survive on this planet.

[VoidSlayer]

Also I am going to go with Ttyrar's plan for now, going to start rolling in a few hours.

[tryrar]

We could always slowly start to adjust base pressure to match the native atmosphere, maybe altering the oxygen ration a bit to compensate. That way we really would only need to use sealed facemasks and portable oxygen tanks. We would keep a couple sets of vacsuits for things like if we manage to find good uranium/thorium deposits and set up a fission reactor.