Kinda combined the ideas for the mining. Time to dig deep and strike the
earth wait what was the planet's name again?
27 - 2 bad planning = 25
* [1/1] Heavy Bot Mech
- Construction : +5 bonus +30 (MFFK) - 20 (New World): Construct and build a medium mineral processor in one of the domes
- Mining : +5 bonus
- Conversion : +15 bonus to another construction or mining action
* [1/1] Powered Exo-skeleton Constructor Units
- Construction : -5 penalty + 10 (Machine shop) : Install our biodiversity bay in the Medium cargo bay, there should be enough space with all the kits removed, right ?
- Conversion[/b] : +10 bonus to another construction action :
* [2/2] Powered Exo-skeleton Constructor Units
- Construction : +10 bonus : Install our Multi-Chemical Production Facility kit in one of the domes
- Conversion : +20 bonus to another construction action
* [2/2]Digging & drilling vehicles.
- Mining : +10 bonus : do some resource gathering, Just follow the veins! Prepare for another CC dome
- Conversion : +10 to underground or other construction where appropriate
* [2/2] Damage Control & machine shop
- Maintenance and Repair Action:
- Construction [0/8] : Labor intensive for regular construction
- Conversion : +10 to another maintenance or Construction action : Support bio-diversity bay installation
- Art and Sundries [0/1] : Moral bonus
*[1/1] My First Factory kit
- Construction/production : +20
- Engineering action : +0
- Conversion : +20 to another engineering action or +30 to another construction action : Support mineral processor
- Basic production : Can consume resources to produce basic or advanced parts
* [2/2] Medical Bay.
- Research (Medical) : No bonus : Continue Cryo research. No autopsy.
- 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.
* [1/4] VR CAD
- Engineering slot :
VR Pod bonus Choose 1:
- Reduce Engineering slot manpower to [0/1] : Investigate the possibility for geothermal power generation. Focus on a modular, 50 MW design. (+10 New World)
- 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 : +20 : Focus effort on the 150 MW canyon design (+20 Natalia)
* [4/4] Satellite Survey
- Exploration action (+10 bonus) : Continue hydrological and mineral survey. Also note geothermal resources, if any are found.
- Conversion : Can provide a +10 bonus to an appropriate mining, engineering or science action.
* [0/24] 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.
* [1/1] Recreational Commons
Moral bonus
* [1/1] Group Activities (Team cobra special)
Moral bonus
* Misc Manpower Needs
- [1/1] Troubleshoot Colony Computer [Usefulness unknown]
- [3/3] Large Closed Loop Life support
- [1/1] Duel Core Fusion Reactors :
Bonuses and penalties :
New World
+10 repair and maintenance actions (Sure it is broken, but if we just move this part over...)
+10 to one engineering and prototyping action per turn (Everyone brainstorm new ideas)
Resource Efficiency (We need to do more with less)
-20 to one construction action per turn (Why am I doing this the old way?)
Natalia Delacruz - A star ship designer who was tasked to lead development of the systems used in the Ark and Outpost ships. She oversaw the creation of the Ark cryo pods and Expert tested reactors before launch. Some blame her lax leadership style for the failure of the drop pod project.
Skunkworks: +20 to one engineering or prototyping action per turn.
Scheduling Nightmare: -2 manpower
(54+10+5+30-20) 89/200 completed in dome 2
Work on the mineral processor starts off following the now standardized system, picking up parts off the factory right as they are built in time for the next operation. The system slows down considerably while fabricating the more complex parts of the ore separator and the Bot is left standing around for quite a bit of the month.
This is the first complex machine designed and built completely on planet and a more organized way to coordinated manufacturing and placement is considered, along with dedicated transportation systems.
Industrial Coordination (bonus to conversions) can now be researched.
Transportation Solutions (bonus to prototyping new transportation systems, free transport system designs) can now be researched.
* Install biodiversity bay in medium cargo bay. (77-5+10) Success
Clearing out the medium bay proves rather simple, scrap metal, crates and packing plastic are swept up and the banks of computers, cryogenic tubes and seed banks are neatly place along one side of the bay away from the entrance. A work area is set up to help sort and extract components, although it is far from a real research center.
It becomes clear that the large cargo bay will require significant work before being useful in the same way, possibly even more work then building an entirely new dome. Overall there is quite a bit of excitement over the prospect of new foods and growing some solutions to problems, although it is all a bit overblown without building a life sciences lab.
The mud from the entrance is also cleared away to move the other components out, although it is clear this will be a repeated task. Many are calling for them to just give up and turn the whole bay into something that can be accessed only from inside the ship, like a lab or an axuillary medical treatment center.
Biodiversity bay accessible, bonus to most life sciences research.Medium cargo bay half filled. A small, limited life sciences lab or other smaller installation could be placed inside as well.
* Install our Multi-Chemical Production Facility kit in one of the domes (60+10-10) Success
High winds and rain dog the efforts to move parts of the kit across the open air and into domes. Piping and pumps are sturdy and easy to haul. Transport of the more complex parts needs more steady handling and the high winds and rain prevent that from happening. The suddenly they stop altogether.
The weather satellite is busy cataloging what happened while the mechs hurry the components across in what they think is a brief interruption. Work can finally begin in earnest and the chemical processor is installed in the third large dome. Power up testing and checklists need to be run through but the system should be up and running at the end of the month, it is hooked up to the ship's life support air and water systems as well as the rainwater capture pump system. A small hole is opened in the top of the dome flush with the surface for a vent directly to and from the outside air.
The clash of the two weather systems not only stops here but the abated weather spreads outwards along the coast. Thin showers intermittently hit the ship for the rest of the month and the tropical storm system breaks down completely before hitting.
Multi-Chemical Production Facility kit installed in dome 3.* Dig deep! (68+10) Progress 68/100 large underground dome
Surface sampling is downright out given the conditions seen at the beginning of the month so a plan to follow the hardened minerals further down is put together. First a dome will be completed at the end of a gradual downward slope, then further mine shafts can be dug out. This falls in line with the previously developed plan, two of the areas which would have been huge domes may become excavated areas depending on what is found, while the large dome can branch off into a central ring of small and medium underground domes.
The access shaft proves as difficult as the surface excavation, with varying materials slowing progress, however just a few meters below the rock evens out into the slate, the dark red-black harden material and a new black-sliver compact sand. While the varied materials are still a challenge they are more evenly spaced and part of the cavern is mined out. Concerns are raised about the stability of the different rock formations together and plans are made to reinforce several areas with steel, concrete or heat welding before long term use of the area.
Black-silver sand analysis now available.
Slate and Dark Red-Black minerals are now sufficient for production as long as mining continues.* Continue cryo research (60+10-30) Slow Progress
While the primary concern of the doctors is not addressed, the suggestion of taking limited samples from non-invasive tissues from the cryogenic frozen is taken up as an avenue to research the theoretical problems.
Skin samples and hair follicles are removed from several patients and the cryogenic frozen after a general meeting to discuss and vote on the matter before the entire awake crew. Though of dubious investigative use thanks to a long time out of the pods, the most of the crew choose to have the same area of skin and hair removed in a show of solidarity with their frozen friends and colleagues.
Only a few samples are actually collected from the pods this month as there is still much to be done in determining the best way to analyze the samples.
+5 to ongoing cryogenics investigation research (+15 total)* Design modular 50 MW geothermal plant (62+10) Progress
The first thing which becomes obvious is that new heat resistant tools for digging will need to be developed to reach down into the layers of rock needed for the plant. While the sensors on the drilling machines will greatly help constructions and they can survive the temperatures for limited times, simulations quickly prove that they would burn out eventually. Something similar to an oil well drill is developed, it would be reusable, and can be moved to different areas to drill additional holes while the digging machines do the bulk of the work at the surface.
The tools are decided on, a plant starts being developed and then it is realized they need slightly different specialized tools to help in the construction. Several redesigns end up without a functioning plant being developed this turn.
+15 to ongoing work.* Focus effort on the 150 MW canyon design (88+20+20) Success
Natalia lays the groundwork for not just the 150MW design but several extra options to provide additional power and control over the water flow. It is estimated that two separate power stations of similar design can be built here, one shorter and one on a slightly taller dam, with a total power output of 300 MW. Plans are drawn up for a larger system to plug the start of the canyon to control water flow and create a great reservoir which given weather systems should allow almost unlimited water for generating power.
She even designs a smaller modular dam system which can be place around the edges of the canyon and valley to further control the water and prevent it from leaking out elsewhere.
It is clear that while metal could be used in most of these, concrete or large blocks of quarried stone would be much more practical for the main structure. While the smaller first stage 150MW plant would need relatively little material and be mostly carved into the canyon, other parts to expand and strengthen the system will almost certainly need a large amount of moved earth and stone.
When the final designs are unveiled several of the crew are unimpressed. Most of them are actually presupposed from the VR building frenzy that overtook the ship in the final decade of travel...
150 MW canyon plant designed 500 work 2 basic parts(unless MFFK used) minor resource hog, unless stone/concrete is accessible
150 MW second stage canyon plant designed800 work 2 basic parts(unless MFFK used) resource hog, unless stone/concrete is accessible
Canyon/Valley Flood Control Dam designed 1200 work resource hog, unless stone/concrete is accessible
Valley flood control modular gap dams (dedicated survey needed for estimate)Note: All parts are not needed to begin benefiting right away.
Note: Each power plant and the dam would need 1 manpower each for reasonably safe runnng.
* Continue hydrological and mineral survey (9+10+15) Simple Failure
Contact is lost with both satellites this month for unknown reasons. While some of the group continues pouring over existing data, the rest try again and again to reconfigure the commsat to get in contact. Eventually contact is made and a hard reboot restores functionality, although some data is lost in the process, and the month is a total waste.
Work on the dome systems have brought the base about halfway to the canyon and decisions need to be made on where the next phase of expansion will be. Further projects will start to be more difficult due to distance to both recharge and restaff the vehicles, but a connected underground base to nearby the hydropower site would help speed up the project.
Alternatively new CCdomes could be built in an inner circle closer to the ship, not suffering from distance issues.
The underground mining also needs to be directed once the large chamber is excavated. Should the team dig out away from the base into huge caverns meant primarily for ore acquisition or inwards to complete a series of core medium and small spaces around spiraling access shaft. Further large caverns could also be dug out.
Concerns are raised that the back of the ship is looking quite denuded. While the resource rich core of the thruster is still there the steel, aluminum, titanium and other structural materials are quickly being used up.
The weather stays clear for almost half the month, while there is some serious concern about there now being too little rain the river seems to be flowing steadily still.
Turn 9Expansion plans: Choose one or more or give priorities. Or something. A. Extend CCdomes to the canyon (about 4 more)
B. Build inner CCdome ring (above central spiral area, part of long term plan)
C. Begin mining and deep mineral exploration in huge caverns on the outside of the colony ring system (underground, split off from the large cavern.
D. Begin excavation of inner spiral access, small and medium cavern spaces
E. Other plans, hey they are flexible
Actions:You should probably staff and decide what to do with the chemical plant.
Any life sciences research at this point would be a manpower action with a slight bonus.
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