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[WillowLuman]

Carla grabs her EVA suit and struggles into it. Once outfitted, she proceeds to assist Jason with the solar panels.

In which direction? Come to think about it, it might be good to establish some convention for that. The capsule has landed near the asteroid's axis of rotation, on a big, flat side facing (mostly) towards the sun. It's hard to see from the surface, as it's still pretty big, but it's basically like a giant space potato in shape.

Carla grabs her EVA suit and struggles into it. Once outfitted, she proceeds to assist Jason with the solar panels.

Jason walks outside and looks at those staring out into the horizon and speaks out in a loud but friendly voice. "Well come on guys! Let's get to work." He then moves to relocate and calibrate the solar panels.

Zero gets in his evosuit and leaves to prospect the asteroid, and to move the solar panels around to better points as best he can.

It's not too hard to get them down, especially with the low gravity, though moving takes some practice. However, it takes less than an hour to get them affixed to the surface, where they won't be blocked by the capsule, what with everyone helping.

[crazyabe]

I Prospect for deposits of Ice and visible metals.

[VoidSlayer]

I am hoping for a better home, you know, free of the prejudices and lies of the old one.  There is little left for me back there now anyway.

Anyway, once we can, setting up additional solar panels so we have less energy restraints is a good plan.

Interface with the pod systems to determine if there is anything wrong, then scan nearby space for anything using the Radar.

[~Neri]

Fee is just wandering the asteroid. Mainly looking for interesting and or shiny things.

[WillowLuman]

I Prospect for deposits of Ice and visible metals.

Fee is just wandering the asteroid. Mainly looking for interesting and or shiny things.

The asteroid, though small compared to a lot of things in space, is still pretty huge when you're on the surface of it. It'd probably take several hours to circumnavigate it, perhaps even more that 24 going around the lengthier end of the potato. There's a lot of surface to explore.

Fee, having set out while Zero was helping with the solar panels, has a bit of a head start. The surface probably isn't to exciting for the most part, being a dusty, uneven place of dull brown and grey, but after heading towards a visible lump for a bit, she finds a large fissure or crater, containing something much shinier than the surroundings. Looks like a deposit of some kind of ice, about an hour's walk from the capsule.

Zero heads out in a different direction. This not being an M-type asteroid, metals on their own are pretty unlikely, but about 45 minutes from camp, he finds a moderately sized crater, with something black poking out of the dust at the bottom. Looks like there could be a fair-sized, intact iron meteorite buried there, though there'd be no wave of excavating it to check at the moment.

I am hoping for a better home, you know, free of the prejudices and lies of the old one.  There is little left for me back there now anyway.

Anyway, once we can, setting up additional solar panels so we have less energy restraints is a good plan.

Interface with the pod systems to determine if there is anything wrong, then scan nearby space for anything using the Radar.

Everything seems just as nominal as before the landing. In fact, moreso, now that the solars are at a better position. The surrounding space seems clear for now, though you're realizing that the asteroid blocks you from seeing anything on the other side of it.

[crazyabe]

I return to the pod to retrieve a Pulverizer so I can dig up that meteor.

[Fr0stByt3]

Val grabs an EVA suit, muttering and cursing to herself as she puts it on. "I get out of th' damn room, but do I get to enjoy it? No! 'Cause there isn't a damn atmosphere here! Bah!"

After donning the suit, Val starts exploring the asteroid, looking for a good place to start making her home. Preferably somewhat isolated.

[Detoxicated]

Vishnu begins taking dirt samples, and attempts to check for its fertility level.

[WillowLuman]

Val grabs an EVA suit, muttering and cursing to herself as she puts it on. "I get out of th' damn room, but do I get to enjoy it? No! 'Cause there isn't a damn atmosphere here! Bah!"

After donning the suit, Val starts exploring the asteroid, looking for a good place to start making her home. Preferably somewhat isolated.

Living alone isn't going to be feasible: it will take the efforts of everyone to construct more suitable habitat outside the pod. That was the whole plan, after all. Though perhaps once you expand some, you'll have a room to yourself.

I return to the pod to retrieve a Pulverizer so I can dig up that meteor.

You take the 45 minute walk back. As it's another 45 minutes to get back to the site, perhaps it'd be best to help the others start excavating for construction here, or if you really wanted, to convince them to come help.

Vishnu begins taking dirt samples, and attempts to check for its fertility level.

The asteroid is covered in a lifeless, dusty regolith, containing none of the things that make Earth's soil nourishing. However, traditional farming probably wasn't going to work in space anyway. Luckily your group has the blueprints to build more hydroponics units.

[~Neri]

Remember location. Keep exploring. Can bug others to dig later.

[Detoxicated]

Offer to help dig up that meteor, take a pulverizer
"Solar panels and hydroponics need to be constructed ASAP, as our survival is most important. I would like to join Mr. Zero there to go on an excavation, as we could surely use some resources."

[crazyabe]

"Come along then."

[StrawBarrel]

Carla grabs the third and final pulverizer. She never used the pulverizer or done any type of mining before, but she quickly surmises it can not be too hard. Carla joins up with Vishnu and Zero.

[WillowLuman]

Zero leads Carla and Vishnu back to the crater to get to work on uncovering the meteorite, leaving the others without power tools. They descend into the crater and get to work. The meteorite is mostly buried in powder, which isn't exactly what the pulverizers were designed to dig, but the three of them do manage to uncover more of the meteorite. Looks like the whole thing's probably the size of a small car, so it'd be a bit tricky to get it out and move it right now. You might be able to break it up into chunks and haul it back, though you're not currently equipped to process it either, and it might be better to get started on construction today.

During that time, Fee continues her wandering, not finding much more than dunes and bumps, but she stumbles across the others at their crater.

[armach]

Jason dusts his gloves off and turns on his suit's radio. "Good mornin'... or afternoon everyone, can't really tell. Anyways, now that we have the panels set up we should talk about expansion. I think we should move underground until we are stable enough to expand on the surface. I already have some basic plans drawn out for the first room. Look them over and voice any concerns."

The Blueprints