Orbitals

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Orbitals
Life Science
researchResearch Cost: 5000
Summary
A second generation of space habitats can hold hundreds of personnel.
Description
With the rudiments of long-term space existence now established, it is time to raise the stakes. More personnel, more improvements to their quality of life, and far more reliability and autonomy - further reducing the need for shipments from Earth. Even if we settle on other worlds, permanent waypoints in the space between them are a necessity if we are to efficiently transport craft, resources, and people between those worlds, and to oversee the many trade routes that spawn from such expansion. It is size that we must now address. Each resident requires a minimum volume of 17 cubic meters of personal space if they are to remain sane for more than a few months, but for orbital existence to become a long-term, large-scale prospect, we must now significantly exceed this baseline. Larger habs and more personnel also mean more of everything else, of course, more oxygen, more food, more medical supplies. Clustered and expandable micro-gravity modules, linked by arterial floataways, have been deemed the most practical approach for now, but once we move from scores of trained personnel to thousands of civilians, we will need not only larger habitats, but also a means of generating gravity.
Full List of Prerequisites.
Name Type Cost
Ad Astra Social Science 5000
Mission To Space Space Science 250
Orbital Shipbuilding Material Science 1000
Outpost Habs Life Science 1000
Mission to the Moon Space Science 1000
Total researchResearch Cost (including itself)
Energy 0 Information Science 0
Life Science 6000 Material Science 1000
Military Science 0 Social Science 5000
Space Science 1250 Total 13250
Direct Prerequisite For
Techs Projects
Ring Habs (100%)Orbital Core
Quote
"We've all gaped in awe at those images of the Earth as seen from space. Beautiful. Divine. But if you saw that same sight every time you looked out the window, wouldn't you grow to hate it?"
Director Khalid Al-Ashgar, Project Exodus
Guest appearance on the podcast "Thinking Bigger".
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