Mission to the Outer Planets

Mission to the Outer Planets
Research Cost: 75000
Summary
Exploration and exploitation of the icy worlds beyond Saturn will bring us closer to reaching the alien base.
Description
There is much still to learn about the farthest and coldest reaches of our solar system, but, if we can reach them, both Uranus and Neptune offer hope for colonization - or, at least, their moons do. Around Uranus, the satellites Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon offer potential for habitation, while the frozen nitrogen surface of Triton, Neptune's largest moon, likely conceals a subsurface ocean. Beyond Neptune's orbit is the Kuiper belt and the Outer Oort cloud, which contain billions, perhaps even trillions of ice-rich objects. We speculate that, among that great assembly, we will find all the ingredients required for life. The outer planets and beyond are also an abundant source of deuterium and helium-3 with which to meet our fuel needs - all the better to push even further outwards, and finally locate the origin of our alien visitors.
Full List of Prerequisites. Name Type Cost Augmented Reality 1500 Arrival Psychology 5000 Outpost Habs 1000 Mission to Saturn 25000 Deep System Skywatch 1000 Advanced Electromagnetism 1000 Mass Drivers 1000 Skywatch 250 Space Mining and Refining 2500 In Situ Resource Utilization 5000 Deep Space Propulsion Concepts 1000 Space Agriculture 2500 We Are Not Alone 500 Space Research 2500 Biotechnology 1500 Space Medicine 2500 Mission to the Asteroids 3500 Extended Space Survival 10000 Mission To Space 250 Mission to Jupiter 10000 Mission to Mars 2500 Nuclear Fission In Space 2500
Total Research Cost (including itself)
	2000		1500
	22500		0
	0		3000
	128500	Total	157500
Direct Prerequisite For
Techs		Projects
Effects
Allows sending probes to Uranus and Neptune, and construction of habitats in the far Solar System
Allows sending probes to the Kuiper Belt, and construction of habitats there
The number of habitat mining modules we can support without paying a Mission Control cost increases by 6
Factions that contributed more to this tech will complete scans of the space body faster
Quote
"Only when we can look our enemy in the eye can we understand why he is not so different from ourselves. Then, only then, can we hope for peace, Ifechi." Commissioner Kiran Banerjee, The Protectorate From a letter to his partner while stationed in Rwanda
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