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Summary: | |
Her Majesty's Star Ship Lollipop, named and often referred to as | |
“The good ship" in the spirit of whimsy which inspired the Canadian | |
Dominion at its height, was launched by the Ministry of Space from | |
the Hongfu shipyards orbitting Titan on AS 4878 / 2181 CE. The | |
launch was officiated by Queen Nadie II herself. While titularly a | |
Canadian mission, the ship played host to an intercommunitarian crew | |
under auspices of the recently organized Solar Community. | |
The primary mission for HMSS Lollipop was as a secondary stage | |
scout for scientific outpost implantation. It was for a permanent | |
outpost of 500 standard anthropometres which the Canadian Dominion | |
had been granted conditional license by the SC Interstellar | |
Consensus. But it was tacitly understood that the Lollipop was to | |
investigate Proxima Centauri b for prospective Terran | |
inhabitation. It was the second such mission to PC since the ill | |
fated Lunar Syndicate probe Sylvan had been destroyed in a stellar | |
flare in 4858 had caused most stakeholders to declare the PC system | |
unfit for Terran life. However a reappraisal of the data recovered | |
by deep space telemetry stations suggested a potential for life yet | |
remained on Proxima Centauri b. | |
HMSS Lollipop held an intercommunal crew of 3^3/42 class Jia | |
robots, 108 humans, 5 Jovian Hurrumirr-subtype63, and 8 bottlenose | |
dolphins. Of these all but 15 were in hibernation. The Patel-V | |
hibernation tank was developped specially for the Lollipop mission, | |
enabling expected decantation mortalities to drop under 10% for the | |
first time. There were also biotic wards of lesser sentients, | |
plants, fungi, robota, Jovianae, and microbae massing at 956 | |
tonnes. | |
The primary drive for traversing the 4.244 ly to Proxima Centauri | |
was one of the first Orion drives approved by the SC since WWIII | |
and the postbellum Compact had outlawed nuclear explosives within | |
the orbit of Plutocharon. The Lollipop was expected to reach a | |
midpoint speed of ~0.3c, with a ETT of ~28y. Ion propulsion and | |
prototype Muon drives were to be used once in the PC system. | |
See Also: | |
Proxima Centauri b-Jia | |
Proxima Centauri b-Yi | |
Proxima Centauri b-Bing | |
Proxima Centauri c | |
毗鄰星b甲 | |
HMSS Lollipop - Ship Log | |
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