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This is Major Tom to Ground Control / I’m stepping through the door
WHO: You!
WHERE: International Moon Research Base Project Headquarters just outside of De Chima; and, The Moon
WHEN: Various dates, starting in November but the project will be ongoing throughout December
WHAT: Plans to build the International Moon Research Base are underway! Government, public, and imPort collaboration on the project varies from casual picnic to highly technical science. Visitors are welcome, and everyone involved in the project should, well, get involved! Prompts below.
WARNINGS: Let me know if anything needs it! Also, look, I did my best for accuracy but I am not a Science so. I did my best.
EARTH - Welcome Tent
The most casual and welcoming site of the project headquarters, the Welcome Tent is set up next to a big open field. The weather is beautiful and warm today, and many parts of the project have been brought outside. With so many people collaborating, the interior spaces tend to get more crowded, so everyone’s enjoying the opportunity to work outside. There are plenty casual picnickers here to spectate, but there are also a wide variety of scientists, administrators, and imPorts hard at work on all the varied parts of the project.
EARTH - Warehouse / Laboratory spaces
Most of the more earnest research and projects are being conducted inside the adjacent warehouse, office, and laboratory spaces. If you signed up to work on the project in some capacity, you will have a dedicated—or perhaps shared—workbench and all the components and tools that you need. Considerable government money has been spent in outfitting this project, and every imPort involved has been personally considered and accommodated. The moon base is being built in the spirit of cooperation and collaboration, so work on your projects and help out on the projects of others! Even moral support is much appreciated, and many of the imPorts who had enthusiasm but not skill have been given jobs as assistants or caterers.
EARTH/MOON - Porter Access Area
The Porter Access Area is the most carefully guarded and restricted area of the site. If you step through the Porter here, you’ll be on the Moon—which could mean instant death if you’re not protected by powers or a space suit. But the dock area around the Porter is lively with people in and out of space suits. The construction of the International Moon Research Base is being carried through the Porter in pieces, which means that all pieces have to be small enough to be carried through, and there are many, many pieces to transport. Lively coordination is happening all around. If you have a project, maybe you want to make sure that it’s transported with care. If you don’t have a project, maybe you’d like to help out as a Porter for a bit? You’ll be carefully coached on how to put on and maintain your space suit, and then you’ll be able to help transport cargo from Earth to Moon. They’ll load you up pretty heavily, but don’t worry—your burdens will become much, much lighter the moment you step through into moon gravity.
MOON - Building Site
Once you’re through the Porter, either in your space suit or with other power-based accommodations to your health and safety in this harsh environment, you’ll be on the surface of the moon! Keep in mind, the surface of the moon is has no atmosphere, and is incredibly hot in sunlight and incredibly cold in the dark. You’ll want to attune your equipment and force fields accordingly.
The view is stunning. The building site is laid out under the glow of the full Earth above, and the barren, silent landscape of the moon stretches out on all sides. Without atmosphere, sound does not travel, but fortunately all of the space suits are equipped with radios with an array of channels, so your conversations on the moon can be as public or private as you please. Construction is happening all around, assisted by small cranes and some robots, and there’s relatively little direct oversight on this side. If you were allowed through the Porter to the high-security Building Site, it’s assumed that you know your business.
WHERE: International Moon Research Base Project Headquarters just outside of De Chima; and, The Moon
WHEN: Various dates, starting in November but the project will be ongoing throughout December
WHAT: Plans to build the International Moon Research Base are underway! Government, public, and imPort collaboration on the project varies from casual picnic to highly technical science. Visitors are welcome, and everyone involved in the project should, well, get involved! Prompts below.
WARNINGS: Let me know if anything needs it! Also, look, I did my best for accuracy but I am not a Science so. I did my best.
The most casual and welcoming site of the project headquarters, the Welcome Tent is set up next to a big open field. The weather is beautiful and warm today, and many parts of the project have been brought outside. With so many people collaborating, the interior spaces tend to get more crowded, so everyone’s enjoying the opportunity to work outside. There are plenty casual picnickers here to spectate, but there are also a wide variety of scientists, administrators, and imPorts hard at work on all the varied parts of the project.
Most of the more earnest research and projects are being conducted inside the adjacent warehouse, office, and laboratory spaces. If you signed up to work on the project in some capacity, you will have a dedicated—or perhaps shared—workbench and all the components and tools that you need. Considerable government money has been spent in outfitting this project, and every imPort involved has been personally considered and accommodated. The moon base is being built in the spirit of cooperation and collaboration, so work on your projects and help out on the projects of others! Even moral support is much appreciated, and many of the imPorts who had enthusiasm but not skill have been given jobs as assistants or caterers.
The Porter Access Area is the most carefully guarded and restricted area of the site. If you step through the Porter here, you’ll be on the Moon—which could mean instant death if you’re not protected by powers or a space suit. But the dock area around the Porter is lively with people in and out of space suits. The construction of the International Moon Research Base is being carried through the Porter in pieces, which means that all pieces have to be small enough to be carried through, and there are many, many pieces to transport. Lively coordination is happening all around. If you have a project, maybe you want to make sure that it’s transported with care. If you don’t have a project, maybe you’d like to help out as a Porter for a bit? You’ll be carefully coached on how to put on and maintain your space suit, and then you’ll be able to help transport cargo from Earth to Moon. They’ll load you up pretty heavily, but don’t worry—your burdens will become much, much lighter the moment you step through into moon gravity.
Once you’re through the Porter, either in your space suit or with other power-based accommodations to your health and safety in this harsh environment, you’ll be on the surface of the moon! Keep in mind, the surface of the moon is has no atmosphere, and is incredibly hot in sunlight and incredibly cold in the dark. You’ll want to attune your equipment and force fields accordingly.
The view is stunning. The building site is laid out under the glow of the full Earth above, and the barren, silent landscape of the moon stretches out on all sides. Without atmosphere, sound does not travel, but fortunately all of the space suits are equipped with radios with an array of channels, so your conversations on the moon can be as public or private as you please. Construction is happening all around, assisted by small cranes and some robots, and there’s relatively little direct oversight on this side. If you were allowed through the Porter to the high-security Building Site, it’s assumed that you know your business.
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"One day we won't just live there," he says with confidence. "We'll have dozens of worlds, be part of the Galaxy. We're helping take the first steps forward right here, right now. But we'll never forget where we came from."
It's not usual for Jacob to feel this swell of sentiment. But where Hermann is experiencing a new frontier in leaving Earth, for Jacob it's more like a homecoming. He spent most of his life away from the homeworld back home: aboard ships, space stations, colonies. Even confined to a space suit, being up here feels like freedom to him.