Scouts needed...

[DeathByTheSword]

I agree with the rover idea

[- Groucho -]

My main desire is for us to push the borders back from our capital - only one scout is needed for that. We also need some sort of military unit for CP escort duty - it sucks to lose them to worms. But four scouts? that may be a little too much this early - esp given that we should be able to replicate the technology we saw in the Unity Rover we found and build faster scouts soon. Apparently our scientists are working on a new device called "the Wheel" which is showing great promise - the beta was square but testing thinks a pentagon might work better.

[Mellian]

I think the problem is to power the rovers, as there is no fossil fuel on this world. Best bet is to develop a functional and easy to maintain Fission Reactors...like they did with the Unity Rovers, just incase we couldn't find oil, which is the case.



-Mellian

[Maniac]

Wouldn't a hydrogen engine be better?

[Mellian]

maybe, but that would limit the range of a Rover, limiting how far one can go off exploring. also requires constructing a hydrogen refinary and hydrogen fuel depots, constant maintenance and so on. so it is cheaper to just construct a mini nuke plant to power them, which can last forever...especially when uranium is quite abundant on this world.

besides, the folks back on earth were smart to have a fission plant for rovers and the other units we brought with us...because we wouldn't be able to bring with us a lot of hydrogen and would require spending resources on making a hydrogen refinary at some water source or whatever....which we weren't sure it exist on alien worlds.

-Mellian

[Maniac]

Yeah but unlike Uranium Hydrogen is an almost infinite resource. We can find it just in the moisty air, or in the huge lake close to our HQ. You're right though it would require a larger initial investment and more maintenance. Perhaps I should talk to our future research director about building some clean self-repairing bio-engineered hydrogen reactor. He might have some ideas...

[DeathByTheSword]

the problem with Uranium is that when a rover is destroyed the reactor may breach too and we will have hell to pay. just look at what happend with the Earth after worldwar III all those destroyed nuclearsubs wiped out 78% of our fish supply I am agianst any use of Atomic based reactors