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Summary: |
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Her Majesty's Star Ship Lollipop, named and often referred to as |
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“The good ship" in the spirit of whimsy which inspired the Canadian |
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Dominion at its height, was launched by the Ministry of Space from |
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the Hongfu shipyards orbitting Titan on AS 4878 / 2181 CE. The |
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launch was officiated by Queen Nadie II herself. While titularly a |
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Canadian mission, the ship played host to an intercommunitarian crew |
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under auspices of the recently organized Solar Community. |
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The primary mission for HMSS Lollipop was as a secondary stage |
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scout for scientific outpost implantation. It was for a permanent |
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outpost of 500 standard anthropometres which the Canadian Dominion |
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had been granted conditional license by the SC Interstellar |
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Consensus. But it was tacitly understood that the Lollipop was to |
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investigate Proxima Centauri b for prospective Terran |
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inhabitation. It was the second such mission to PC since the ill |
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fated Lunar Syndicate probe Sylvan had been destroyed in a stellar |
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flare in 4858 had caused most stakeholders to declare the PC system |
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unfit for Terran life. However a reappraisal of the data recovered |
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by deep space telemetry stations suggested a potential for life yet |
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remained on Proxima Centauri b. |
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HMSS Lollipop held an intercommunal crew of 3^3/42 class Jia |
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robots, 108 humans, 5 Jovian Hurrumirr-subtype63, and 8 bottlenose |
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dolphins. Of these all but 15 were in hibernation. The Patel-V |
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hibernation tank was developped specially for the Lollipop mission, |
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enabling expected decantation mortalities to drop under 10% for the |
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first time. There were also biotic wards of lesser sentients, |
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plants, fungi, robota, Jovianae, and microbae massing at 956 |
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tonnes. |
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The primary drive for traversing the 4.244 ly to Proxima Centauri |
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was one of the first Orion drives approved by the SC since WWIII |
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and the postbellum Compact had outlawed nuclear explosives within |
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the orbit of Plutocharon. The Lollipop was expected to reach a |
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midpoint speed of ~0.3c, with a ETT of ~28y. Ion propulsion and |
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prototype Muon drives were to be used once in the PC system. |
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See Also: |
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Proxima Centauri b-Jia |
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Proxima Centauri b-Yi |
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Proxima Centauri b-Bing |
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Proxima Centauri c |
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毗鄰星ｂ甲 |
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HMSS Lollipop - Ship Log |
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302 >> HMSS Lollipop - Lost+Found-AF7B83 |
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