FUNDING
-21% = -7%-14%
INSTITUTIONS
+17%
You consider the next steps for your space venture...
>After this launch explosion and disaster, you should thoroughly investigate everything, determine the cause and assess carefully and precisely what was at fault.To do this, roll 1d100.
If you roll under your Phase D ATLO modifier + 25% the original funding you contributed at launch, ie roll under 50% = 25% + 25%, you discover the cause and can gain TRL 2 points as you amend launch final checks and procedures to improve safety and rigour for your next launch. If you roll 51% the cause of the explosion eludes you, and you gain no TRL points.
Either way, the detailed launch testing review costs -10% funding
Undaunted by this explosion (it's nothing, SpaceX exploded spectacularly at least four times in 2025) you must take EVEN GREATER RISKS in GREATER SECRECY... Using your contacts with the CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY, you learn of an underappreciated aspect of space development. It has been widely reported, that the first Chinese aircraft carrier, Liaoning, was in fact purchased from UKRAINE in 1998, through a series of Macau intermediaries. However, less well-known is the course of events where China had frequented Ukraine over the course of 2012-2020 to investigate a LUNAR LANDER, legacies of Soviet military and weapons programmes that were tested but never used in space following the Cold War. The moon landers were known as "Lunniy korabyl" or LK, and it is also alleged that China sought to purchase Sea Launch platforms and the Zenit spacecraft from Ukraine, prior to the war.
>You must secretly send in SPACE MERCENARIES into the desperate and perilous warzone of Ukraine to salvage legacy Soviet military space program technology. This is an incredibly dangerous mission, but you feel success would be worth the risk... To undertake this mission, first nominate any LEGACY technology from here
>>6312929 and specify its tech level. You must then roll over 10*(TRL level). For instance, if you want a secret Soviet lunar lander from Ukraine, at TRL 9, you must roll OVER 90. If the roll is successful, the mission costs only the digit sum (first digit + second digit) of the 1d100 roll, ie a range of 2-18, whilst if the roll is unsuccessful, it costs the FULL 1d100 roll in funds...
>You must pursue your ultimate mission of a SECRET MOON BASE. You think you are missing some key technologies, including life support systems and also lunar habitats. But is there some means of developing these techs from what you already know?If you know the technological path for space habitats and life support (see here
>>6312934 ) write in what to do, and receive a scientific breakthrough through sheer genius insight straightaway!
>Something else? Write in... 