Martian Settlement Mission Simulation

• The crew will submit (daily/weekly/periodic) reports amongst themselves but viewable by all.
• The crew will be able to "back-channel" or "use local frequencies" for developing plans of action and for problem solving, these will not be visible to the masses, nor to the Terran Office.
• The crew will compose a team report back to the Terran Office as the "official mission status report"

• The Terran Office will gather inputs from all non-mission elements and produce a request/task/status message for the mission team to work into their schedule. Thus, part of every day is occupied by Terran taskings and questions.
• The membership at large (non-mission elements) can provide "color" to the mission by requesting information or tasking work (Acadamician) or by creating a crisis (Murphy). Try asking the team to salvage an earlier probe, take some samples at a specific location, provide settlment information, report observations of specific events, and the occasioal crisis.

• The "Murphy Family" is the collective grouping for "what-ifs" and "how would you handle this" types of problems the team will encounter (blown transmission, dust storm, degraded system performance, etc)
• Entries will be screened and "reasonable" entries will be entered into the mission ... at the least opportune time (murphy's law)
• Submit your favorite crisis or catastrophy for the mission to resolve.

• The Academicians both request services from, and respond with both comments and answers for the crew
• Request information FROM the mission team
• Submit your comments and answers

• The Imaging Systems are for both armchair and pro artist alike. If we need a pix of something, feel free to add your art. Rules are that it must be consistent with whatever has already been "approved". Thus we will have two pix files, one for the active mission, and one of concept art.
• Submit your artwork as an attachment. JPEG (.jpg) preferred.
• View Concept Artwork
• View Mission Photo Files

• The Peanut Gallery is the sanity check valve. Laurels and Hardies for all mission elements. Flames, comments, kudos, and humor will all be accepted here for freedom of speech and consideration.
• Register your comments about the mission. Flames and Kudos welocmed.
• View the comments log files

Mars Time for this simulation run is based on a 24:60:60 clock (Hours:Minutes:Seconds) each a slight percentage longer than Terran numbers due to the slightly longer martian day. There is a special interest discussion group, with the Mars Society, whose members are hammering out the pros and cons of timekeeping and calendrical issues. The entries submitted here have been arbitrarily selected.

(Names adapted from Edgar Rice Borroughs' "Barsoom" ;)

• Low Grade Steel Rods (reinforcing bars)
• Low Grade Steel Sheets/Plates
• Ceramics
• Polyethylene Sheets
• Concrete (Portland Cement) made by heating a calcareous material (limestone or chalk) with silica- and alumina- bearing material (clay/shale) at 1350 Celcius which yields "e;clinker"e; balls which are then cooled, ground to powder and mixed with gypsum to control setting speed, then lastly with water. - Academic American Encyclopedia

  Resultant Cement compounds and percentages
  Tricalcium silicate	3CaO*Si2O3	55%
  Dicalcium silicate	2CaO*Si2O3	25%
  Tricalcium aluminate	3CaO*Al2O3	10%
  Tetracalcium aluminoferrite	4CaO*Al2O3*Fe2O3	8%

• Brick

• Vegetables
• Legumes
• Mushrooms
• Cereals - also produces plant fiber for textiles
• Water Plants
• Fish - Tilapia part of living machine plus food
• Flax/Wheat - also produces plant fiber for textiles
• Goats - Milk and cheese, hair for textiles, Methane :-)

• Hab 1 + L/AV
• ISPP / ISRU + ERV
• 2x Rovers (Full)
• 3x Rovers (Suit)
• Agri-Dome
• Semi-Rigid Workshop
• Bulldozer/loader blade
• Backhoe / Crane unit
• Solar Furnace (Open)
• Electric Furnace (Pressurized)
• Claw hammer
• two screwdrivers
• adjustable crescent wrenches
• shovel
• pick / adz
• 1 ton chain hoist
• welding rig (MIG/TIG)
• tap and die set
• and much MUCH MORE !!!! which we need to itemize and figure the mass out !!

Space reserved for Settlement Charter (Simulation)

300W RTG powered water mining for 42 kg of H2O per day. "e;The standard RTG puts out 300 watts of electricity, enought to move the cart, along with 6kW of waste heat, sufficient to produce 42 kilograms of water a day from 3 percent grade feedstock."e;-The Case for Mars p.190

We will need to track all resources to the centi-liter.

All activities and resource usage will remain consistent with the Terms of Reference, Performance Tables, Settlement Charter, and Manifest. (revolutions aside)