I have planned a little bit more happening between the EU/JAXA group and the Galactic Republic... but at the moment I am busy with a new story about CERN and the Little Big Bang Labs.
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Now that I have mentioned a "plan for the warsies", I think I should just sketch it too.
The thing will happen 2-4 years after the Aurora station delivered the first Helium-3 to Earth... there will be some attempt at political backstabbing when governments on Earth finally learn the "dirty secret" of the Aurora station (the handwaved extension)... still, the Helium-3 is flowing and they run the "spearhead of progress of Europe/Japan" number for quite some time, which results in an unexpected outcome.
After some back and forth, some party takes a deep breath and proposes to extend the Aurora operation together with the "Fen at Saturn"... which might (still a little bit unclear from the plot line I have in mind) with a larger joined station at Saturn to mine more Helium-3 for both parties... which will most likely get the name "Bespin Cloud City" (I don't think the Warsies will agree to a different one ^^).
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Now that I have mentioned a "plan for the warsies", I think I should just sketch it too.
The thing will happen 2-4 years after the Aurora station delivered the first Helium-3 to Earth... there will be some attempt at political backstabbing when governments on Earth finally learn the "dirty secret" of the Aurora station (the handwaved extension)... still, the Helium-3 is flowing and they run the "spearhead of progress of Europe/Japan" number for quite some time, which results in an unexpected outcome.
After some back and forth, some party takes a deep breath and proposes to extend the Aurora operation together with the "Fen at Saturn"... which might (still a little bit unclear from the plot line I have in mind) with a larger joined station at Saturn to mine more Helium-3 for both parties... which will most likely get the name "Bespin Cloud City" (I don't think the Warsies will agree to a different one ^^).