[Spaceships] Getting A Few Thousand Extra MPS

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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

Do away with bioroids all you want but don't discard the bio/nano solution to space radiation. Specifically the Radiation Regeneration nano TS introduces at TL10 (although the Immunity to cancer is nothing to sneeze at).

Without these things just pulling off an 18 month Mars mission without anyone dying from radiation is a major exercise. That's assuming mature TL9 radiation drugs too.

Even with the other TL10 anti-radiation tech you'd see humans restircted to big space stations and still getting expensive anti-cancer/anti-radiation treatmets every 10 to 20 years. People who do have these big heavily shielded space stations tend not to have your "Mars Needs Women!" problems too.

Not too much of a problem. Cis-Luna habitat and manufacturing stations can be buried under 5 feet of rock. Ships are going to be getting around the system using Mag-Sail and once out of the boost phase those can be reconfigured to be radiation shields. So on your 18 month Mars mission only periods where you're on the surface are a concern and building storm shelters can be made a priority once landed. Missions to Jupiter can simply not enter the dangerous of the radiation belts. And so on, THS has that more to enable Neo-liberal or anarchist ideas and make things like artist communes possible, I'm not allowing that, mostly on the grounds of cost.