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Summary:

Her Majesty's Star Ship Lollipop, named and often referred to as

“The good ship" in the spirit of whimsy which inspired the Canadian

Dominion at its height, was launched by the Ministry of Space from

the Hongfu shipyards orbitting Titan on AS 4878 / 2181 CE. The

launch was officiated by Queen Nadie II herself. While titularly a

Canadian mission, the ship played host to an intercommunitarian crew

under auspices of the recently organized Solar Community.

The primary mission for HMSS Lollipop was as a secondary stage

scout for scientific outpost implantation. It was for a permanent

outpost of 500 standard anthropometres which the Canadian Dominion

had been granted conditional license by the SC Interstellar

Consensus. But it was tacitly understood that the Lollipop was to

investigate Proxima Centauri b for prospective Terran

inhabitation. It was the second such mission to PC since the ill

fated Lunar Syndicate probe Sylvan had been destroyed in a stellar

flare in 4858 had caused most stakeholders to declare the PC system

unfit for Terran life. However a reappraisal of the data recovered

by deep space telemetry stations suggested a potential for life yet

remained on Proxima Centauri b.

HMSS Lollipop held an intercommunal crew of 3^3/42 class Jia

robots, 108 humans, 5 Jovian Hurrumirr-subtype63, and 8 bottlenose

dolphins. Of these all but 15 were in hibernation. The Patel-V

hibernation tank was developped specially for the Lollipop mission,

enabling expected decantation mortalities to drop under 10% for the

first time. There were also biotic wards of lesser sentients,

plants, fungi, robota, Jovianae, and microbae massing at 956

tonnes.

The primary drive for traversing the 4.244 ly to Proxima Centauri

was one of the first Orion drives approved by the SC since WWIII

and the postbellum Compact had outlawed nuclear explosives within

the orbit of Plutocharon. The Lollipop was expected to reach a

midpoint speed of ~0.3c, with a ETT of ~28y. Ion propulsion and

prototype Muon drives were to be used once in the PC system.

HMSS Lollipop - Ship Log