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Summary:
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Her Majesty's Star Ship Lollipop, named and often referred to as "The good ship"
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in the spirit of whimsy which inspired the Canadian Dominion at its height, was
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launched by the Ministry of Space from the Hongfu shipyards orbitting Titan on
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AS 4878 / 2181 CE. The launch was officiated by Queen Nadie II herself. While
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titularly a Canadian mission, the ship played host to an intercommunitarian crew
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under auspices of the recently organized Solar Community.
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The primary mission for HMSS Lollipop was as a secondary stage scout for
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scientific outpost implantation. It was for a permanent outpost of 500 standard
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anthropometres which the Canadian Dominion had been granted conditional license
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by the SC Interstellar Consensus. But it was tacitly understood that the
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Lollipop was to investigate Proxima Centauri b for prospective Terran
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inhabitation. It was the second such mission to PC since the ill fated Lunar
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Syndicate probe Sylvan had been destroyed in a stellar flare in 4858 had caused
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most stakeholders to declare the PC system unfit for Terran life. However a
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reappraisal of the data recovered by deep space telemetry stations suggested a
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potential for life yet remained on Proxima Centauri b.
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HMSS Lollipop held an intercommunal crew of 3^3/42 class Jia robots, 108 humans,
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5 Jovian Hurrumirr-subtype63, and 8 bottlenose dolphins. Of these all but 15
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were in hibernation. The Patel-V hibernation tank was developped specially for
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the Lollipop mission, enabling expected decantation mortalities to drop under
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10% for the first time. There were also biotic wards of lesser sentients,
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plants, fungi, robota, Jovianae, and microbae massing at 956 tonnes.
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The primary drive for traversing the 4.244 ly to Proxima Centauri was one of
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the first Orion drives approved by the SC since WWIII and the postbellum
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Compact had outlawed nuclear explosives within the orbit of Plutocharon. The
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Lollipop was expected to reach a midpoint speed of ~0.3c, with a ETT of ~28y.
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Ion propulsion and prototype Muon drives were to be used once in the PC
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system.
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See Also:
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Proxima Centauri b-Jia
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Proxima Centauri b-Yi
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Proxima Centauri b-Bing
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Proxima Centauri c
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