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