**** Incoming Transmission ***
From: Johnathan Sanders
To: Grunder Industries
Subject: Survey results
Encryption: Medium
Gentlemen,
It appears your sensor refinements are working quite well. We've been able to confirm most of your data - especially the survey of Oriabi may prove valuable in the near future. As technology progresses, so does our ability to cope with hazardous environments. I have a few other suggestions for projects, that may be of interest to the Guild:
- Tova: The planet presents itself as having been deprived of it's atmosphere. If possible, we'd like a feasability study on wether or not an atmosphere can be reestablished on this planet (IE is it's density sufficient to retain an atmosphere if introduced?). In short, we want to know if this planet could potentially be terraformed, and how costly such an effort would be. Even a thin atmosphere would make surface mining a thousandfold easier.
- Jericho: Your scanners could not penetrate the interference fully. Is it possible to augment them somehow, so we can get a better understanding of Jericho itself? An explanation for the source of the radiation that surrounds this moon would be most welcome.
- We understand your company has been involved in testing space-to-surface ordinance delivery systems - as is depicted on your advertisement banner. I wager the delivery mechanism would need to shield the payload from the dangers of atmospheric entry in freefall. Such a delivery mechanism could be valuable to deliver robotic survey craft to a planet's surface, especially in environments where using an atmospheric entry capable craft is not desirable (due to, for instance, lethal radiation), not to mention a host of other practical uses. Supply drops to planetside mining bases that do not have access to a docking ring, could speed up initial construction of a planetside base by months.
I trust the refit is proceeding smoothly.
Regards,
- Johnathan Sanders, on behalf of the Independent Miners Guild
**** Transmission Closed ****
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