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| + | | name = Rockhounds, Inc. | ||
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| + | | caption = Rockhounds logo | ||
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| + | | founder = [[Chris Marsden]] | ||
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| + | | location = [[Greenwood]], [[Cislunar Space]] | ||
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| + | | services = Asteroid mining | ||
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It started with a simple idea. Like a lot of fen, I wanted to make the move Out. But I didn't like the idea of abandoning all the comforts of home, and I'd been cooped up in a small apartment for years. I wanted ''space,'' not just ''Space,'' if you'll pardon a few dice of pun damage. So I got together with a few friends and planned out the basics, talked Dad into getting a 'dane lawyer to write up the contract, and settled in with a rep from Dolomite to hack the finances into place. | It started with a simple idea. Like a lot of fen, I wanted to make the move Out. But I didn't like the idea of abandoning all the comforts of home, and I'd been cooped up in a small apartment for years. I wanted ''space,'' not just ''Space,'' if you'll pardon a few dice of pun damage. So I got together with a few friends and planned out the basics, talked Dad into getting a 'dane lawyer to write up the contract, and settled in with a rep from Dolomite to hack the finances into place. | ||
| − | The deal was simple. We, the fen, would head out into the Belt, find a nice solid chunk of nickel-iron (and hopefully some titanium, platinum, or other worthwhile shinies), and haul it into orbit. (We actually had a plan for this, which was what made them willing to talk to us, unlike some wild-sky'ers who'd popped the idea before us. Just say it involved some Israeli-designed catalytic hydrogen generators and most of the handwavium the bunch of us had been able to put together when we'd gotten started.) | + | The deal was simple. We, the fen, would head out into [[Main Belt|the Belt]], find a nice solid chunk of nickel-iron (and hopefully some titanium, platinum, or other worthwhile shinies), and haul it into orbit. (We actually had a plan for this, which was what made them willing to talk to us, unlike some wild-sky'ers who'd popped the idea before us. Just say it involved some Israeli-designed catalytic hydrogen generators and most of the handwavium the bunch of us had been able to put together when we'd gotten started.) |
We would provide a suitable habitat, thanks to said handwavium and some cargo containers and trailers, and lift Dolomite's crew and equipment into orbit. Then they'd mine the thing out, we'd ferry the results down to a landing site somewhere in Arizona, and we'd walk away with a rather nicely hollowed-out space rock and a wad or three of cash. | We would provide a suitable habitat, thanks to said handwavium and some cargo containers and trailers, and lift Dolomite's crew and equipment into orbit. Then they'd mine the thing out, we'd ferry the results down to a landing site somewhere in Arizona, and we'd walk away with a rather nicely hollowed-out space rock and a wad or three of cash. | ||
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These are the "rocks" brought in personally by Captain Marsden and his crew; others for whom Rockhounds, Inc. acted as a middleman are not listed. | These are the "rocks" brought in personally by Captain Marsden and his crew; others for whom Rockhounds, Inc. acted as a middleman are not listed. | ||
| − | * SR-01: [[NASA]]/[[Artemis Foundation]] experimental station | + | * SR-01: [[NASA]]/[[Artemis Foundation]] experimental station ''[[Beta]]'' - Lagrange Point 5 |
| − | * SR-02: Dow Pharma/3M Pharmaceuticals (joint operation) - Lagrange Point 5, medical research and drug synthesis | + | * SR-02: Station ''[[Herbert Henry]]'' - Dow Pharma/3M Pharmaceuticals (joint operation) - Lagrange Point 5, medical research and drug synthesis |
* SR-03: USAF (Classified) | * SR-03: USAF (Classified) | ||
| − | * SR-04: [[TSAB]] ''Benjamin Franklin Station'' - Lagrange Point 4 | + | * SR-04: [[TSAB]] ''[[Benjamin Franklin Station]]'' - Lagrange Point 4 |
* SR-05: Spacecraft ''[[Greenwood]]'' | * SR-05: Spacecraft ''[[Greenwood]]'' | ||
| − | * SR-06: European Space Agency (Satellite maintenance depot, occasionally referred to by Fen as "Nouveau Paris") - Geosynchronous Orbit over Paris, France | + | * SR-06: [[European Space Agency]] (Satellite maintenance depot, later ESA shipyard, occasionally referred to by Fen as ''"[[Nouveau Paris]]")'' - Geosynchronous Orbit over Paris, France |
| − | * SR-07: [[Wonderland]] - agricultural station owned by [[Stellvia Corporation]], Lagrange Point 5 | + | * SR-07: Station ''[[Wonderland]]'' - agricultural station owned by [[Stellvia Corporation]], Lagrange Point 5 |
== Other Rockhounds Mining Work == | == Other Rockhounds Mining Work == | ||
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Latest revision as of 16:07, 5 September 2012
 Rockhounds logo | |
| Founder(s) | Chris Marsden |
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| Headquarters | Greenwood, Cislunar Space |
| Services | Asteroid mining |
| Parent | Greenwood, Unltd. |
It started with a simple idea. Like a lot of fen, I wanted to make the move Out. But I didn't like the idea of abandoning all the comforts of home, and I'd been cooped up in a small apartment for years. I wanted space, not just Space, if you'll pardon a few dice of pun damage. So I got together with a few friends and planned out the basics, talked Dad into getting a 'dane lawyer to write up the contract, and settled in with a rep from Dolomite to hack the finances into place.
The deal was simple. We, the fen, would head out into the Belt, find a nice solid chunk of nickel-iron (and hopefully some titanium, platinum, or other worthwhile shinies), and haul it into orbit. (We actually had a plan for this, which was what made them willing to talk to us, unlike some wild-sky'ers who'd popped the idea before us. Just say it involved some Israeli-designed catalytic hydrogen generators and most of the handwavium the bunch of us had been able to put together when we'd gotten started.)
We would provide a suitable habitat, thanks to said handwavium and some cargo containers and trailers, and lift Dolomite's crew and equipment into orbit. Then they'd mine the thing out, we'd ferry the results down to a landing site somewhere in Arizona, and we'd walk away with a rather nicely hollowed-out space rock and a wad or three of cash.
The ink wasn't even dry before we had five offers from various scientific and manufacturing concerns to buy it off of us when it was done. A ready-made habitat in orbit, of that size? All sorts of uses for that, from manufacturing to pharmaceuticals to the kind of esoteric research that most fen just say "slap some 'waves on it, dude, don't get so emo about it" to.
Known Space Rocks
These are the "rocks" brought in personally by Captain Marsden and his crew; others for whom Rockhounds, Inc. acted as a middleman are not listed.
- SR-01: NASA/Artemis Foundation experimental station Beta - Lagrange Point 5
- SR-02: Station Herbert Henry - Dow Pharma/3M Pharmaceuticals (joint operation) - Lagrange Point 5, medical research and drug synthesis
- SR-03: USAF (Classified)
- SR-04: TSAB Benjamin Franklin Station - Lagrange Point 4
- SR-05: Spacecraft Greenwood
- SR-06: European Space Agency (Satellite maintenance depot, later ESA shipyard, occasionally referred to by Fen as "Nouveau Paris") - Geosynchronous Orbit over Paris, France
- SR-07: Station Wonderland - agricultural station owned by Stellvia Corporation, Lagrange Point 5
Other Rockhounds Mining Work
Rockhounds is known to have begun the process of hollowing out living spaces in both Babylon .5 and 498 Tokio, training each asteroid's inhabitants to continue that work as necessary.
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