Extended Space Survival
Extended Space Survival — Terra Invicta technology. Medical science seeks long-term treatments for survival in enclosed low-gravity environments.
About Extended Space Survival
Extended Space Survival is a Terra Invicta technology in LifeScience with a research cost of 10,000.
Medical science seeks long-term treatments for survival in enclosed low-gravity environments.
Long-term existence beyond Earth's atmosphere creates problems far beyond the simple need for oxygen and food. Extended spaceflight is terrible for the human body, not least due to microgravity. We have been able to mitigate this to some extent, but dealing with it in the longer term requires a more aggressive response. Over the months and years, muscles atrophy, bones become brittle, eyesight deteriorates, and even the effects of aging are accelerated. Then there is prolonged exposure to radiation, and the more minor, yet still aggravating risks of deformed fingernails, kidney stones, and gout. This is not to mention the psychological effects: the simultaneous loneliness and lack of privacy as well as the constant, gnawing terror of a systems failure or hull breach. The same issues will perpetuate even on land, should we settle on planets with no or minimal atmospheres. Thus, if human society is to exist either off-world or in planetary colonies, all of these problems must be solved. Thankfully, we now have proposals for a raft of easily mass-produced treatments, supplements, and technologies to mitigate the worst of these effects in the short term and, in the longer term, to breed a next generation of future spacefarers who are biologically more resistant to the sheer brutality of life in space.