Advanced healthcare infrastructure for hollowed-asteroid bases — designed to keep multi-century crews healthy, treat injuries, and fully leverage future ASI breakthroughs in regenerative medicine and aging reversal.
Provide on-site medical capability that matches or exceeds Earth standards while being completely self-sufficient for centuries. The facility must handle routine care, trauma, surgery, and the advanced regenerative therapies that will become available once ASI arrives.
The medical facility is constructed after life support, power, internal transport, and recreation systems are operational. It serves both the base population and any visiting crews from the mining fleet or external vessels.
Requirement: The facilities are those in IPLS-3.1.10-002 to 007. The sizing population is unset. Whether cryogenic or stasis capability and AI-assisted triage are within this section is unset. Power to medical hardpoints follows IPLS-3.1.6-006. Whether medical loads are life-support loads under IPLS-3.1.6-003 is unset.
Rationale: Long-duration crews require immediate, self-sufficient medical capability far from Earth, including future ASI-enabled regenerative and life-extension technologies.
Open Questions: None at v0.7
Requirement: Imaging modalities, sequencing capability, the procedure list, and the diagnostic accuracy threshold are unset. N+2 applies per function. N per function is unset. Whether diagnostic and surgical equipment is life-critical under IPLS-3.1.5-008 is unset. Overrides follow IPLS-3.1.10-007. Which procedures fall inside the IPLS-5.1-002 envelope is unset. Whether a procedure may act on a person without that person's consent is unset. Access to medical data and its data path are unset. Access to psychological data is unset under IPLS-3.1.9-006.
Rationale: Enables rapid diagnosis and treatment of trauma, illness, and age-related conditions in a closed environment.
Requirement: Which listed therapies are Lane B and which are Lane C is unset. Biomaterial feedstock, its source, and its specification are unset. ISRU feedstock follows IPLS-3.1-009. The 3.1.20 tier of lab robots is unset. Lab isolation follows IPLS-3.1.5-006. Whether lab air and waste are isolated from the life-support loop is unset. The sterility standard and N per lab function are unset.
Rationale: Provides on-site capability for life-extension and injury recovery, eliminating Earth dependency for long-lived crews.
Requirement: The formulary, purity standard, and throughput are unset. N for synthesis trains is unset. Whether a medicines reserve independent of synthesis is held, and its size, are unset. Precursor specification and source are unset. ISRU feedstock follows IPLS-3.1-009. The 3.1.20 tier of synthesis robots is unset.
Rationale: Eliminates the need for Earth resupply of critical pharmaceuticals over multi-century missions.
Requirement: Automatic activation acts inside the IPLS-5.1-002 envelope and is logged and reported to the operator. Whether activation may confine a person without that person's consent is unset. The activation trigger, the release condition, and who may release are unset. Egress follows IPLS-3.1.8-005. How egress is reconciled with containment is unset. Seals follow UMP-SEAL-001. Power follows IPLS-3.1.6-006. Whether a quarantine loop is life-critical under IPLS-3.1.5-008 is unset. Pressure differential, air-change rate, and the containment standard are unset.
Rationale: Protects the broader base population from potential biological threats in a sealed environment.
Requirement: Psychological monitoring follows IPLS-3.1.9-006. Treatment follows this section. Access to psychological data is unset. Whether AI-assisted support may act on a person without that person's consent is unset. Digital minds follow IPLS-3.1.22-004. Loss of link follows IPLS-3.1.5-011.
Rationale: Mental health is as critical as physical health for multi-century crews.
Requirement: Critical medical functions shall expose physical overrides. Their use follows IPLS-3.1.4-007. On loss of link, life-preserving functions continue inside the IPLS-5.1-002 envelope and other actions follow the IPLS-3.1-014 hold. T is unset. The safe step for a procedure in progress is unset. The list of critical medical functions is unset. Whether a veto can stop a life-preserving action already running is unset. Life-support functions follow 3.1.5.
Rationale: Keeps the stop with the operator under IPLS-5.1-002.
Requirement: Life-critical systems remain at the 500-year figure in IPLS-3.1-016. Whether medical elements are life-critical is unset. TSP-v1 readiness criteria are undefined. Supersession waits for operator consent under IPLS-5.1-002.
Rationale: Ensures the medical system remains effective as regenerative and life-extension technologies advance.