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: Every hollowed asteroid base shall include dedicated medical suites and regenerative-medicine laboratories fully integrated with UMP hardpoints, capable of providing hospital-grade care and advanced regenerative therapies without Earth resupply.
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: Medical facilities shall include advanced diagnostic imaging, real-time biomarker monitoring, genetic sequencing, and fully robotic surgical theatres with operator-controlled override.
Rationale: Enables rapid diagnosis and treatment of trauma, illness, and age-related conditions in a closed environment.
Requirement: Dedicated labs shall support stem-cell therapy, tissue engineering, organ printing, and advanced regenerative procedures using ISRU-derived biomaterials.
Rationale: Provides on-site capability for life-extension and injury recovery, eliminating Earth dependency for long-lived crews.
Requirement: Pharmacy modules shall synthesise a wide range of medications and biologics from ISRU-derived precursors using automated robotic systems.
Rationale: Eliminates the need for Earth resupply of critical pharmaceuticals over multi-century missions.
Requirement: Dedicated isolation and quarantine modules with independent life-support loops shall be provided for unknown pathogens or contagious conditions.
Rationale: Protects the broader base population from potential biological threats in a sealed environment.
Requirement: Medical facilities shall integrate with Recreation, Entertainment, Psychological & Social Systems (3.1.9) for continuous neurological and psychological care, including biomarker monitoring and non-invasive therapies.
Rationale: Mental health is as critical as physical health for multi-century crews.
Requirement: All critical medical functions (life-support overrides, surgical halts, quarantine activation) shall expose physical manual overrides and digital operator veto.
Rationale: Preserves absolute human/post-biological command authority in life-critical scenarios.
Requirement: Medical and regenerative facilities shall be designed for ≥200-year service life with graceful degradation, field-repairable via ISRU spares, and pre-engineered TSP-v1 upgrade pathways.
Rationale: Ensures the medical system remains effective as regenerative and life-extension technologies advance.