Revisiting Prime Base

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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly

Prime Base was started in 1963 and completed in 1982. Sigma Base is started in 1978 and completed in 1986.

It says the base was started in the late 1960's and was completed about 1980, but it also says it was completed over a 10 year period. So lets just say construction went into high gear starting in 1970.

The base in finished in 1980 with what seems to be full fusion power generation. We can surmise that Prime was built in stages, but it really says nowhere in TM1-1 or adventures when full size fusion power has invented by the project. It only says small sized fusion power pack in 1979 and in 1987 the project retrofitted itself with fusion to "stored" equipment. So Prime has to have been built with fusion in mind from the beginning.

Do we surmise that Prime was built from the beginning with a fusion power source, just on a large scale and the project was developing/researching small sized fusion in hopes of completing this before the war date Bruce saw?

Or was it retrofitted between 1979 and 1987 to now include fusion? We have the Support cylinder Level 13, Power and Light, which describes a rather large fusion bottle, which would be really tricky to retrofit into the lowest level of the Support cylinder.