Thread:Owlfeathers0117/@comment-15410791-20130928025532/@comment-11135771-20130928044257

Current data suggests that most of the water on Titan is located beneath a thick layer of ice, which would be possible to build on due to its sheer thickness, in combination with the fact that the temperature is low enough to prevent any sort of natural melting. In order to actually access the proper oceans of Titan, a large drilling operation will be necessary. Most of the bodies of water are essentially "underground oceans".

My intention would be to establish a colony with full life support before we start bringing in things as large as seafaring capital ships, though large transport vessels will still be needed for bringing such watercraft once we've accessed the oceans and seas.

The presence of ice thick enough to build on will remove the need for a large base ship and cut costs a fair bit, but multiple transport ships will be required to ferry supplies, personell, and eventually ships to and from Titan. I'm aiming for a cost per unit of no more than 500,000,000R per large cargo ship (two of those should be sufficient), and 20,000,000R for the smaller personell carriers (six of these are currently planned, but numbers can be adjusted if more or less people than expected want to come).

-Harrison Eltis