User blog comment:CaptainMcToasty/RWBY Gundam!/@comment-24901923-20140902143223/@comment-24901923-20140904000448

I'll be on the United Earth Government's side, and I'll be finished with the specs for an UEG mainline MS and at least 1 Gundam shortly. I don't know how to work google docs to submit them, however. Perhaps drop them in a post to your message wall that you can convert into a doc and link for the rest of us, then delete the original post? Also, I have this for you:

Provisional space colonization plan:

Phase 1: Send an wave of cargo transports to the Moon to establish an lunar colony, underground to protect it from solar radiation and potential attack.

Phase 2: Lunar colony begins dual agricultural and manufacturing operations. Hydroponic agriculture is used to provide food for Earth's population. This allows additional PR points against the HA. The manufacturing facilities will initially focus on constructing industrial space stations which can be used to loosen the bottleneck of orbital space colony production. After sufficient factory stations have been built, the lunar colony will switch to producing more parts to expand the lunar colonization effort. As in Robert Heinleins' "The Moon is a harsh Mistress", food and other products destined to Earth will be sent via reusable metal containers launched via electomagnetic mass driver. Said containers land safely in the ocean to be retrieved. In return, the Earth sends settlers, as well as waste for fertilizer, and other materials, to be processed in the lunar colony.

Phase 3: Moon colony becomes self sustaining and shifts focus to the construction of additional lunar settlements, and serving as a staging area for additional colonization/mining initiatives at Mars and further out in the solar system. The orbital factory stations begin recieving raw materials directly from Earth, to be processed into colony parts, rather than Earth sending up parts directly. This keeps the most expensive and valuable materials in the colonization effort largely out of the reach of the HA, and is also cheaper. The lunar colonies may also send out materials to further supply the factory stations. Once the colony parts are ready, they may be shipped out and assembled on site.

Phase 4: Initial space colonies are completed and ready for settlers. Space miners send materials mined from asteroids back to the Moon for processing while asteroids hollowed out and depleted by mining are repurposed as colonies, etc. Mass drivers are built around Earth to assist vessels with getting into orbit and send lunar container capsules back to the Moon. These mass drivers are faster/cheaper to build/repair than space elevators, which are just as vulnerable to attack by the HA. I will re-read "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" to locate the names of mountains mentioned as being good places to set up mass drivers on Earth.