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NASA Mining Survey Team Attacks a contested Lunar Outpost's Soviet Occupants.   

Tuesday September 4th 1983 Diplomatic envoys met in Helsinki yesterday to discus the unprovoked attack on Soviet Cosmonauts by NASA prospectors at the famous Tycho Lunar outpost and Transmitter relay for planetary communications. Details are a bit cloudy at the moment as Houston control at the Johnson Space center, NASA is claiming that the Cosmonauts in question had set an ambush for the prospecting team. The Kremlin in contempt claims that the team dispatched to the area was a medical team, unarmed and responding to a distress call near the facility. No permanent casualties have been reported by either side.     

NASA's approach to the Tycho Transmitter relay

Mining Claims in amicable Resolution between Kremlin and Huston Mining teams.

Disputes of unclear mining rights still causing tension between nations on the Lunar surface. Houston disgruntled after a Soviet team runs over American Flag on mining site with Lunar Buggy and claiming the site is not designated for capitalist ventures. Dmitri Solgar quoted at site" Clearly if this area was claimed by capitalists, there would be a Larger sign of demarcation, like a welcome to sign, a McDonald's, or a strip-club. We honestly didn't see anything of the sort. 

 So a friend and I started the scenarios in the back of the first edition basic set (LUNAR by Black Site Studio). He the Soviets a peaceful Medical team building a Hospital on the Moon, He claims and me a Blood thirsty Gun toting American Cowboy-Prospector-Capitalist, He also claims. Most of that is true, except the gun part which we can't afford at the moment. For now I have just been using a mining drill as an effective self defense weapon.   

The first scenario is a simple snag the supply drop where we grab what we can and get it off the board. Soviet's walked away with that win by one token of supplies. 

The second is a Mining scenario where we prospect for an unspecified element, I designated Wingnuteum a rare element used in the process of building Ultra-Widgets and the secret ingredient in Tang. It ended up being a tie somehow despite drilling the hell out of some cantankerous rock. 

The third scenario was a combat conflict that somehow a NASA mining team and a Soviet medical team got pitted against one another over a disputed Building that neither concluded we could actually use after we beat the hell out of each other. The Soviets out numbered opened a communist container of whip-ass on the over confident Americans. The Americans won the scenario but we concluded it was simply because the number of people I had near the facility at the end.