Lucidus mission protocols

The Lucidus mission adhered to a set of plans and protocols throughout the space-bound portion of the mission which were prescribed by the mission's designers and planners. These protocols were intended to ensure the safety of the population of the ships and preserve the chances of achieving the mission's objective. Lucidus organizers developed these guidelines during the earthbound planning phase of the Lucidus mission.

These protocols took into account the special circumstances of an intergenerational long-term intergalactic mission, such as a lack of potential for any resupply from Earth, the unlikelihood of the acquisition of any external raw materials or supplies, a potential loss of communications with earthbound mission assistance, a plan to never return to Earth, and the possibility of encountering phenomena inconsistent with current understandings of astrophysics.

The mission's protocols were designed to be flexible enough to benefit from input and decision-making from the mission's command mid-mission in isolation of outside consultation and to survive various changes to mission plans while preserving the mission's eventual objective. Protocols for the operation of the Lucidus mission were closely intertwined with Lucidus mission guidelines for the resulting habitation and development of a terrestrial civilization once the mission found a suitable planet to settle.

Fundamental protocols

The most notable of the Lucidus mission protocols that applied to the space-bound portion of the mission included:

• The three Lucidus ships, when in motion, were encouraged to travel spaced apart by a significant distance in order to improve resiliency and redundancy of the mission in case of astronomical problems that might otherwise affect all of the ships if they were located in the same local section of space at the time they encounter some sort of uncontrolled calamity. The ships would remain positioned such that they could maintain communication with one another and preserve the continuity of unified command;
• Rendezvous of the three shops should take place periodically at regular intervals in order to improve population morale, to exchange supplies and members of the population between ships, and to facilitate in-person meetings that would maintain cultural integrity and continuity. These meetings would take place as the ships decelerated to a minimal speed or a stall to minimize the chance of unexpected encounters with problematic issues within the space climate;
• The command of the Lucidus mission should be evenly divided between the three ships in order to encourage equity of the perception of the importance of each of the three ships, despite their being named Lucidus I, Lucidus II, and Lucidus III;
• The population of the Lucidus ships should also be evenly divided between the three ships;
• The Glossa Communi language should be universally utilized for official and unofficial interpersonal communications to encourage cultural equity and mutual intelligibility;
• The standard system of units of measure designed for the Lucidus mission should be used exclusively to inspire simplicity and to avoid accidents and unintended mismeasurements;
• Population regulation should be instituted to maintain the population of the Lucidus ships within sustainable bounds utilizing a system of incentivization that preserves personal choice;
• The space-bound portion of the Lucidus mission should maintain communications with the Earth-bound portion of the mission as long as possible to take advantage of the maximum available expertise and insight; however interpersonal communications between the general populations of the Lucidus ships and the general earthly public is discouraged if not prohibited in order to prevent any pollution of the Lucidus population culture with undesirable influences from the potentially destructive societal issues of Earth;
• Self-sufficiency of the Lucidus mission should be preserved making use of both flora and [Fauna of Illuminatia|fauna]] that originated on Earth as well as vegetation and other life-forms that were mission-originated and specifically formulated and bred for mission needs and maximum potential compatibility with a future terrestrial world;
• Additionally with the objective of self-sufficiency, all organic and inorganic resources or materials aboard the Lucidus ships should be recycled and reused upon disposal or the reaching of the end of the useful life of the material or object in question. Resources should not be disposed of outside the Lucidus ships unless it is inherently necessary due to the nature of the waste in question. Reuse should apply to human resources upon the natural termination of life of any human Lucidus inhabitant.
• Provisions and plans should be made in case of unexpected and incomprehensible phenomena that might violate the known laws of physics and which may compromise the success of the Lucidus mission. Plans for the Existential Crisis were devised and later put into action during the Lucidus termination event.
• The Lucidus ships should be equipped with automatic systems for sending the full population of the ships to a destination planet which is habitable and judged to be capable of sustaining a growing human population in the long-term, in the event it becomes impractical for Lucidus mission personnel to do so manually. This system should include algorithms to concentrate of disperse surviving Lucidus populations based upon factors involving terrestrial geography, climate, and environment.
• Upon landing on a habitable planet, Lucidus personnel should establish a beacon utilizing elementary particle communications to enable any potential resupply missions from Earth in case the mission finds a terrestrial habitat that is less sustainable than anticipated. Such a beacon may serve as a confirmation to Earth-bound mission interests that the Lucidus mission has succeeded. An elementary particle beacon is necessary to facilitate communications over distances and through galactic environments through which traditional electromagnetic communications would not successfully travel.
• Commanders within the Lucidus mission as well as leaders within the sovereign authority over a resultant terrestrial civilization will exercise ultimate judgement over whether the Lucidus mission population or its descendants may engage in communications with Earth.

Many of the protocols observed during the space-bound portion of the Lucidus mission survive in some form within the existing plan of Illuminatian government, albeit generally with significant alteration and evolution of concept. It was found that the Lucidus mission protocols were surprisingly applicable to the growing cooperative society of humanity on the Neonisi planet, a situation in which a limited population of humanity also existed in isolation from Earth.