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=== Space = the desert. ===
Deep interplanetary or interstellar travel = the Omnia-Ephebe crossing.
Comets = supply caches.
Generational ship = final unit attempting the crossing.
Sacrificed precursor missions = army waves that die to place caches.

So the equivalent Vorbis move is:

===== - most missions will never return, =====
* many will be lost,
* they exist only to move resources forward into the void
* each moves the boundary of human reach a little further

Until finally:

: 

It is not about comets being magical power sources.
It is about building the stepping stones across the vacuum using sacrifice and logistics mathematics.

==== A generational ship cannot launch into the dark expecting to survive on internal stores alone. ====

It must rely on:
* earlier missions
* pre-positioned depots
* burnt offerings to physics
* strategic losses to create infrastructure

That’s Vorbis.

==== : ====

Space travel is not won by a single heroic ship.
It is won by the bones of the attempts before it.

Just like:
* South Pole supply chain
* Shackleton logistics
* Antarctic refueling drops
* Apollo program rockets discarded stage by stage

==== Because comets are already: ====
* objects that move deeper and deeper outward
* carry water and volatiles (the desert’s buried water jars)
* predictable routes (the military staging line)
* reachable with incremental missions

And each depot:
* is installed by a mission that won’t make the final crossing
* is part of a graded sacrifice

The Vorbis strategy reframed:

: 

==== You don’t need a single generational ship that survives centuries. ====
You need:
# A chain of precursor missions laying resource caches outward
# A final ship that uses them as stepping stones
# Cultural doctrine that ensures the chain is completed

That’s the real idea.

==== We can now: ====
A) Map a realistic solar-system supply chain (which precursors go where)
B) Model the minimum depot spacing using delta-V & consumables mathematics
C) Explore required culture/governance to enforce completion
D) Consider failure cascades and redundancy

Which do you want next?
A / B / C / D?