Terras Irradient

**Terras Irradient** is a space facility set up in the remains of an old US moon military base.

## History

### Foundation

In the decades before 2282, Mr. House, through several front men, invited the smartest students of the universities of the NCR to work for a secret scientific program. The students were offered large sums of caps, but in exchange they had to remain quiet about their work or face literal termination. Mr. House desired to spread humanity across the stars under his name, leading to this project. Using information from the scattered REPCONN facilities around the west, Mr. House managed to establish a lunar facility in the remains of an old US military base.

The original station leader was Yuan. However, Yuan went mad from being so far from home, leading to his murder of two coworkers and his subsequent termination. Brought in to replace him was Agnessa Kokoshkova. She was married to Max Molotov, a good-natured yet simple minded mechanic at the station. Max severely injured himself on a catwalk at the facility, resulting in him being sent back to the Earth. Replacing him was Vincent Vandenberg.

Alone in Novac, Max puttered around until hearing an emergency lockdown broadcast from the lunar facility. Not hearing any responses from Agnessa, Max broadcasted an emergency broadcast of his own across the Mojave asking for help.

### Boom to the Moon

Red responded to the emergency signal. Max asked Red to fly in Max's rocket to the facility to check on the situation. Red was skeptical, but upon seeing the similarity of Max's designs with the designs of the Bright Brotherhood rockets, Red decided to take the job. He was sent to find mentats, and met a mentat dealer, Courier Two, another courier from Red's initial job. Two gives Red the mentats for free in exchange for a trip to the moon.
Red, Two, and Max load the rocket, and Max bids them farewell. A few hours later, Red and Two are dumbfouded as the ship's autopilot takes them to Terras Irradient. The two immediately begin their investigation. They find a number of dead bodies scattered across the station.

Daniel McNair was a homesick scientist. Red found him dead in his bed.

Wehrner Hadley was an insecure engineer that became the station's cook. He suffered from depression. Hadley was the first to die, coughing up blood from an unknown sickness. Red found him where the others left him, in a sealed metal box.

   Giovanni Riccioli, a blunt talking scientist, and Danica McKellar were in charge of planning Daniel's birthday party. Red found them dead in the common room.

Lisa Kudrow was a naive scientist working on an edible substance she momentarily named "cheesenium". Red found her dead next to her work, blood in a pool below her.

Valentina was found dead in her bunk bed.

Judith Resnik was overseeing the potato farm. She began writing her own book, "Confederation of Oblivion", about a post-war Manhattan. Her description was far from the actual New York Ruin, but Red enjoyed it nonetheless. She was seeing Vincent. Red found her dead, laying next to her experimental food replicator.

Red and Two find Agnessa's terminal and learn Vincent had poisoned the station's food supply, with only him and Agnessa surviving. They also learned she committed adultery with Jimothy. Red and Two search around the facility and arrive in the communications tower. There, they find Vincent standing over the dead body of Agnessa. Red confronts Vincent, who brushes them off and tries to kill them with his concealed gun, resulting in his brains being blown across the room by Red's lever action shotgun.

Red continued to explore the facility to find a way off. Christa was found dead in the greenhouse. Red then arrived in the Rover Garage where Jimothy worked. Soft-spoken, lonely Jimothy was found dead in the shower, next to a few holodisks where Red unfortunately heard a few very loud rounds of lovemaking with Agnessa.

The two found the facility's blackbox, enabling them to end the security lockdown. After refining nearby moon minerals to form fuel, the two return home. Red informs Max of Agnessa's death, but decides to withhold her adultery. Max thanks Red and asks him to help prepare a memorial. Red does so, only to find Max had fled, leaving a note behind. Max explains he's not good with goodbyes, so he left. Max left for Red a large number of caps and his shack.

## Members

* Daniel McNair - Biotechnologist
* Vincent Vandenberg - Anti Gravity Technician
* Wehrner Hadley - Anti Gravity Engineer
* Jimothy Lunokhod - SEV Mechanic
* Francis Scobee - Ethnobotanist
* Giovanni Riccioli - Biotechnologist
* Lisa Kudrow - Botanical Ecologist
* Danica McKellar - Biotechnologist
* Agnessa Kokoshkova - Station Leader and Chief Medical Officer
* Valentina Ochoa - Botanical Pathologist
* Christa McAuliffe - Botanical Taxonomist
* Judith Resnik - Molecular Engineer