A file is put on your desk.

[drakesdoom]

That's good and all but mere child's play compared to my plans.

We must learn more of kerbol which will require sample returns of the corona. The best place to launch a mission with the goal of a super low altitude kerbol flyby would be eelo so we must have a refueling base their. Then jeb is going to go bottle fire.

[Temstar]

I reckon the high inclination moons are not practical locations for resource mining, or at least fuel/oxidiser mining.

If you look at Gilly for example, it takes more than 1300m/s delta-V to reach Gilly from Low Eve Orbit, more for actually capture into Gilly orbit, potentially a lot more for inclination adjustment.

So then, if it takes 1500m/s for your interplanetary ship located in LEO to reach the Gilly orbit propellant depot, why would you actually want to go there? For 1500m/s I could return to Low Kerbin Orbit for refuelling, and chances are if I need fuel in Low Eve Orbit I need it because I want to return to Kerbin.

Alternatively if we put the propellant depot in Low Eve Orbit we could lift fuel off Gilly's surface to it. But it takes something like 800m/s to go from Gilly surface to Low Eve Orbit. If I'm going to spend 800m/s to get fuel from Gilly to Eve why wouldn't I just spend 1000m/s instead to move fuel from LKO to LEO?

[FITorion]

I start outfitting my orbital probes with the sensors and sending them to Mun, Minmus, Duna, Eve, Jool and related moons, and Moho and maybe even Eeloo.

Then I outfit my rovers and send them out.

After that I think I'd set up a base on the Mun and Minmus with orbital stations at both to transfer the fuel to.

This is only looking at the fuel making resources. I don't know how my plans will change once the other resources are in and I finally understand what they are used for.

[ThatBum]

Probably Minmus. It's close to Kerbin and the gravity is very low, making trips to ferry fuel to a station and back easier.