Initially, Transport Rover robots would be the primary means of moving goods and materials about the telerobotic outpost. But as the outpost evolves toward permanent settlement and seeks out raw materials across progressively larger areas it will become impractical to employ such telerobots for bulk transit, particularly for the large volumes of raw material a settlement will ultimately need as it establishes materials self-sufficiency. Key materials collection sites will need outposts of their own and with continuous transit links to the primary settlement. Though likely to be semi-automated, the normal telerobots will still require routine monitoring and control by operators on Earth. This becomes impractical when the number of robots technicians must monitor becomes large. Similarly, th