While the goal of colonization is to achieve some high degree of self-sufficiency, eliminating a reliance on supply from Earth or elsewhere, a robust routine transportation system will still be necessary to support these new lunar and planetary branches of civilization. When supplying early outposts a transportation strategy based on transporting single-use landing craft whole makes sense and, as we have discussed previously, economizing on this through the use of ‘rough’ lander systems for cargo is key to the telerobotic pre-settlement strategy. But as the settlement approaches the status of a permanent colony and more routinely deals in human traffic than cargo, a different strategy for transit will be necessary that can employ local resources and reusable vehicles in transit. Routine tr