Delivering supplies and equipment to the lunar or planetary surface in great quantity and at low cost will be key to making colonization attainable. The ultimate goal of the telerobotic settlement is, of course, self-sufficiency through the ability to replicate all its systems with local resources. But initially there would be little such capability and so it is necessary to supply initial outposts as economically as possible. Employing telerobotic settlement prior to human settlement itself greatly aids this by drastically reducing the scale and cost of spacecraft and systems by virtue of their lack of need for ‘man rating’ of hardware. But further steps will be needed to make this approach practical at the potential small community project scale it aspires to. Key to this is the strategy