Stationary Clusters represent the second phase of telerobotic settlement, building on the facilities of the Beachhead outpost while accommodating a somewhat ad hoc settlement location and reliance on open environment telerobots with fairly crude manipulative abilities. Beachhead landers would have limited ability to pick precise landing sites, hence the need to deploy them in groups in the rough vicinity of a prospective permanent outpost location. One of their key tasks is to perform a nearby topography survey to pick out likely sites for the more permanent surface outpost, ideally in close proximity to a rock outcropping or cliff face that can be excavated for the fully permanent settlement. But before that intensive construction work can begin, a more sophisticated yet still largely exp