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Moon Mission Scenario Guide

The team has crash-landed on the Moon, about 50 km from the mother ship. Fifteen items survived, and teams must rank which items matter most for survival and rescue.

https://protocol15.com/ai/scenarios/moon

Emotional Tone

  • Isolation
  • Hostile environment
  • Unfamiliar survival logic
  • Pressure to move despite uncertainty

Facilitation Emphasis

Moon Mission is useful because many Earth-based assumptions fail. Participants may overvalue familiar items and undervalue constraints from vacuum, low gravity, extreme temperature, navigation, and communication.

Common Participant Behaviors

  • Treating familiar Earth survival logic as reliable
  • Overvaluing fire-related tools
  • Underestimating oxygen, water, navigation, and communication
  • Debating based on confidence rather than environment-specific reasoning
  • Assuming useful on Earth means useful on the Moon

What To Watch For

  • Who challenges assumptions?
  • Who relies on familiar logic?
  • Who asks about environmental constraints?
  • Does the team distinguish comfort from survival value?
  • Does confidence get treated as evidence?

Debrief Angles

  • Earth assumptions in unfamiliar systems
  • Confidence vs correctness
  • Adapting expertise to a new context
  • Decision-making under incomplete information
  • How quickly the team abandoned bad assumptions

Do Not Reveal During Gameplay

Do not reveal the optimal ranking or explain the expert logic before teams submit.