Editing Pallas Deep-Core Survey (section)

=== Aftermath and Legacy ===

The survey formally concluded in October 2098 CE. All personnel were evacuated to transit vessels without loss of life, a notable outcome given the extended duration and difficult operating conditions. The primary scientific report, authored by Dr. Mäkinen and co-signed by Vasanthakumar and Cruceru, was distributed to major belt industrial interests and filed with the Asteroid Arbitration Tribunal. The [[Belt Foundry Accords|The Belt Foundry Accords]] of 2114 CE referenced the survey's findings when establishing baseline resource classification standards for mid-belt bodies.

The Pallas Deep-Core Survey had no immediate successor operation. Funding proposals for an extraction feasibility study circulated among belt industrial consortia for more than a decade before the resource jurisdiction debates that produced the [[Ceres Charter Compact]] in 2188 CE temporarily froze new extraction claims on undeveloped mid-belt bodies. The [[Pallas Independence Plebiscite]] of 2201 CE eventually cited the survey record as foundational evidence for Pallas's claim to resource sovereignty over its own subsurface.

Oduya's tensioned-anchor borehole system, patented through the [[Clarke Orbital Assembly Ladder]] industrial registry in 2099 CE, became the basis for a family of low-gravity drilling technologies used across the outer belt for the following century.