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2 mos ago
Or buy a van or a used rental truck. Something nobody would look twice at. You can put in a rack for the rope, duct tape, plastic sheeting, shovels....
2 mos ago
Never trust a car salesman - especially a used car salesman. Have a buddy park across the street and see how many stuffed body bags you can shove in there. Gotta have room for plastic sheeting, etc.
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2 mos ago
Neil Gaiman wrote in his Good Omens bio that he likes it when fans send him $50. (He read Terry Pratchett's bio and figured it wouldn't hurt.)
2 mos ago
"Hack the planet!" is the movie Hackers playing with a teenaged Laura Croft and Sherlock Holmes battling the skateboarding Fisher Stevens?
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I am a seven-foot tall minecraft-playing hindu guru drag-queen alien.

Possessor of an Ancient Device™ Model 17. No, I don't know what it does. No, you can't play with it.

Pronouns: It. As in: "What is it? What does it want? Why is it here? Oh my god, it's got my... <insert random body part or object here>"

Likes: World Domination, Writing, Rpg, scifi/fantasy, anime, sketchup 3d models, and anime music videos.

Companions: a host of characters from other games, my personal muse Penny (as in Bad), and the Badger gang - Toothpick, Buttons, Shark, and Mongo. They grew up in the balcony of an old theatre that played a lot of gangster movies. Normally benign, but may invade the OOC forums.

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Honestly in the era this RP takes place all these points are probably standard but have varying levels. A full ship of the line warship, a Dreadnought or what have you, would be exactly how you said. But down in a 10 person independent hauler, like there to be first aid kits everywhere but all the big and intricate medical stuff is under the watchful eye of the ship doctor in the medical bay. Not to say a crew member doesn't have something stashed away. Prepare for it to get commandeered though.


Figured we wouldn't have trauma stations with such a ship, so med kits are what I'd expect, and woe onto them who breaks the seal without it being an emergency. Doc could decide your immunization record needs addressing (doc, where did all these syringes come from?), or that special 'seasoning' means you're not coming out of the lav for a really long time.

But nobody touches Karma's stash.
If this was a warship, there would also be alternative trauma stations in those sections away from sickbay, basically a wall cabinet that opens up to reveal a fold-down treatment table, with portable med gear and meds tucked on shelves on either sides of the beds, and lamps that switch to battery should power be disrupted.

The dining area would be a perfect place for one, but I suspect it's also next to both hiberation and sick bay.

Likely what's available is a large med cabinet that can be found in the cargo hold, engineering, and bridge. Near the hatch.
So, what are the regulations on weapons on space trucks?

Ideally, you'd want a Q-ship where the weapons are hidden if we're raiding in space on our own. If it's a sizable space truck, fighters or war drones.

And, of course, deployable emergency radiators.

It would be helpful to be able to reconfigure the ship a bit, projections that move or retract, the ability to change the transponder (or shoot off drones broadcasting the same transponder ship code), even some e-ink panels where the hull changes color or starts displaying graffiti (assuming it's atmospheric capable).
So basically single-stage space trucks and either hyperspace gates, hyperspace or spacefold ferries.

Could be fun.
no idea.
I certainly have a few ideas :)

@Expendable Any idea on when we can expect your character sheet?


Later tonight. Working on an engineer / racer type. Orangutan. Not big on the color "orange".

@Milkman maybe tomorrow night.

J'eon the Blacksmith




"It.. is not," the Glen blacksmith replied softly, lying on his side in the cart, feeling the chest on its back. If it breathed shallowly, the broken ribs in its upper torso didn't shift with sharp jagged pain, while the broken ribs in his lower half were only a dull ache, now that the cart was no longer finding every pebble on the bloody road.

He had been staring at Shirik, keeping his mind off of the pain by wondering just what sort of being the tree was that it could call up the flame in its own body and yet not be consumed by it. But now it stared at the doctor and her piercings along her upper beak. Didn't that make eating difficult?

"Thank... you," J'eon replied, nodding his head with the least possible movement, "for coming... like this."

His hope was that they didn't leave a trail for whatever creature would be looking for the one they killed.
*whispers*

Nerds...

Hehehe sorry couldn't resist.

Skimmed all that, wanna know more of what's going on will read when not barely awake...




you have no idea.
In Cowboy Bebop, they had developed hyperspace gates that allowed ships to travel between the terraformed planets and moons in the solar system in a matter of hours. Gates are a frequently used method of travel, which helped in system defense. It may be necessary to use a gate to get to a system, but you don't necessarily come out of the gate, just somewhere along the edge and spend the next week or so transiting in-system.

For Firefly, basically they terraformed many of the planets of a binary star system. You get the impression that the core worlds are those intermost to their primaries, while the frontier were the outer worlds. Thus a trip between neighboring planets took days, not centuries.

I like Traveller's jump drives. C.J. Cherryh had something similar, but ship crews and passengers would not be conscious during their jumps. They'd hang saline bags for IVs and make sure water and ration bars were nearby for when they regained consciousness days later. Their biggest surprise was to find out one of the races, the Kif, did not become unconscious during a ship jump. Cargo was also packed in drums and loaded into a sort of giant rack in the hold.

Alternately, you could have some sort of unique warp drive. I read one where the warp field is generated by cables that retract into the hull following a jump to protect them.

For one of my games, I came up with an Exotic Matter drive - basically dark matter is like an iceberg - we see 10% of it at the normal space level, but 90% of the mass is "submerged" in a form of subspace. Exotic matter drives work by taking a fragment of dark matter at the heart of the drive and using fields to push the dark matter further into subspace, dragging the rest of the ship with it, partially submerging the ship into subspace in a sort of interface layer, so you're able to move at greater than light speeds while still able to see normal space.

But you have to watch out for gravity shoals, the wells created by the stars and even the dimples of planets. As you move towards a gravity shoal, the dark matter starts getting pushed back into normal space. The last thing you want to do is have a drive failure where the field collapses and the dark matter rebounds, swelling within the drive casing until it bursts through, splitting the ship apart. And then it returns to subspace, dragging nearby fragments back into subspace with it.

I also developed a type 2 drive where additional coils allow the entire ship to be submerged in subspace and you navigate by detecting quasars as they pulse in both normal space and subspace. By finding the relative positions between two such quasars, you can navigate near enough to an edge of a planetary system, then spend the next two weeks going insystem to a planet, or if they have a way station, you travel to one of those to do your trades where someone takes your cargo to tran-ship to the planet, while you make arrangements to take on cargo shipment

However, not many have a type 2 drive.

Interstellar ansibles use the exotic matter drive to open a small portal into subspace so they can then transmit & receive, so you have near instant communications between systems. You could decide it still takes a week or more for the messages to be received. Also, ansibles are basically small space stations. Military ships can configure themselves to become ansibles, but they basically can't do much else while transmitting and waiting for a response.


So no alien races yet. Are furries here basically chimaera? A mixing of human and animal dna?
Jack Mallory, X.O.



"It's a mad-house... captain...!?!" the X.O. yelped as the leather cap was unceremoniously yanked off his head and carelessly tossed aside. His eyes darted to the back of her head as she went past, then behind him to find the cap - which was surprisingly warm. And possibly the only hat he'd have until they returned. And if they lost gravity, potential F.O.D. hazard.

Danny, Danny, Danny, he sighed shaking his head.What did I ever do to you?

Leaning forward over the radar plot, he took out his white wax pencil and marked out a plot. "Captain, recommend we come right seven and one-half degree for 600 yards, then left seven and one-half degree to resume our base course for 190 yards, then left three degrees for the next eight hundred yards.... What the...?"

There was six tracks coming up behind them....?

"Captain! We've got missiles coming up our butts!"

They had nothing at all back there but that kinetic shield - and he didn't think it was built to withstand that sort of blast.

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