Ship's Locker: Out of the Closet

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Oxygen Tanks

1. A twin set of compressed oxygen tanks, allowing independent breathing in smoke, dust, gas or Exotic atmospheres.

2. Two tanks last six hours.

3. These tanks are not suitable for underwater use, see underwater airtanks (Page 114) instead.

4. A refill of proper atmospheric mixture for any given species costs Cr20.

5. Two tanks providing 6 hours of air supply 12 kg Cr500.

6. Four refills a day, eighty kilostarbux.

7. Thirty days, twenty four hundred kilostarbux.

8. Nominally, spacecraft life support costs two thousand kilostarbux per month.

9. Need the costs and volume for the oxygen refill apparatus, to cut the refill costs.

 

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Oxygen Tanks

A. It's technological level five.

B. While I can carry around a twelve kilogramme backpack, it's a lot less fun than it's made out to be.

C. Modern technology should be able to reduce that weight.

D. Drastically, three millenia later.

E. It's the cost of refills that gets you.

F. Maybe they're using sodastream Oxy.

 

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Advanced Base and Camping at Home

1. Dismantled and ready for shipment, the advanced base displaces six ship tons, with each additional module taking up 0.5 tons of cargo space when properly crated.

2. A single fully expanded module would occupy five ship tons.

3. Sort of two ways to incorporate advanced base habitat modules onboard.

4. The cheapest, would be to just set up shop in a cargo hold.

5. Though, with forethought, the cargo hold could be specifically dimensioned to optimize setting up said advanced base modules.

6. The other one, would be the cave option.

7. You don't actually need the exterior walls, for either shelter, or frame for the advanced base components.

8. Staterooms, or other accommodations, could be used as substitutes.

9. Though, we probably should adjust them to five tonnes, to accommodate said components.

 

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Advanced Base and Camping at Home

A. If you think about it, does the cargo hold have oxygen or climate control?

B. Or, for that matter, either the bridge or the engineering compartment?

C. If life support is centred, and dependent, on any number of staterooms?

D. While it's rarely demonstrated, a lot of spacecraft would have redundant systems, including life support.

E. Without power, the spacecraft systems don't work.

F. You will run out of air, and you can't move, to escape to somewhere you can survive.

 

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Advanced Base and Camping at Home

G. Spacecraft listed accommodations don't have have a specific power point requirement.

H. I'd speculate any power requirement is tapped from basic systems.

I. Which, of course, includes climate control, oxygen regeneration, and plumbing.

J. Which leaves us with the issue of wilderness housing.

K. On how they could tap the spacecraft power grid.

 

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Advanced Base and Camping at Home

G. A Fusion Plus generator will operate for one month off water electrolysed into hydrogen and expels oxygen as a waste gas.

H. It does not require or support external fuel tanks, as its fuel supply is constantly run through a series of cooling and generating tubes to provide fusion at relatively low temperatures.

I. The water doubles as radiation shielding and accounts for half the mass of the reactor.

J. Oxygen is the only waste product, expelled gradually over the generator’s period of operation.

K. Oxygen generation, and green energy.

 

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Inspiration: Vanguard (Ark Royal, Band 3)

HMS Vanguard is the most powerful battleship ever to be commissioned by the Royal Navy, but she is not a happy ship. Her commanding officer is eccentric, rarely seen on the bridge; her former XO has deserted his post; and her first middy is resentful because he hasn't been promoted as he deserves.

But when a first contact mission goes badly wrong, HMS Vanguard and her crew are plunged into an interstellar war against a new and deadly alien threat. And if they don't make it back to friendly space in time, they will merely be the first to die in a new interstellar war.


Going through the Vargr ... ah, Vanguard arc.

Cowed to submission.

 

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Advanced Base and Camping at Home

L. Deuterium-enriched water, available for Cr500 per recharge, will increase the generator’s operating duration by a factor of 10 before it requires refuelling and maintenance.

M. Could try that for default fusion reactors.

N. When the internal fuel storage and cooling system runs dry, the generator must undergo maintenance to its filters and cooling tubes.

O. A generator restart requires a successful Average (8+) Mechanic check (INT or EDU,1D hours) and a full refuelling.

P. Sort of a one shot.

 

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Advanced Base and Camping at Home

Q. Two tonne Sterling Fission Power Plant technological level twelve, twelve power points at one and three fifths megastarbux for twenty years.

R. Budget/inflated size two tonnes, nine and three fifths power points at nine and three fifths hundred kilostarbux.

S. Twenty five tonnes stables at sixty two and a half kilostarbux, capacity fifty humans.

T. Primitive planetoid hull forty tonnes, thirty two tonnes usable, eighty kilostarbux, thirty two/hundred times one power point basic systems.

U. 1'102.5 kilostarbux, but amortized over twenty years.

 

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I loved the concept that if I waited long enough, I can buy something at a pretty hefty discount from the starport, and only manufactured necessities.

 

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It's not Heinlein, Hubbard OR Andy Weir

1. I've read a lot, and I doubt I regret never getting around to that.

2. If I wanted to read adolescent power fantasies, there are isekai manga.

3. I think what we ended up with was self deluded hypocrisy.

4. To be fair, I did read Battlefield Earth.

5. Which was a fun way to detract, when I ran into Scientologist recruiters.

6. It had it's moments, but can be described as mostly meh.

7. As with Heinlein, it's identifying the author's intent.

8. And as with all philosophy, whether you can or want to apply, all, or in part, of it, to your interaction with the universe.

9. Or, just be amused by the maze and the rats.