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[TopHat]

And the shuttle has a largish cargo hold...

[Ukrainian Ranger]

It's not largish

But in fact we can store bulk cargo, that doesn't need right condition like air pressure and temperature in our dock area. If one dock space can store ship with 1000 cargospace, it bound to be able to store that 1000 cargo directly

Another option - towing containers. Or hiring freighters. So yes, this problem is solvable

[10ebbor10]

You search the local networks for interesting offers, and are sad to find out that there's no such thing as a mining laser. The energy needed for vaporising useless rock is way to costly, making them economically uninteresting.  Mining explosives and modified railgun shells are available though, as well as a variety of industrial equipment. Though quite  a few things require licenses you don't have, some of them are accesible and within your budget, if only barely. Some others are not, but it is nice to know they are there.

You're unsure what to do with the pirates, so you just leave them where they are for the moment.  Charlie chats with them, and listens to their stories. It's the same story you'd hear every day. They had nothing, and then someone picked them up and offered them a job. They seemed quite content of their lives there, but don't feel much for the people you killed on the cargoship. Apparently crews are switched out often.

Meanwhile, some others are checking on mining licenses. It appears that in most sectors these are sold to the highest bidder, though some sectors work on a per asteroid base. The mining rights for Merope are all in hands of the MMC, the Merope mining cooperation. Looking for more info, you stumble on an interesting piece of news, apparently pirate forces have attacked and captured one of the MMC's privates sectors, destroying the local patrol ships and capturing more than 100.000 credits in raw materials. The MMC has reacted to this by hiring mercenaries, and placing bounties on several of the Pirate captains.

Spoiler:  List (click to show/hide)

Missiles
Emergency flare (Longe range, large, slow ,thermic payload designed to show up on radar screens) :50
Skiff missile (Designed to confuse enemy targetting, slow, short ranged) : 20
Tow missile (Basic laserguided missile +rope[Reuseable]): 125
Asteroid Crusher (Slow, short range, Dumb fired, High yield payload): 375 (6)
Driller nuke (Extremely slow, large range; dumb fire, Nuclear payload): 2000 [Requires permits to have and use] (1)

Weaponry:
HD railgun shells: 19/ unit (67 available)


General:
Fuel: 1.8 credits each
Food: 0.5 credits each
Mineral scanner: 300 credits
Industrial blast forge and refinery: 2175 (Large, power hungry)
MQ resources: 9/ unit

- Station investigation

Spoiler: Sector Map (click to show/hide)

Galven System
      -Inner system
      -Outer system
Merope
     -Inner system
     -Outer system

Spoiler: Merope (click to show/hide)

Orbital fuel refinery A
Merope 3 trade hub Trade hub

Spoiler: Assets and reputations (click to show/hide)

Credits: 525
Merchants: +1

Spoiler: Salvation (click to show/hide)

Armour: Depleted, several holes ( 4500 Good. 1200 damaged, 170 Teladine ,130 LQ patches)
Structural: Good shape, several holes (LQ patches)
Power supply: 4/8
Fuel: 293/2000
Crew: 30 (2)

Subsystems:
       -Weaponry:
             - 4 Lasers
             Integrity:60/60; Power: 2/2
             - 4 Rail guns
             Integrity:60/60; Power: 0.25/1;Ammunition: 2 slugs, 1 arrow, 20 fighter shells
             - Turrets: [1/4 mounted] [Plasma cannon]
             Integrity:30/60 Power: 0.5/0.5
             - 4 Missile launchers
             Integrity:60/60; Missiles: 2/20
                    -Aegis missile (2)

      -Control
      Integrity: 20/20 Manned; LQ computing system; Cargoship OS
      -Sensors No computer Assistance
            -LQ Passive sensor:online
            Integrity: 20/20
            -MQ Active (Targetting) sensor: online
            Integrity: 40/40

       -Lifesupport
       Integrity: 60/60;Power use: 0.75/1; Heat: Normal

       -Reactors
         4/8:Online;Integrity:40/40;
         4/8:Offline;Integrity:2.5/40;

       -Jumpdrive
           -Jumpcore
            Integrity: 75/80
            -Jumpcontrol:
            Integrity: 40/40;Manual control;Slow automatic calc
            -Jumpcapacitors
            Integrity: 26/80; Tertiary capacitor only Power: 0/3

       -Engines
            - Main engines down (Severely damaged)
            Integrity: 10/100 Power: 0/2
            -Auxilary thrusters
            Integrity:40/80;4/8 Online Power: 0.5/1

       -Docking bay  (4/5)
               -Cargo shuttle (142/400 fuel)
               Integrity: 80/80;Armor: 200/200; Cargo:0/1000
               -"Red Rocket" (Lamprey class boat) (49/100 fuel)
               Integrity: 60/60;Armor: 60/60; Railguns: Online;Ammo: 100/100 Cargo:0/10
               -Pirate Fighter (24/50 fuel)
Integrity: 48/60;Armor: 8/20; Missiles: Com jammer  Cargo:0/20
               -Pirate Fighter (13/50 fuel)
Integrity: 42/60;Armor: 6/20; Missiles: Com jammer Cargo:0/20 Engine Damage

       -Cargo Bays (4)
           -Cargo Bay A
           Integrity:40/40; Cargo: 200/200
           -Cargo Bay B
           Integrity:40/40; Cargo: 200/200
           -Cargo Bay C
           Integrity:40/40; Cargo: 200/200
           -Cargo Bay D
           Integrity:40/40; Cargo: 200/200

       -Habitation
           -Common room
           -10 4 people chambers
           -3 20 people chambers
Cargo: (461.5/800)
360 units of food (1 unit per crewmember per day) [195]
Plenty of low quality scrap metal and damaged armour/hull plating [50]
30 spacesuits (Modified emergency suits, not that durable, nor usefull.) [3]
10 units of Military grade Hull plating. [10]
95 units of railgun ammunition [Scrap Based, S] [9.5]
10 Empty rail gun shells [Scrapbased, L] [10]
9 ballista arrows [Scrap based, M] [4.5]
8 HD slugs [Scrapbased, L] [8]
2 Small thrusters[10]
Advanced tools [20]
2 Crawler drones [10]
2 mosquito missiles (Very Fast, laser guided, Low yield shaped payload)[1]
11 Hand made missiles(Slow, unguided, Medium payload) [Unreliable] [11]

Spoiler: Fuel Use (click to show/hide)

Short use (Dodging, in area short movement)
- Cargo shuttle: 5 fuel
- Lamprey: 1 fuel
- Auxilary engines: 1.25 each
- Main engines: 10 each
Medium use(Exploration of sector, moving between relatively close sectors)
-Cargo shuttle: 10 fuel
- Lamprey: 5 fuel
- Auxilary engines : 2.5 each (Note, even at the best of times you can only use 4 due to their placement)
- Main engines : 15 each
Long term use (Moving between relatively far away sectors)
-Cargo shuttle: 25 fuel
- Lamprey: 10 fuel
- Auxilary engines : 7.5 each (Note, Even at the best of times you can only use 4 at once due to their placement)
- Main engines : 25 each

Spoiler: Characters (click to show/hide)

-John Gibson (TylerTheCreator)
     -Gunner
-Promtho (Terra 162)
     -Engineer
-Diana Banks (Ukrainian Ranger)
     -Diplomat
-George William Gyralt (GreatWyrmWold)
     -Doctor
-Legion McCaffee (Dariush)
     -Mechanic
Max Lukasson (Tophat)
     -Pilot
-Baxter (Hubris Incalculable)
    -Computer Technician
Charlie Phelps (The Card)
    -Field medic
Shia Trotsky (GotdamnMiracle)
    -Recon
David Chapel
    -Head of personnel

Spoiler: Memoranda (click to show/hide)

If you want an action executed by the crew, just type and bold it. If you want it to be done by your character, please explicitedly state so, and use bold +Italics.
Character actions might be ignored during conflicts or for secret GM reasons.

Anyway, going to list combat modifiers just because I can. These are not used in the previous encounter, because the system wasn't ready. These can be subject to additional modifiers from player actions.

For targetting:
Cruiser class weaponry: - 4
No targetting computer: -2
Laser weaponry: +2
MQ targetting sensor: 0 (No sensor= -2)
Evasive manoevres: +2 (Requires thrusters)


Damage:
Cruiser class weaponry: + 4
Depends on rail gun ammo: +X
Cruiser class medium armor: +6
armor damage: -2

Spoiler: Notes (click to show/hide)

Feel free to ask for a map, or try to explore on your own. The plot is rigid enough for me to avoid railroading.

[TopHat]

I still say that we don't hand in the pirates.
They were flying meatshield fighters, so they probably aren't worth a bounty.
I'd also suggest buying a Tow missile, as they are reusable and downright useful.
We may also want a mineral scanner: pull in a rich asteroid with the tow missile, and break it up by hand.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

I want this "Industrial blast forge and refinery: 2175 (Large, power hungry) " And I don't care how much we need to sell to get this.

We will produce our own high quality railgun shells, hullplates or simply metal for sale, both from raw materials and scrap

BTW power hungry = ? reactors

[Zako]

I agree with a possible tow missile, but I'm not sure about the scanner. Mining is too much effort, expense and risk for a possible small reward. I think we should get more fuel and nab another job.

Also, skip on the forge. It's not worth it, we probably won't be able to power it easily and we don't know how to make the real good stuff, or even decent stuff. We can just buy or scavenge what we need a lot easier than making it.

[10ebbor10]

It uses between 1-3 reactors depending on what you let it do. You can use hydrogen fuel for additional heating.

As for the size, it wouldn't fit in a single cargo bay.

[Zako]

Then forget it, we don't have the room to spare. Get fuel instead.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

IMO, Before any purchases we should decide what to to do with pirates

And yep, refinery is too large... If we could find smaller one, that could fit in one cargobay I'd consider it

And still I think we will benefit if we turn one cargobay in a metal processing workshop, self sufficiency is very useful 

[Zako]

Well, since they are really just like us, I think we can be safe with keeping them in our crew. If they give us trouble or are wanted by the law, we can just sell them out without any real problems. Their skill as fighter pilots will definately be useful for us.

I also think we should just skip mining and the whole metal processing workshop stuff, since it's too much effort, risk and cost for mining equipment for so little benefit. We don't even know HOW to make high end stuff, let alone high end materials which would doutlessly have more components required than just minerals mined out of an asteroid. We can safely skip it in favour of easier things.

[Thecard]

Well, since they are really just like us, I think we can be safe with keeping them in our crew. If they give us trouble or are wanted by the law, we can just sell them out without any real problems. Their skill as fighter pilots will definately be useful for us.

I also think we should just skip mining and the whole metal processing workshop stuff, since it's too much effort, risk and cost for mining equipment for so little benefit. We don't even know HOW to make high end stuff, let alone high end materials which would doutlessly have more components required than just minerals mined out of an asteroid. We can safely skip it in favour of easier things.

Yes.  They wouldn't be worth much to the authorities, but they're more crew (and would be interesting for any new members?) for us.  Also, the tow missile sounds like it might have practical uses.  We should get a rope and a few missiles.  The rope is re-usable, but the missiles aren't, right?

[10ebbor10]

Well, since they are really just like us, I think we can be safe with keeping them in our crew. If they give us trouble or are wanted by the law, we can just sell them out without any real problems. Their skill as fighter pilots will definately be useful for us.

I also think we should just skip mining and the whole metal processing workshop stuff, since it's too much effort, risk and cost for mining equipment for so little benefit. We don't even know HOW to make high end stuff, let alone high end materials which would doutlessly have more components required than just minerals mined out of an asteroid. We can safely skip it in favour of easier things.

Yes.  They wouldn't be worth much to the authorities, but they're more crew (and would be interesting for any new members?) for us.  Also, the tow missile sounds like it might have practical uses.  We should get a rope and a few missiles.  The rope is re-usable, but the missiles aren't, right?

Missile and rope are one construction and both are somewhat reuseable. The missile might need refueling and a patched up anchor, but it's designed to be reuseable.

[Thecard]

Well, since they are really just like us, I think we can be safe with keeping them in our crew. If they give us trouble or are wanted by the law, we can just sell them out without any real problems. Their skill as fighter pilots will definately be useful for us.

I also think we should just skip mining and the whole metal processing workshop stuff, since it's too much effort, risk and cost for mining equipment for so little benefit. We don't even know HOW to make high end stuff, let alone high end materials which would doutlessly have more components required than just minerals mined out of an asteroid. We can safely skip it in favour of easier things.

Yes.  They wouldn't be worth much to the authorities, but they're more crew (and would be interesting for any new members?) for us.  Also, the tow missile sounds like it might have practical uses.  We should get a rope and a few missiles.  The rope is re-usable, but the missiles aren't, right?

Missile and rope are one construction and both are somewhat reuseable. The missile might need refueling and a patched up anchor, but it's designed to be reuseable.

Really?  Cool, let's just get one.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

Well, since they are really just like us, I think we can be safe with keeping them in our crew. If they give us trouble or are wanted by the law, we can just sell them out without any real problems. Their skill as fighter pilots will definately be useful for us.

I also think we should just skip mining and the whole metal processing workshop stuff, since it's too much effort, risk and cost for mining equipment for so little benefit. We don't even know HOW to make high end stuff, let alone high end materials which would doutlessly have more components required than just minerals mined out of an asteroid. We can safely skip it in favour of easier things.

Oy fine. I guess they can stay.

 Regarding the refinery... we can always have an hq. That would require mining swell to expand it, unless it is like a space station.

Let's use all of our credits getting things online and fixing reachers engines... just fixing ourselves up. Next we should nab a job.

[TopHat]

See how much they'd repair a reactor for.