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[Ukrainian Ranger]

Yes, we are on the job, follow merchant as planned. We need good standing with merchants

Use that new containers as our trash cans , until we feel them up.

Load 100 fighter-sized in Red Rocket

Load 2 railguns with the slugs, one with the fighter sized ammo, one with ballistic arrows.

As for test... wasting ammo in deep space isn't really useful. Only thing that we can learn without target is : will it break our railgun. Besides I am quite sure that it's illegal, or at least unethical to feel space with dangerous trash in non combat situation

Questions to GM:
How powerful those small thrusters are comparing to our auxiliary engines?

[10ebbor10]

Yes, we are on the job, follow merchant as planned. We need good standing with merchants

Use that new containers as our trash cans , until we feel them up.

Load 100 fighter-sized in Red Rocket

Load 2 railguns with the slugs, one with the fighter sized ammo, one with ballistic arrows.

As for test... wasting ammo in deep space isn't really useful. Only thing that we can learn without target is : will it break our railgun. Besides I am quite sure that it's illegal, or at least unethical to feel space with dangerous trash in non combat situation

Questions to GM:
How powerful those small thrusters are comparing to our auxiliary engines?

I meant live practice.

The small thrusters are not interchangeable with the auxilaries. One was designed to move small sattelites and more or less stationary drones, the other for incombat navigation of a 200 meter warship.

[TopHat]

Note down location of signal for later investigation.
Meanwhile, stay on our present course. Our job is to protect the merchants, and it might be a trap.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Maybe we should try to produce our own hull platings? For example combine existing damaged platings in multilayer heavy hull\armor plates and compress. We just need to copy size and form of military grade plates.


Question: Does life support subsystem includes living quarters, kitchen, dining room and so on?

If it's not, I'd like to see living area listed. It's quite empty and can be modified to something more useful if we don't choose to hire more crew.  We may setup some workshops. (Spacefaring dwarf fortress would be cool, wouldn't it?)   Or we may convert living rooms in small cargo bays. Or do  whatever we want

[10ebbor10]

Military grade armor relies on special composites and specially organised multilayered microstructures. While combining will lend something better than what you started with, it will not be perfect.

Life support includes: Heat management, oxygen regeneration, radiation shielding(mostly monitoring) and such.  No kitchens and such included.

Will list living area later. Possibly. Problem is that these are on the inside of the ship, and that many of the airlocks are rather small. Getting anything large inside will be problematic.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

Once we get to our destination (hopefully a more popular station) I think we should con sider hiring some spacers or marines. We might be able to get jobs done a little more quickly.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Well, it's obvious that we have no tools to make military grade hullplate, but we know what size and form we need...


New proposal
Let's turn cargo bay A in our metal workshop\smelter. I suspect that we'll get quite a lot of scrap from battles, so it will be useful nearly forever. We may even buy some higher grade alloys later and make stuff from it. Should be cheaper then buying finished products.

[Gotdamnmiracle]

Take down the location of the signal then jump.

Shia nod's in agreement to David's statement.

(Assuming he said something.)

[Gotdamnmiracle]

Well, it's obvious that we have no tools to make military grade hullplate, but we know what size and form we need...


New proposal
Let's turn cargo bay A in our metal workshop\smelter. I suspect that we'll get quite a lot of scrap from battles, so it will be useful nearly forever. We may even buy some higher grade alloys later and make stuff from it. Should be cheaper then buying finished products.

We can throw an electrical fabricator in there too and pretty much just make whatever we need.

[10ebbor10]

You decide not to investigate the emergency signal, for it would be to dangerous to the ship you're escorting. While ignoring a distress call is technically illegal, you have good reason to expect it to be fake. The merchant doesn't mention the message either, so you feel safe from that side. With a little unease you continue your voyage to the beacon, though you do note down the signal.

You're about halfway to the beacon when you pass a small planetoid, and are suprised by a pirate ship that somehow managed to evade your sensors. It seems to be a modified cargoship, and before you can get some better details on it, 2 fighters appear from the other side of the planetoid setting course for your ship. The pirate ship opens one of it's cargobays, and you can get nought but a glimpse of the inside before the exhaust trails from several missiles obscure your view.

Two missiles curve towards the cargo ship. One is intercepted by it's Point Defenses, while the other gets but a glancing hit. It slams against the hull, but bounces of harmlessly. You have to turn your attention away from the merchant though, as 3 other missiles are rapidly closing in on your ship.
Should you have had a working analystic computer, the cockpit would be filled with alarms and countdowns, but as it is now, it's eerily quiet. Nevertheless, you guess you have only 30 seconds left before impact.

Length: 3 Jumps
Destination: Orbital Fuel refinery 
Possible dangers: Pirate attack
Pay: Fuel expenses + 500 credits

- Station investigation

Spoiler: Sector Map (click to show/hide)

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

Spoiler: Galven inner system (click to show/hide)

-Inner scrapyard: [Illegal to be here]
-Outer scrapyard: A more dangerous place, since ships are actively dumped here and the automated droid patrols make harvesting harder [Illegal to be here]
-Scrapyard borders: Sometimes scrap floats outside of the scrapyard, allowing everyone nearby free pickings.
-Galven III orbital habitation station: The majority of this sector resides here, or on the planet below. Due to the risk of an epidemic and a paranoid governement, planet acces is strongly limited, hence the creation of the orbital hub.
-Galven III Trade hub: This station includes a repair station, and has some governement officials. You probably could get your ship registered here.
-Galven III jump beacon:   [ Pirates(seldomly seen)]

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

Credits: 25

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: 113/2000
Crew: 30

Subsystems:
       -Weaponry:
             - 4 Lasers
             Integrity:60/60; Power: 0/2
             - 4 Rail guns
             Integrity:60/60; Power: 0/1;Ammunition: 2 slugs, 1 arrow, 20 fighter shells
             - Turrets: [1/4 mounted] [Plasma cannon]
             Integrity:30/60 Power: 0/0.5
             - 4 Missile launchers
             Integrity:60/60; Missiles: 4/20
                    -Aegis missile (4)

      -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: offline
            Integrity: 40/40

       -Lifesupport
       Integrity: 60/60;Power use: 1/1; 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  (2/5)
               -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

       -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: (459.5/800)
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]
115 units of railgun ammunition [Scrap Based, S] [12.5]
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]

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: Answers to posts (click to show/hide)

As a note about auxilary thrusters. You can only use 4 thrusters at the same time for arceleration, while doing complicated manoevres (like dodging incoming shots) it is useful to have all 8 thrusters online./

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[TopHat]

Launch 3 missiles to knock out the missiles heading towards the Salvation. Keep the other just in case, and power up the lasers to blast the cargo ship from the skies, before blasting the fighters.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Two missiles, but otherwise the above.

[TopHat]

And just let one hit us?

[GreatWyrmGold]

Oh, I missed that they were counter-missiles.
Never mind, three is good.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

I somehow  doubt that our missiles are accurate enough to knock another missile in flight... And it seems like a waste of a valuable  resource.

My proposal

1) Two missiles in two fighters.
2) Gunner in the plasma turret tries to shot down missile(s) (0.5 power)
3) Evasive maneuver (0.5 power)
4) Fire fighter shells in the direction of the missiles, space shotgun is what we need against rockets, even small damage should be enough to knock it down [0.25 power]
5) Lasers fire in pirate ship (2 power)
6) Request merchant's point defense assistance in knocking missiles heading our way
7) Reduce life support power to 0.75
Launch Red Rocket if we find crazy enough pilot

How long it takes to reload railguns?