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[Zako]

I still think we should repair more of our generators, but I guess that can wait... How are we doing on fuel?

[Ukrainian Ranger]

We have enough fuel for weeks. It's not a problem

As for generators, in the planned  combo we can meet 70% of our max power needs even without battery. It's enough for me. We just need flexibility in decisions.  Adding new systems is far more important than power generation for non existing systems. Had we more credits I'd prefer fixing jump-capacitor or one more turret or one more engine to fixing another generator.

[10ebbor10]

You manage to make serious profits on the sale, and use that money to give the Salvation a good refurbishment. The Hull is patched up, engines are repaired and new weaponry is installed .A new reactor is wired in, an the old one is removed to the newly installed cargo bay. Sensors are improved, a proper medbay is installed and after a few days work the ship is ready to go. ((Please give colourfull description.))

Which leaves only the question of where to go next, and maybe some last supplies to be bought. There are more than hundred cargo transfer requests as well as other missions in the system, but leaving out those that can't be done with your ship, won't be probable or are to far away returns a meager list.

The supply ship that normally provides food and other supplies to a number of colonies in the outer rim has never arrived. In order to prevent an impeding food shortage, the Jaltan colonies have decided to travel to the inner systems (or as close as you can get within a reasonable timeframe) in order to oversee the deliverance of supplies themselves. They know need someone to take the supplies back to their colonies.

The Oddysea coorporation is willing to give a large bounty to whomever is willing to look for their lost Jumpship Surveyor, which is apparently lost somewhere beyond the known systems. The last message dates back to 2 weeks ago, and seems to indicate a problem with their primary jump drive. (Message delivered by partly fragmented Jump drone*)

Many traditionall shipping compagnies have refused to do cargo runs towards planets near the Quarantined zone, fearing that another increase of the Quarantine might lock them in. As such, the planets near the zone are undersupplied, and many people are trying to leave.

There's still the investigation of the station near the Galven system.

A colony ship heading for the outer rim is trying to buy some cheap protection. They haven't got much, and their ship is completely undefended, and largely unarmored.

An archeology site near the Galven system has gone silent. Their main benefactor would like you to check up on them, to see if everything's alright.

*A drone which is launched through a small jumpfield generator, in order to quickly deliver messages without requiring the whole ship to jump.

Spoiler: Available goods (click to show/hide)

Missiles
 Aegis Missile (Small, very fast, decent range , extremely small payload): 125 each (73 available)
 Mosquito missile (Small, fact, decent range, small payload): 75 each (123 avaible)
 Dummy misille (Small-Large, decent range, no payload): 20 each (Avaible in all sorts/ sizes)
 Firelance missile (Small, long range, dumbfire, medium payload): 75 (65 avaible)
 Dragonfly anti fighter missile (Small, long range, Image recognition, Small-medium payload): 100 (65)
 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

Weaponry
Chemical laser (requires ammo) Size M                  : 250  (This is a normal laser, not for point defense)
PD laser: Size M    (0.25 power)                             : 500 
Hull cutter: Size XS (0.1 power, very short range, powerfull for it's size) : 150

Flak cannon: (Size M, uses ammo, targets everything, very short range): 300
Fighter railgun (Size XS, uses ammo, medium range): 150
Electromagnetic grapple (Size M, short range, 0.5 power): 200

Ammunition:

LD railgun shells: 10/unit (125 aviable) (warning large, hard to stop)
HD railgun shells: 20/ unit (367 available)
Explosive railgun shells: 50/unit (223 avaible)
Shrapnel railgun shells: 25/unit (76 avaible)

Flak ammo: 5/unit (1 ammo used per enemy targetted)
Chemical laser ammo: 5/ unit
Fighter ammo: 1/unit

General:
Fuel: 2 credits each
Food: 0.5 credits each
Basic space suit: 1 credit
Mechanised space suit: 50 credits

Equipment:
Simple tools: 250
Advanced tools: 575
Drop/boarding/ escape pod (10 people max): 275
Nuclear power cell: 500 (Produces 0.5 power) Doesn't come with fuel rods. Produces heat. Fairly large
Basic Medical equipment: 500
Advanced medical equipment: 2000
Simple targetting assist: 500 (More than this you're not going to get easily, as it is either military software or incompactible with your ship)
Battery power unit: Stores 5 power ,large : 500

Ship parts: (Note that all civilian parts will take more time to switch between different energy production)
Civilian Pulse fusion reactor (Produces 0.5 power): 450
Civilian Tomatak fusion reactor (Produces 0.75 power): 600
Civilian Industrial fusion reactor (Produces 2 power): 1500


Resources: (A system repair will need about 10 of these, with difference on how complicated they are)
Simple electronics 10/unit
Electronics 25/ unit
Complex electronics: 50/unit

MQ resources: 10/ unit
HQ: 25/unit

Hull plating:

Dunarim light hull plating: 1/unit
Teladine hull plating: 5/unit
Reflective hull plating: 20/unit (Better against laser hits, and operating close to stars)
Reactive hull plating: 20/unit (Better against kinetic hits)
Stealth hull plating: 25/unit

Spoiler: Sell list (click to show/hide)

Cargo shuttle: 1250
Fighter: 600
Damaged reactor: worthless
Space suit: worthless

Spoiler: List of repairs (click to show/hide)

Laser repair: 100
Cargo bay to workshop: Depends on equipment placed
Docking to cargo: 500 (not easily reversible. Lots of stuff needs to be cut away(docking clamps and such) (former)Docking will be used to dump heat/ other bad stuff if needed. Gives 1250 cargo space)
Medbay conversion: Depends on equipment
Luxury chambers: Anywher from 50 -500
Aux reactor room: 500 (not including cost for cutting away stuff. Cargo bay is space for 1 small reactor, docking for 5)
Fighter repair: 100 (for upgrades, give me something and I'll see. The fighters armour is made for 20 units of duranim)
Repaint: 200 (Free if you buy any major structural improvements.)
 
Complete structural fix: 6300
     -Weapon mounts fix: 250 each
     -Getting the salvation Aerocapable: 1300 (Needs Aux engine fix and armor fix too(atleast teladine))
Reactor fix: 1000 each
Jumpcapacitor fix: 750 for secundary, 2000 for full
Main engine fix: 750 each (You got 2 main engines)
Auxilary thruster fix: 125 each
Duranim patch replacement: 160
Teladine: 800

Spoiler: Hiring (click to show/hide)

Nobody found yet.

Spoiler: Sector Map (click to show/hide)

Galven System
      -Inner system
      -Outer system
Merope
     -Inner system
     -Outer system
Cor caroli Shipyard
Pirate sector
Pirate sector
Pirate base

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: 500
Merchants: +1
MMC

Spoiler: Salvation (click to show/hide)

Armour: Depleted, several holes ( 4490 Good. 1220 damaged, 310 Teladine)
Structural: 1770/3000
Power supply: 4.5/7 (5/5 storage)
Fuel: 319/2000
Crew: 30 (1 wounded)
              -2 Pirate faction A

Subsystems:
       -Weaponry:
             - 4 Lasers
             Integrity:60/60; Power: 1/2
             - 4 Rail guns
             Integrity:60/60; Power: 0/1;Ammunition: 1 slugs, 2 arrow, 20 fighter shells
             - Turrets: [3/4 mounted]
             Plasma cannon turret
             Integrity:15/15 Power: 0.5/0.5
             Quad fighter railgun turret
             Integrity:15/15 Power: 0.25/0.25 Ammuntion: 0/400
             Flak cannon
             Integrity:15/15 Power: 0.1/0.1 Ammuntion: 10/50
             - 4 Missile launchers
             Integrity:60/60; Missiles: 11/20
                    -Tow missile (1)
                    -Mosquito missiles (2)
                    -4 aegis missiles (Very fast, agile, Very low payload)
                    -2 Zephyrus Orbit to air missiles (slow, large target, laser guided, High payload)
                    -2  Wasp missiles (fast, unguided, small payload)


      -Control
      BridgeIntegrity: 20/20 Manned; MQ computing system; Cargoship OS
      Automated sensor systems: Online (+2 to targetting and detection)

      -Sensors
            -MQ Passive sensor:online
            Integrity: 30/30
            -MQ Active (Targetting) sensor: online
            Integrity: 40/40

       -Lifesupport
       Integrity: 60/60;Power use: 1/1; Heat: Normal (0/20)

       -Reactors
         4/7:Online;Integrity:40/40;
         3/7:Offline;Integrity:2.5/40;
         Civilian Pulse reactorOnline Integrity: 20/20
         Battery Integrity: 10

       -Jumpdrive
           -Jumpcore
            Integrity: 75/80Charge: 50%
            -Jumpcontrol:
            Integrity: 40/40;Manual control;Slow automatic calc
            -Jumpcapacitors
            Integrity: 26/80; Tertiary capacitor only Power: 1/3

       -Engines
            - Main engines (1/2 working)
            Engine one: Integrity: 50/50 Power: 1/1
            Engine two: Integrity: 5/50 Power: 0/1
            -Auxilary thrusters
            Integrity:40/80;4/8 Online Power: 0.5/1

       -Docking bay  (4/4)
               -Cargo shuttle (142/400 fuel)
               Integrity: 80/80;Armor: 200/200; Cargo:0/1000
               -"Red Rocket" (Lamprey class boat) (43/100 fuel)
               Integrity: 60/60;Armor: 60/60; Railguns: Online;Ammo: 80/100 Cargo:0/10
               -Pirate Fighter (20/50 fuel)                                   
Integrity: 46/60;Armor: 14/20; Missiles(2/2): Handmade Missile   Cargo:0/20
               -Pirate Fighter (20/50 fuel)                                     
Integrity: 60/60;Armor: 20/20; Missiles(2/2): Handmade Missile Cargo:0/20

       -Cargo Bays (5)
           -Cargo bay Alpha
           Integrity: 100/100; Cargo:1250/1250
           -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

      Other:
          -Medbay [0/10 People; Decent equipment. Supplies:5/10]
 
      -Habitation
           -Common room
           -10 4 people chambers
           -2 20 people chambers
Cargo: (700,4/2050)
368 units of food (1 unit per crewmember per day) [184]
Plenty of low quality scrap metal and damaged armour/hull plating [240]
29 spacesuits (Modified emergency suits, not that durable, nor usefull.) [2.9]
75 units of railgun ammunition [Scrap Based, S] [9.5]
11 Empty rail gun shells [Scrapbased, L] [11]
8 ballista arrows [Scrap based, M] [4]
9 HD slugs [Scrapbased, L] [9]
Advanced tools [20]
2 Crawler drones [10]
3 Hand made missiles(Slow, unguided, Medium payload) [Unreliable] [3]
2 Poltergeist missiles (stealth, fast, self guided, 2 stage missile, no payload)[8]
1 box of medicine [1]
HQ rations (=200 rations. Note: doesn't include water and stuff)[1]
Damaged Original reactor [200]

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) [wounded]
    -Recon
David Chapel
    -Head of personnel
Domas (Aseaheru)
   -EVA

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: -1
Laser weaponry: +2
Plasma weaponry: +4
MQ targetting sensor: +1 (No sensor= -2)
Evasive manoevres: +2 (Requires thrusters)
Cruiser: -2
Frigate: -1
Corvette:0

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)

On fighter energy production. All 3 of your fighters run of a single hydrogen power cell, which can provide a lot of power(0.1) for it's size, but needs to be recharged every so often. They also have a standard 1 power battery for lifesupport and such. Engines require marginal power.

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[Ukrainian Ranger]

Now I am not that happy that we sold the seed and fuel rods, we could help to establish a colony ( Or maybe we sold it to them? ) 

I'd like to have a friendly colony somewhere, serve as their navy sometimes  and be a main trading partner:)

How long will the journey with the colony ship will be?
Structural points didn't change after the turret fix\cargo bay installment, is that intended?
What flak ammo look like?
Are there are any software\hardware on the market that can improve jumping calculation?

[10ebbor10]

2 weeks to a full month. The colony ship will go for a partial escort though.
I knew I forgot something.
A fairly small, rounded canister with a small timer inside. A short while after being fired it automatically explodes into multiple small thermite coated fragments. A whole salvo of it looks suprisingly similair fireworks.
There isn't much, but there's a fairly cheap program that allows you to enter custom jumpparameters into the system, as well as saving jumpcalibrations and modifying them later. No guarantees for safety though. Both require large datacapacity and CPU cycles. (50)

[Ukrainian Ranger]

can we combine this

A colony ship heading for the outer rim is trying to buy some cheap protection. They haven't got much, and their ship is completely undefended, and largely unarmored.

As a partial escort

And this?

The supply ship that normally provides food and other supplies to a number of colonies in the outer rim has never arrived. In order to prevent an impeding food shortage, the Jaltan colonies have decided to travel to the inner systems (or as close as you can get within a reasonable timeframe) in order to oversee the deliverance of supplies themselves. They know need someone to take the supplies back to their colonies.

Or they are going to totally different part of the outer rim?

[10ebbor10]

Slightly different part. The first part of the journey is similair, but you'd have to split up after the first few days.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

One more question: Are missions to the outer rim require any jumping without jump beacons?

[10ebbor10]

One more question: Are missions to the outer rim require any jumping without jump beacons?

They shouldn't require any.

[Aseaheru]

why are we dumping the space suit? as for jobs, i pick the second one (jump drone)

[Ukrainian Ranger]

I don't like long journeys in frontier systems with an almost dead jumpdrive.... But still it's tempting

Let's move towards the plot and go closer to the quarantine zone

My proposal (assuming we take job without further negotiations and fly towards the target)
1) Offer 2000 space (1000 in the shuttle\1000 in the newly installed cargo bay)  for safe looking cargo(safe=no contraband)
2) Talk with our pirates and offer them to either leave the ship here or fully join our crew
3) Make 14 more railgun shell containers (I want to use that containers as containers first, and last ditch ammo second)
4) Buy some water and fill the containers above with it
5) Buy 50 duranim hull plates and 5 Teladine hull plates (mostly for fixing fighters\patching the holes)
6) Buy a mechanical space suit (also, buy 2 regular spacesuits if pirates join our crew)
7) Buy 10 units of simple electronics , 11 units units of MQ resources (For repairs mid-flight) 
Buy 10 more flak ammo and load in the flak gun
9) Spend rest to buy even more food, if we do get locked in quarantine zone it's better to have a nice reserve. Also we may sell it for a really  good price
9) Make fighter railgun shells out from our scrap, enough to load our turret twice. Don't forget to load it and Red Rocket's railguns
10) Spend 1 MQ resource and some scrap to make more railgun arrows (arrowheads from hard MQ resources, rest from scrap)
11) Spend some of the newly bought duranim hull plates\scrap to fix our damaged fighter
12) Run main engine at 0.25 power\0.5 power\0.75 power, note changes in thrust comparing to full power
13) Run life suppport at 0.75\0.5 power level. Note what subsystems shutdown first, (better wear spacesuits\sit in small crafts during the tests)  then try to programm (let's use our MQ computer and computer technician in the crew)  and optimize it in a way that the least important systems shut down first ( We have some unused  living rooms,  keeping right humidity can wait till combat ends, we can tolerate reduced lighting, even oxygen recycling can wait some time, while heat management and radiation shielding are way too important  to shut down ever). Same optimization may help if life support get damaged

2-13 are fine for any other job, but if we take any noncargo job, I'd prefer to sell the shuttle and fix something (second main engine\reactor\jump-capacitor\turret)

why are we dumping the space suit? as for jobs, i pick the second one (jump drone)

Why I am not surprised that he offers the most dangerous, almost suicide mission?

[TopHat]

I agree with all of the above.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

BTW, docs, don't forget to test our new med bay on the wounded

[10ebbor10]

It's not that dangerous. Really. ((Also, pretty much every mission leads to a subplot of some kind))

12) Run main engine at 0.25 power\0.5 power\0.75 power, note changes in thrust comparing to full power
13) Run life suppport at 0.75\0.5 power level. Note what subsystems shutdown first, (better wear spacesuits\sit in small crafts during the tests)  then try to programm (let's use our MQ computer and computer technician in the crew)  and optimize it in a way that the least important systems shut down first ( We have some unused  living rooms,  keeping right humidity can wait till combat ends, we can tolerate reduced lighting, even oxygen recycling can wait some time, while heat management and radiation shielding are way too important  to shut down ever). Same optimization may help if life support get damaged.

I suppose I can answer these already. The engine refuses to function at 0.25 power (not enough power to get the heating systems online), works at 1/4 capacity at 0.5, and 1/2 at 0.75. It uses the same amount of fuel in all 3 situations.

As for the lifesupport, currently it employs an analog system. As the power decreases, energy is reduced towards all systems simultanously. This does mean that quite a lot is getting wasted due to inefficiency. If you want to shut down a subsystem, it would require manually flipping the switch in the life support room As for the different subsystems:
     -Lighting
     -Internal temperature and athmospherical management: (Controls the temperature, airpressure, and suchlike in all rooms)
     -Ventilation (Gets the air cycled through the carbon filters)
     -Carbon filtring (Will continue to absorb carbon for a while when not powered, though it's not a good thing to do repeatedly)
     -Heat management (Keeps the various ship systems cool)

Also, will someone give me a description of what the repaint looked like.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

I'd prefer nice deep green color, nothing fancy. But if someone else have better ideas, I am ready to support that

As for jobs, I still prefer cargo runs. We should use that cargo space...

If we choose any other mission but escorting colony ship or one of the cargo runs, I strongly suggest to sell the shuttle and fix one more reactor

If we choose escorting colony ship, offer them to do it for free (expect food for our crew) , even more offer our cargo hold to bring more supplies.  In exchange they should let us to take two shuttles (2000 cargo) of whatever resources present at colony site