((We should have the following, I feel.
5 Solaire Photovoltaic Cell Arrays
No sunlight was expected--you're in an asteroid!
Well, yeah, but couldn't we set up a line to the outside? Less atmosphere to interfere with light reaching, after all.
...Why would the cells be brought into the asteroid, then?
Shush. I thought there would be at least some outer areas, particularly since this asteroid is either completely sealed in and internally heated, or about the size of pluto.
...Why do you say that?
The fact that it has atmosphere, and the part where the oxygen isn't liquid. The atmosphere is quite thin, admittedly, but to have one even that large, it'd be a fuckin' huge asteroid or sealed.
Sealed.
2 Condenser Units
1 Heavy Duty Air Compressors
2 Portable Air Compressers
I'd imagined basic life-support built into your suits, but you can't live in them, now can you? Of course, it'll take more than air compression to get a breatheable atmosphere...but the Cart will have something of the sort when the next update rolls along.
Well of course it can't, but compressed air is useful for more than just breathing.
Were you thinking of things like the dart guns or am I missing stuff again?
I was thinking that with a highly combustible atmosphere, pneumatic devices are very important. That, and also this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_air ; It's very widely used.
How combustible can it be if it has about 40% as much oxygen as Earth?
Uhm. You realize earth has around 20% oxygen, right? The asteroid has 15%. That, plus the high hydrogen content, make for very flammable air. Explosively so.
You missed the low air pressure. Actually, that's just over 40% of Earth's, so closer to 30% if my calculations aren't off.
3 GIT Industrial Vacuum and Multi-Terrain Construction Robots(v.20.16) (Red, Blue, Green) (Power: 45/45 Hours)
Construction? With what, and why on a temporary scout mission?
What is it you're imagining building?
A base of operations. I had imagined from the sound of it, that they might be needed to set up a port and do heavy lifting and the like for us, so we can get more supplies. I didn't realize we were a temp scout mission...If that's the case, why the 'Port?
So you can get back? And so more personnel can get down if needed. And so it's easier to send more missions down, although more Cargo Carts and such will still require the more expensive and difficult teleports.
In that case, we should still have at least one to help set up the 'Port.
Ther're not that complex; it's pretty small, and partly self-assembling.
Okay. But still. One, for heavy lifting and possible construction needs.
You'll get something.
2 Portable Food Reclamators(Processes foreign matter or grown food into easily edible and nutritious bars; Waste matter is disposed of.)
There's already something like this.
But it's not portable, now is it?
It isn't easily portable, but I can't think of any way to do it that would be.
The wonders of miniaturization.
How would you even "assemble" food?
Microbots. Or something. Biological sieve, maybe. There's ansibles, it shouldn't be that hard to make a food processor.
Something that makes waste products directly into food would probably be pretty difficult, especially if using some sort of algae or fungus or something as an intermediate step was easier.
Some more questions then. As for kinetic, is it gunpowder/solid propellant, gyrojets/micro-rockets, ElectroThermal Chemical(ETC)(they work like a car engine, but shootier), or electromagnetic?
Are there particle beams? They sound incredibly advanced, but they're basically lasers that work through rain and dust. But not in space. Usually. A little bit more advanced than lasers, certainly, but if there's plasma weaponry at all...
Are tactical nukes in common use for 'explosive'?
For transport, what about faster, smaller, quieter(just sound-wise) helicopters? Not common maybe, but like a sports car, perhaps.
Are there launch rails being used?
Are zeppelins or other types of airships being used?(they aren't impractical, trust me. For some things)
How many countries are there, as an estimate? Just a few super-powers? Most moderate sized? Lots of fractious groups?
How big of a role do corporations play?
What's the typical method of government?
What's our government's method of government?
What's our country's name?
What's the general standard of living?
How are power supplies, in general? Very efficient, still a shortage, a bigger shortage?
Where the hell are we in the Solar System?
Gunpowder and the like is still cheapest and therefore most common most of the time, but electromagnetic and gyrojet are preferred in some cases by those who can afford it.
Probably.
No, that's against various old laws. Besides, you'd likely need pretty small nukes and/or long ranges to avoid being in the blast radius.
Some, yes; not necessarily rotorcraft, but craft with that kind of capability exist.
You mean, like the "catapults" in
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress? Hm...not often, but when there's large and common off-planet shipments that can't take the Space Elevator and that can be handled roughly, sure. Obviously, more in use in the far north and Australia (southern South America and Africa lacking the resources and large mountains which would make such things economical).
Not much.
There are a few superpowers like the EU, US, New China, The Empire of the Rising Sun, etc, as well as a number of weaker nations, and of course the Hegemony which rules over them all.
They lack extraterritoriality and direct political influnece like in Shadowrun, if that's what you mean, but the free market and under-the-table dealings gives them power nonetheless. However, while the power of the greatest corporations has increased (although they're still well below the level of superpowers), so has the number, and they get along about as well as spiders.
Most nations, especially major ones, have some form of republic. They vary from the United States (more or less the same as today) to the European Union (which has a single High Minister, re-elected annually, and an adviser from each member nation) and New China (which has a number of elected Chairmen, who have a lifelong term).
The Hegemony's government is primarily composed of the World Senate, which is similar to the US Congress in structure and slightly more powerful than a parliament, and a Hegemon, who is similar to a Prime Minister, President, or a weak King. The Hegemon is elected by the Senate but cannot be a member (although a member of the Senate resigning from his seat and "coincidentally" being elected Hegemon shortly thereafter isn't unheard of or even looked down on), with re-elections occurring each decade, while the Senate itself is mainly supposed to draft laws to support the Hegemon's policies, and Senators are re-elected every four years. Senators are based in part on population and in part on existing as a nation, with one Senator for every dozen million citizens plus two per nation. The Hegemony has nominal control and minimal successfully exerted power over the colonies; a semi-formal Solar Council convenes about once each Terran year to coordinate the Hegemony and colonies so all have their say.
You are agents of the Hegemony.
Depends on world, nation, and of course social class. It's a bit like modern times, but with less abject poverty, a few more comforts, and more advanced medicine and such.
Energy and food are always in a shortage; whenever energy or food production increases, the energy consumption or population grows to accommodate it. That said, this Malthusian cycle has been slowed a bit by worldwide cooperation, so it's less of a problem than it once was.
Who, you personally? An asteroid.
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