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[Spiderking50]

Helga, how long can we survive on the CO2 recyclers if we turn off the life support system? And could we escape the asteroid field in that time?

((You guys are way too afraid of the unknown, planning far too much. I might start throwing spanners are trepidation! ))

I'm not going to even attempt to start calculating hours and minutes on this sort of thing. Keep in mind that you've got this huge ship full of breathable air. You're not going to die from having life support turned off for a few hours. As for escaping the asteroid field, you can always just stop, refill on air, keep moving again.

That is a fine answer. Thats basically what I wanted to know in the first place. Turn off life support and bring the shields and weapons online. XO Commander has full access to anything he needs. Navigators have any permissions they need to get us out of this situation. Gun clearance granted to anyone with training. Railguns, up to XO obviously.

[Azkanan]

Spoiler: apologies (click to show/hide)

Sorry for being snappy. Still sick as a dog. I'm too hot and too cold and my face is dripping all over the place, off work today from having the Lergy, throats killing me and no sleep. ANYWAY, ONWARDS TO THE GREAT BLACK!

((Okay so, before we move onto the next episode; railguns are manned, shields and weapons are powered, and where are you heading? And are you picking up any ice along the way?))

[Spiderking50]

(That's mostly up to the navigators, but I'd like to head for the nearest planet that can support Earthlike life. If there is one within scannable range. With the water system on, don't we have plenty of water? I thought the problem was that the system was off.)

[Azkanan]

(That's mostly up to the navigators, but I'd like to head for the nearest planet that can support Earthlike life. If there is one within scannable range. With the water system on, don't we have plenty of water? I thought the problem was that the system was off.)

((Nay, on the spreadsheet there's like, only a few gallons of water aboard)).

[Spiderking50]

(Hmmm, we will stop to get ice from asteroids once mostly away from the space beasts. Or when we absolutely need it. Any planets or anything of interest on the scanner?)

[Rolepgeek]

((There is no ice reachable that isn't by those creatures. We absolutely need it quite soon. Water is very important. If we use our last box of materials to fix the Cargo Room and power the water system, then we can stretch it out a little, but we're also going to need fuel, which I'm guessing we process from materials. Of which the easiest and nearest source are asteroids.))

[Azkanan]

((Moving discussion to OOC Chat))

[StrawBarrel]

Hmmm...that's a lot of chatter going on communications.

Muslim leaves the Infirmary and enters the Bridge to see there alien filled predicament first hand.

"Captain, why don't take course to that source of water that Helga mentioned was 90 Kegars or so away?"

((OOC: I know I'm talking IC to OOC, but whatever.))

[Twinwolf]

Get us out of here, avoid the lifeforms wherever possible.

[Spiderking50]

Get us out of here, avoid the lifeforms wherever possible.

(+1) Find an icy asteroid where we wont be bothered too much. Plot a course for that. Once we fill up our water reserves, we will get out of this asteroid field toward safer space.

[Twinwolf]

Follow captain's orders.

[Azkanan]

Episode 3: The Kentucky Ice Mining Operation

Event

The Deimos's thrusters spark and choke into action after many, many years of inactivity and pulls away at a slow pace. The navigator Catherine Goodman takes it as a slow pace to get back into the swing of things, dodging asteroids, rocks and aliens alike. One swings close overhead of the forewindow, where you can see it is wrapped in a ball like an old Earth fossil.

Due to the shields being online, anything smaller than a sizable asteroid bounced away with a beautiful ripple of aqua-coloured shielding, which faded back into the invisible shield surrounding them - including the alien floaters. Nethertheless, the Railguns were manned, just in case.

The Captain leaves her to it to check on the crew and returns a while later to find the blue-white trail behind a similarly blue-white asteroid hurtling amongst the other rocky formations.

Pulling alongside it and setting the ship into the same rotating speed, giving control to HELGA to make micro-adjustments, the Captain gives the crew the nod - who's going out?

Engineer Ashton Garrett reports that the storage tanks could take a thousand gallons of water, which could take a while to mine by-hand - not to mention that fuel is in constant use right now to keep up with the ice asteroid, and we run the risk of having a collision and needing to make a quick escape - leaving the possibility of stranded miners on the asteroid. Long story short, the longer we mine, the more water we get, but the higher the risks of things going very wrong, and more fuel being used.

Tony Laev's situation has stabilized and now he's able to move around the ship, albeit very, very carefully.

Choose wisely.

((Please also remember you've got a bunch of crewmembers unable to play as they're in quarantine. Loose them when you feel they're safe to do so, or at least, interact with them somehow)).

((Spreadsheet OP updated))

[~Neri]

Figure out what the white shit the alien spewed out when injured is, what it does, predicted reactions to if it ended up in a human, and nutrient value. Also figure out nutrient value of the alien. Digestible doesn't mean much. Rocks are digestible.

Also if time, attempt to locate seeds or some way to produce seeds. We need hydroponics.

[Rolepgeek]

((Capable of passing through a digestive system, and capable of being digested, are different things ))

"I can head out to mine it, Captain," Ashton says, face to face with the man for once. "If one of the gun-runners could help, that'd be real helpful. I would suggest we get four hundred gallons or so, and we all take real short showers."

[tntey]

I can help!