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[_DivideByZero_]

Oh Lord, I hope this ends well...

Finalize the project. Third time's the charm. Also ponder how an error in the navigational code would affect life support.



(if the away team is leaving a log)
"Splendid work gentlemen! I assume we can keep this equipment, yes? It should be great for future work."

[GiglameshDespair]

"Ahh. Now this is a result!"

First, search the rest of the room, lockers, etc, for valuable and useful items and secure storage for them and transfer them back to the ship first. For the less fragile, detach a locker from the wall if possible and loat that back to the homeship, then utilise my assistant goon to tranfer the welding station and maching workbench over.
Carefully.

[adwarf]

Ship Crew

Oh Lord, I hope this ends well...

Finalize the project. Third time's the charm. Also ponder how an error in the navigational code would affect life support.



(if the away team is leaving a log)
"Splendid work gentlemen! I assume we can keep this equipment, yes? It should be great for future work."

You attempt to finish off the logistical coding, but find yourself vexed over how to best handle the integration with unchanged systems that will ensure the fewest bugs to work out in the long run. However, you do spend your spare time figuring out how the previous error could affect life support, and quickly find that the overall changes you have made aren't just to navigational coding, but logistical back end code that was made to process and adjust systems on long journeys. The flaw in question would have caused a feedback loop that would have caused the CO2 scrubbers to shut off thus slowly suffocating the crew.

Away Team

TK takes the pistol too and stows it. If there's anything useful left, he takes the bag back to his ship, gets a fresh one, and loots moar meds. Otherwise, he goes to find his teammates.

You cram all of the medications, and tools you find into your bag before pushing yourself over to the doctor's corpse and grabbing the pistol out of his hand. Once you have the handgun you take the time to check the magazine to find the gun only has eleven rounds left strangely enough before reloading it, and tossing the handgun into the bag before heading back to unload your loot in the ship itself. With your cargo unloaded you take a moment to go back and run through the medbay one more time before heading to help the others at the maintenance room.

"Ahh. Now this is a result!"

First, search the rest of the room, lockers, etc, for valuable and useful items and secure storage for them and transfer them back to the ship first. For the less fragile, detach a locker from the wall if possible and loat that back to the homeship, then utilise my assistant goon to tranfer the welding station and maching workbench over.
Carefully.

You start to scour the room for anything that can be of use only to find the Maintenance Department is rather scarce on actual components with only a few piles of scrap metal, some simple electrical components, and a computer of some sort though how useful it'll be is yet to be seen. With most of the room cleared you fill your duffel bag with the loose parts, and manage to jam the computer into Neil's bag before turning your attention to the two larger stations at the back though thankfully TK arrives just in time to help.

"Show me what's useful TT, and I'll get to lugging it back to the ship..."

Start transporting looted tools etc., under TT's direction.

"How's it going back on the ship there? Nothing in the vicinity I hope?"

The first thing you and TK move to the ship is the welding rig station which proves a fairly easy job thanks to the aid of another person, and the effects of zero-g on negating weight as a factor. Finally the three of you set you sights on moving the bulkier, and much more valuable machining workbench which goes by in a flash as you flawlessly maneuver the workbench into the airlock before dragging it into the cargo bay.

Spoiler: Dio Costanzo (click to show/hide)

Health Points: 15/15
Armor: 0

Credits: 0

Equipment:
Modified 1738 Land Service Pistol [Damage: 10, RoF: 1, Ammo: Loaded, Pistol, Single-shot, Accurate, Modified Relic of a Lost Era]
      - (7) Rounds

Skills:
Programming Basics
Gunnery Savant

Spoiler: Amelia Terinn (click to show/hide)

Health Points: 15/15
Armor: 0

Credits: 143

Equipment:
A well worn copy of Love in the Stars

Skills:
Skilled Pilot
Navigation's Expert

Spoiler: Neil Aurelius (click to show/hide)

Health Points: 15/15
Armor: 3

Credits: 138

Equipment:
Commercial Distribution Model II Spacesuits [5 Hours of Oxygen, 3 Hours of Battery]
Regalian Combat Shotgun [Damage: 12, RoF: 1, Clip Size: 5/5, Shotgun, Two-Handed]
      - (10) Shells
Calmar Law Enforcement Body Armor [Armor Rating: 3]

Skills:
Charismatic
Restless Eyes

Connections:
Harold (Friendly) - You didn't exactly leave your last job on the best of terms, or conditions, but that hasn't undone at least one of the friendships you've managed to make with fellow lawmakers. Harold isn't particularly high up the food chain when it comes to Calmar's law enforcement, but he works Customs in orbit above the planet and has a knack for noticing things others wouldn't. He isn't likely to do anything for free, but if you need help he'd be more than willing to provide it ... for the right price.

Spoiler: Tobias Kavanagh (click to show/hide)

Health Points: 20/20
Armor: 0

Credits: 679 Credits

Equipment:
Commercial Distribution Model II Spacesuits [5 Hours of Oxygen, 3 Hours of Battery]
Radlin Striker Handgun [Damage: 4, RoF: Single Shot() or Burst Fire[3](✔), Clip Size: 12/12, Pistol, Selective Fire]
      - 3 Magazines (12/12)
Dracon Long-Knife [Damage: 4, Attack Speed: 2, One-Handed, Fitting Weapon]

Skills:
Hardy
Close Quarters Combatant

Spoiler: Tobias Trent (click to show/hide)

Health Points: 15/15
Armor: 0

Credits: 84

Implants:
Modified Basic Carrigan Optic Implants

Equipment:
Commercial Distribution Model II Spacesuits [5 Hours of Oxygen, 3 Hours of Battery]
Basic Toolkit

Skills:
Basic Repairman
Starting Inventor

Spoiler: Neal Thompson (click to show/hide)

Health Points: 20/20
Armor: 0

Credits: 751

Equipment:
Radlin Striker Handgun [Damage: 4, RoF: Single Shot() or Burst Fire[3](✔), Clip Size: 12/12, Pistol, Selective Fire]
      - 2 Magazines (12/12)
Long Range Space Transceiver

Skills:
Hardy
Stealthy

Contacts:
Melinda Mayson (Handler) - Melinda is considered your handler, and the go-between for you and the Macnameer Corporation to monitor the 78-Z9I's work efficiency. Her job is mainly to ensure that everything with the ship is fine, and to confirm that you and the crew are handling the jobs as ordered.

Spoiler: Potential Projects (click to show/hide)

Navigational Logistics Improvement (Modification)
Required Coding: 2 out of 3 Successes reached! Coding is harder to understand for anyone who isn't Dio.
Required Mechanical Adjustments: Unknown
Basic Effect: Changes to the ship's navigation systems have allowed it to more efficiently assist in course plotting, and actively handle all low-end logistical needs with expert efficiency. -2 to Flight Complications and +2 to Power Generated.

Additional Armor Plating
Required Work: Intensive Manual Labor, and Welding/Bolting Additional Plates into place.
Basic Effect: +5 Armor Rating to the Ship

Bedroom to Jail Cell Conversion
Required Work: Minor Manual Labor, slight welding work required on the door.
Basic Effect: Turns one of the bedrooms into a simplistic jail cell. The door could hold your average person, but don't depend on it holding a beast, or one of the physically stronger races.

A Gentleman's Minibar Installation
Required Work: Extensive manual labor, complete replacement of furniture and existing canteen elements, purchase of various materials including a Serving Droid. Requires 10,000 credits.
Basic Effect: A Martini please, shaken, not stirred. Improved morale, superior alcohol quality, perhaps a tendency towards drunk piloting.

Spoiler: Salvaged Goods so Far (click to show/hide)

2x Package of Kyros Bandages [6 out of 6 bandages left | Stops bleeding temporarily, and is used by the desperate as emergency patches for spacesuit breaches.]
10x Bottles of Ez-Hl [Each bottle has one use. | Heals 4 Health, stops bleeding | Ez-Hl is a medical spray manufactured by the Viliard Medical Industry.]
Kyros IOR Syringe [Single-use | Heals 8 Health, speeds up recovery of organ damage, bone fractures, etc. | A fairly uncommon product produced by Kyros originally made for field treatment of heavily injured soldiers.]
4x Basic Medical Tool kits [The most basic tools required for performing medical work. Scalpel, stitches, a 'How to Sew a Wound' guide for morons, etc.]

Radlin Striker Handgun [Damage: 4, RoF: Single Shot(✔) or Burst Fire[3](), Clip Size: 11/12, Pistol, Selective Fire]

A Computer []
4 Units of Scrap Metal [Loose pieces of metal used for patching small internal ship damages, and for those creators or mechanics of a poorer class.]
3 Units of Simple Electrical Components [Wires, Capacitors, etc. of the lowest quality fit for simple maintenance and less intensive projects.]

Welding Rig Station [A station with a built in welder that can be removed though at a reduced work time to do external work on ships, drones, and pretty much anything else that might need hull patching. 5 Units Size.]
Machining Workbench [This workbench is a fairly high quality piece of work made to facilitate the creation of some of the finer parts that might be required in doing emergency maintenance, and is also a boon to gadget creators who have a need for a much more precise creation process. 8 Units Size.]

[_DivideByZero_]

"Ah," Dio thinks to himself out loud. Apparently he forgot to turn the radio off, so everyone on his channel can hear him.
"The answer is simple! All that is needed is run the original system in a virtual thread, and set logistic controller to use the virtual system outputs instead!"

One more try. Try to run the ship's systems in a simulation, and see if I can connect the existing systems (that I intend to leave unchanged) to that copy. Then I can do whatever I want to navigation without affecting the unchanged systems.

Bonus points if we can reroute all enemy attempts at electronic warfare into the virtual system copy.

[Tiruin]

"Hey Dio--if we can get your programming work to focus on salvaging, things that take this long won't have to be done manually by a crew. Be careful over there."

Amelia relaxes and winds up refining the plan of the trip back.

((Question, since I read the book for one turn--is my item special something cumulative? As in I can read it for one turn, then no matter how many turns afterwards, I can spend another turn and get the *bonus effect*?))

[Harry Baldman]

((How did I miss that update? Must have not been paying attention.))

Wander about, perhaps sketch out my vision for the minibar on an available writing surface. This is how proper spacers ought to live, you know.

[lawastooshort]

((sorry, missed an update))

”Right, well. That could have gone worse. Anything else to check out before we get the main goods on board? If not I suggest we evacuate, eh?”

Assist any further looting, then/or get back to the ship and cut up the target ready for hard salvage!

[adwarf]

One more try. Try to run the ship's systems in a simulation, and see if I can connect the existing systems (that I intend to leave unchanged) to that copy. Then I can do whatever I want to navigation without affecting the unchanged systems.

Bonus points if we can reroute all enemy attempts at electronic warfare into the virtual system copy.

Amelia's changes have the effects they do entirely because they also adjust the way some of the logistical stuff is handled, you can do this of course, but the end result will remove the power generation bonus and halve the Flight Complication bonus.

((Question, since I read the book for one turn--is my item special something cumulative? As in I can read it for one turn, then no matter how many turns afterwards, I can spend another turn and get the *bonus effect*?))

It has to be two turns back to back when reading the book if you want to obtain the effect.

[GiglameshDespair]

Look around the rest of the hsip for useful items and machinery.
Maybe a gun as well.

[adwarf]

Away Team
TK, Neil, and Tobias quickly run a check of the rest of the rooms at the rear of the ship which could be reached, and find them to be empty bedrooms. After that you head to the bridge only to discover the door opens into a room that is mostly occupied by a hole into space with only a handful of damaged computers to salvage.

Regalian Combat Shotgun [Damage: 12, RoF: 1, Clip Size: 5/5, Shotgun, Two-Handed]
2 Units of Simple Electrical Components
2 Units of Scrap Metal

Will skip the rest of the salvage work as your ship based system tears the wreck apart. Anything you would like to do in the timeskip, within reason, can be done.

Spoiler: Dio Costanzo (click to show/hide)

Health Points: 15/15
Armor: 0

Credits: 0

Equipment:
Modified 1738 Land Service Pistol [Damage: 10, RoF: 1, Ammo: Loaded, Pistol, Single-shot, Accurate, Modified Relic of a Lost Era]
      - (7) Rounds

Skills:
Programming Basics
Gunnery Savant

Spoiler: Amelia Terinn (click to show/hide)

Health Points: 15/15
Armor: 0

Credits: 143

Equipment:
A well worn copy of Love in the Stars

Skills:
Skilled Pilot
Navigation's Expert

Spoiler: Neil Aurelius (click to show/hide)

Health Points: 15/15
Armor: 3

Credits: 138

Equipment:
Commercial Distribution Model II Spacesuits [5 Hours of Oxygen, 3 Hours of Battery]
Regalian Combat Shotgun [Damage: 12, RoF: 1, Clip Size: 5/5, Shotgun, Two-Handed]
      - (10) Shells
Calmar Law Enforcement Body Armor [Armor Rating: 3]

Skills:
Charismatic
Restless Eyes

Connections:
Harold (Friendly) - You didn't exactly leave your last job on the best of terms, or conditions, but that hasn't undone at least one of the friendships you've managed to make with fellow lawmakers. Harold isn't particularly high up the food chain when it comes to Calmar's law enforcement, but he works Customs in orbit above the planet and has a knack for noticing things others wouldn't. He isn't likely to do anything for free, but if you need help he'd be more than willing to provide it ... for the right price.

Spoiler: Tobias Kavanagh (click to show/hide)

Health Points: 20/20
Armor: 0

Credits: 679 Credits

Equipment:
Commercial Distribution Model II Spacesuits [5 Hours of Oxygen, 3 Hours of Battery]
Radlin Striker Handgun [Damage: 4, RoF: Single Shot() or Burst Fire[3](✔), Clip Size: 12/12, Pistol, Selective Fire]
      - 3 Magazines (12/12)
Dracon Long-Knife [Damage: 4, Attack Speed: 2, One-Handed, Fitting Weapon]

Skills:
Hardy
Close Quarters Combatant

Spoiler: Tobias Trent (click to show/hide)

Health Points: 15/15
Armor: 0

Credits: 84

Implants:
Modified Basic Carrigan Optic Implants

Equipment:
Commercial Distribution Model II Spacesuits [5 Hours of Oxygen, 3 Hours of Battery]
Basic Toolkit

Skills:
Basic Repairman
Starting Inventor

Spoiler: Neal Thompson (click to show/hide)

Health Points: 20/20
Armor: 0

Credits: 751

Equipment:
Radlin Striker Handgun [Damage: 4, RoF: Single Shot() or Burst Fire[3](✔), Clip Size: 12/12, Pistol, Selective Fire]
      - 2 Magazines (12/12)
Long Range Space Transceiver

Skills:
Hardy
Stealthy

Contacts:
Melinda Mayson (Handler) - Melinda is considered your handler, and the go-between for you and the Macnameer Corporation to monitor the 78-Z9I's work efficiency. Her job is mainly to ensure that everything with the ship is fine, and to confirm that you and the crew are handling the jobs as ordered.

Spoiler: Potential Projects (click to show/hide)

Navigational Logistics Improvement (Modification)
Required Coding: 2 out of 3 Successes reached! Coding is harder to understand for anyone who isn't Dio.
Required Mechanical Adjustments: Unknown
Basic Effect: Changes to the ship's navigation systems have allowed it to more efficiently assist in course plotting, and actively handle all low-end logistical needs with expert efficiency. -2 to Flight Complications and +2 to Power Generated.

Additional Armor Plating
Required Work: Intensive Manual Labor, and Welding/Bolting Additional Plates into place.
Basic Effect: +5 Armor Rating to the Ship

Bedroom to Jail Cell Conversion
Required Work: Minor Manual Labor, slight welding work required on the door.
Basic Effect: Turns one of the bedrooms into a simplistic jail cell. The door could hold your average person, but don't depend on it holding a beast, or one of the physically stronger races.

A Gentleman's Minibar Installation
Required Work: Extensive manual labor, complete replacement of furniture and existing canteen elements, purchase of various materials including a Serving Droid. Requires 10,000 credits.
Basic Effect: A Martini please, shaken, not stirred. Improved morale, superior alcohol quality, perhaps a tendency towards drunk piloting.

Spoiler: Salvaged Goods so Far (click to show/hide)

2x Package of Kyros Bandages [6 out of 6 bandages left | Stops bleeding temporarily, and is used by the desperate as emergency patches for spacesuit breaches.]
10x Bottles of Ez-Hl [Each bottle has one use. | Heals 4 Health, stops bleeding | Ez-Hl is a medical spray manufactured by the Viliard Medical Industry.]
Kyros IOR Syringe [Single-use | Heals 8 Health, speeds up recovery of organ damage, bone fractures, etc. | A fairly uncommon product produced by Kyros originally made for field treatment of heavily injured soldiers.]
4x Basic Medical Tool kits [The most basic tools required for performing medical work. Scalpel, stitches, a 'How to Sew a Wound' guide for morons, etc.]

Radlin Striker Handgun [Damage: 4, RoF: Single Shot(✔) or Burst Fire[3](), Clip Size: 11/12, Pistol, Selective Fire]
Regalian Combat Shotgun [Damage: 12, RoF: 1, Clip Size: 5/5, Shotgun, Two-Handed]

A Computer []
6 Units of Scrap Metal [Loose pieces of metal used for patching small internal ship damages, and for those creators or mechanics of a poorer class.]
5 Units of Simple Electrical Components [Wires, Capacitors, etc. of the lowest quality fit for simple maintenance and less intensive projects.]

Welding Rig Station [A station with a built in welder that can be removed though at a reduced work time to do external work on ships, drones, and pretty much anything else that might need hull patching. 5 Units Size.]
Machining Workbench [This workbench is a fairly high quality piece of work made to facilitate the creation of some of the finer parts that might be required in doing emergency maintenance, and is also a boon to gadget creators who have a need for a much more precise creation process. 8 Units Size.]

((Those actions I didn't run will be rolled in the timeskip))

[SeriousConcentrate]

TK returns Ameila's handgun to her and keeps the one he found in the medbay of the salvaged ship. Finders keepers. :v

[Tiruin]

TK returns Ameila's handgun to her and keeps the one he found in the medbay of the salvaged ship. Finders keepers. :v

Amelia accepts TK's return with great acceptance! :v She also wishes him very well due to his superior salvaging skills, and verbally gestures her admiration of his findings by a thumbs-up.

And then pilot away back to port! Initiate Timeskip protocol.

[Harry Baldman]

Write a report of the things we have done. Do a precise inventory of the components obtained.

[lawastooshort]

See if we can't help TT with making a brig whilst we're on the way home. Ensure we contact Harold before arrival as agreed, and that we go to the right dock.

[GiglameshDespair]

Busy, busy!

With help accepted, make the brig, a medical cupboard in the corner of the bridge, and begin designing an exoskeleton with attachment points for armour.