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[Duke 2.0]

 Harry has no time for this crap! He starts moving away towards a nearby wreckage that looks like it might have survivors. Dunno how he's going to transport them, but this vehicle had better have an airlock!

 Also, on the radio he gives a firm message "Alright all of you, if you won't stop your bickering we are all gonna die! I'm looking for survivors, I suggest you get the place ready."

 Short, but it gets the message across.

[Aqizzar]

For the record, no, the Auger does not have an airlock, just an ordinary glass box like cab.

Now you might be thinking, "Why would there be no airlock on a vehicle with a pressurized cab?"  Because you're supposed to be wearing an environment suit, with a pressurized cabin for the luxury of taking your helmet off and recycling air.  Because of course you never ever be in a situation where you got into the cab without already having a suit on.  Of course.

[qwertyuiopas]

I'll do the very best I can to keep the medical bay together until the suits arrive.

[Duke 2.0]

 I just figured any loading and unloading from the cab would be done from within the vehicle bay with oxygen.

 ...

 Yeaaaahhhhhhh...

[Aqizzar]

I just figured any loading and unloading from the cab would be done from within the vehicle bay with oxygen.

Oh yeah, there was that option too.  Nice job breaking it hero.

[PTTG??]

For the record, no, the Auger does not have an airlock, just an ordinary glass box like cab.

Now you might be thinking, "Why would there be no airlock on a vehicle with a pressurized cab?"  Because you're supposed to be wearing an environment suit, with a pressurized cabin for the luxury of taking your helmet off and recycling air.  Because of course you never ever be in a situation where you got into the cab without already having a suit on.  Of course.

Problem with that: Mars Dust is not Earth Dust; Though I suppose that the controls could be pretty rugged and survive some wear, in general airlocks are not only to keep air in, but dust out.

Updated:

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Not Really. Ok, we have some hydrogen and oxygen- the other big piece is the Co2 scrubbers. Hey- where am I getting light? Is there a window or was it emergency lights? Which leads to my next question; what time is it? Mars Time zone, that is. How much daylight and daywarmth do we have? If it's summer here, then we'll have a nice long day anyway.

I'm going to see what Kashyyk has planned before I commit to any actions. If I don't get back in time, I'll tighten up those leaks and get to the scrubbers. Then we'll be able to have a relatively long-term air supply setup.

UPDATE:

One more suit, really? well, I'm almost disappointed. Well, I still don't know what the situation about the survivors. I grab the suit helmet and try to contact Kashyyk and Geoffrey. And Vernon for that matter, as irritated as I may be with him, he's still an able body and may have discovered something useful. This attempt shouldn't take all the time, so after that, I work on the pipes and scrubbers. By the way, I take a good long look at that suit for landing damage.

[Grek]

Going to keep helping Shideh with packing up the medical supplies. Going to defer to Shideh on what is important for medicine. I figure once the pressure suits are here, we'll be able to make a few trips if we absolutely have to. We'll also need to decide what to do with the two poor doctors that didn't make it. Shideh new them better than Roy, so I'll help with whatever she suggests.

[Sir_Geo]

Harry's shouting did seem to quiet down a lot of the pointless arguing going on, I guess he just has a more commanding voice. If he's not averse to being a radio jockey for a while after things quiet down then maybe I can do something more permanent about this leg. :/
There seems to be several people that can see a smoking chunk of wreckage, maybe we could get a bit more oriented by what direction everyone sees the smoke from.
Once that is done Trippy will try to give his friend a bit more dignity than he currently has, just lying there on the ground, eyes staring off into the distant...wall. Since Trippy can't go outside he'll cover up the body temporarily until he can get help with the burial.

[Frelock]

Vlad will be completing his mission to rescue the medical personnel (or singular person, along with the mountie and hacker).  Perhaps, while I'm there, we can take five minutes to try to put together some sort of wagon or at least have a large, flat sheet of metal we can put stuff on and carry with us.  I should also mention that the hydroponics lab is somewhat low on power.  A medical wing would have to have a back-up generator, wouldn't it?

[Sean Mirrsen]

*Into the radio* "Alright people, I found a vantage point. Trippy here is our ears, so let me be our eyes for a while. I can see a lot of the wreckage from where I'm.. or rather, from where one of my 'bots is standing, and... yeah, we pretty much fell apart. I can see Trip's radio tower and the big rover, but everything else is slowly sinking into dust and I can't make any of it out. And speaking of which, some more news - I hope my eyes deceive me, but it looks like one of those Martian dust storms is approaching - if you don't have cover, you'd probably better find some."

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Sean spends some time on the radio, listening to events people describe and keeping an eye out for the wall of dust and any other noticeable movement. He'd really like to go out and help with something, but the reality is that he won't last more than a minute. He thinks of anything else, even if only to keep the thoughts away from the whole scale of the situation.

It's soon apparent that without a suit, there's very little he can do outside. So he decides to take his mind away from this terrible reality for a moment, and concentrate on the favorite hobby of his. Yeah, construction. He takes one working rover and carefully strips it of every bit of scientific equipment except for radios and cameras. Setting it aside for the moment, he begins a construction of gargantuan proportions, using motors, batteries, and servos from the disassembled machines to create a pair of strong remotely operatable 'arms' for the rover, and uses the extra space from the scientific equipment to set it all into its frame. The arms will run on a few charged batteries instead of the main solar array of the rover, but at least that will allow it to retain mobility as long as it is light. It's hard work, but with there being little else Sean can do, he decides to at least do something constructive.

<ooc> And if our host decides that these actions can be carried out in under 30 minutes, Sean will also test the thing, push it out the airlock, and look at what can be done about the broken solar panel linkage on the solar train outside.

[Pandarsenic]

I try to clear my head with a delicious meal.

[Kashyyk]

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Well, I was thinking about heading over to where I saw the people moving around. I'll ask Geoffrey wether he wants to come along or go back and help Pitor. Seeing as we only have 2 suits between 3 people now.

[deadlycairn]

YES! Air!

Simon opens the door to the outside and takes a look around. If he sees anyone, he'll head towards them. If possible he also tries to get an idea of his surroundings.

[Strife26]

I guess that I'll try to organize the projects that our little group has and come up with a priority list.

[Aqizzar]

PTTG??: You're getting light from florescent floodlights and penlights.  Specifically designed to use as little power as possible - this also means the light isn't too great.  And sure, let's say it's summertime.

Frelock: All the modules have large batteries for back-up power, meant to last a day (or more when deactivated) to put all the blocks together after touchdown.  There was (is?) only the one main generator.

Sean: Having just spent two days diagnosing carburetor trouble, I'm rather... skeptical of what mechanicing work can be done in 30 minutes.  Heroic bonuses of course.  A spot check roll tells me the bots are somewhat modular, so good luck on the rest when I get to it tomorrow.

Kashyyk: According to my notes, there were originally three loose space suits in the Engineering Section.  Vernon took one, Geoffrey has the other, and you came in wearing your own, leaving one more for Pitor.  While shorting the group a suit would be a nice problem-solving exercise, I'm not going to go back on my notes.

Missing Gant, Serg, Squeegy, Nilocy, and the War Minister.  Asheron has been committed to the depths.