101 uses for a dead scout.

[The Thing]

How about as a base killer?

Load it up with nuclear ordance, then install a black globe unit. launch it at that pesky enemy starbase or whatever is too well defended to take by conventional assault.

Based on my somewhat limited knowledge of traveller, a ship with a BG is essentially invulnerable, and may be impossible to detect at a distance. So it just glided in on a tyrajectory, the timers set off the nukes, the nuke destroy the generator and the black globe is replaced by a very large white globe for a nanosecond or so.

BTW, do black globes make a ship impossible to spot? I imagine they absorb radar, IR, ladar, lidar, etc, and being black they kinda blend in with space. Unless one occludes a star or some other background object I'm not sure they can be detected.

 

[The Thing]

How about as a base killer?

Load it up with nuclear ordance, then install a black globe unit. launch it at that pesky enemy starbase or whatever is too well defended to take by conventional assault.

Based on my somewhat limited knowledge of traveller, a ship with a BG is essentially invulnerable, and may be impossible to detect at a distance. So it just glided in on a tyrajectory, the timers set off the nukes, the nuke destroys the generator and the black globe is replaced by a very large white globe for a nanosecond or so.

BTW, do black globes make a ship impossible to spot? I imagine they absorb radar, IR, ladar, lidar, etc, and being black they kinda blend in with space. Unless one occludes a star or some other background object I'm not sure they can be detected.

 

[far-trader]

I can enlighten you a little then Thing

A Black Globe has a few limitations that would make this impractical.

First they are by and large far too valuable. Supposedly a very limited quantity, more as found Ancient items even less understood than jump drives and jury rigged into ships. A few are perhaps produced experimentally at TL15. Have a look and see how many TL15 Class A starports there are.

Second the smallest size is 10tons iirc so it's a bit a squeeze to shoehorn one into a type S.

Third, as noted you are pretty much invisible excepting for occluding a sensor view of something else. As long as that doesn't happen then the last point is moot but if it does you are toast.

Fourth the biggest vulnerability is that ALL energy hitting the globe is immediately dumped into the ship's capacitors. There are some included with your jump drive of course but you'll probably want more in a type S since the ones you start with won't last long once someone spots you. And again you hit the problem of where to put extra stuff in such a small ship.

Not saying it wouldn't be done, just that there'd have to be an extremely valuable target to make it all worth it. And if you're going to invest that much I don't think you'd start with a clapped out marginally combat worthy type S

 

[mbrinkhues]

Dead Scout:

+ Burry under an evergreen as fertilizer
+ Add some cement overshoes and drop in the next river as fishbait
+ Freeze, fit with fake invasion plans and let the Zhos find him
...

The Typ-S is best used as a down-payment for a more capabel craft, starting with the 100dton J-Cutter

 

[far-trader]

Dead Scout:...

+ Freeze, fit with fake invasion plans and let the Zhos find him
...

Truly a classic, I've liked the idea since I first read the WW2 version years ago.

 

[BetterThanLife]

The Typ-S is best used as a down-payment for a more capabel craft, starting with the 100dton J-Cutter

Except that in this case, unless you have stolen it, you either paid for it or it doesn't belong to you. Instead of paying for it use that as your down payment for a more capable ship. (Does someone really think they can run a Scout ship on a mortgage?)

 

[far-trader]

...(Does someone really think they can run a Scout ship on a mortgage?)

That would depend on how clapped out and old it is. If it still runs well with normal maintenance, and it's say 80 years old (so it only costs you 10% of the new value to buy it) then it might make the payments. IF you could find someone to finance it for 40 years when it might only have 10 or 20 years of serviceable life left

 

[aramis]

Use it as a control "tower" for some local E-Port....

 

[atpollard]

Use it as a control "tower" for some local E-Port....

Do you stand it up so you can get a good view from the window, or drop it nose first into the ground?

 

[atpollard]

Does someone really think they can run a Scout ship on a mortgage?

What about a character with Broker-6 and Pilot-1 using the 'Seeker' version?

 

[Gadrin]

really cool fort ?

 

[far-trader]

Do you stand it up so you can get a good view from the window, or drop it nose first into the ground?

Or stick it on a pole through it's sides like a big arrow pointing "you are here" :rofl:

 

[aramis]

Under MT-CT Hybrid*, I've had spec traders use standard Type-S ships for spec and make enough to pay the mortgage.

*MT for everything except spec trade.

 

[pendragonman]

really cool fort ?

Daddy, daddy, can I have one of those for my tree fort? :rofl:


And the scout-on-a-stick idea, makes for a hard to miss landmark!


Wild Bill's Used Scout lot, selling only the cleanest high mileage scouts for school and work transportation!

Perhaps ripping out the man and J drives and turning it into an interesting restaurant or air-raft/speeder customizing shop?

 

[Icosahedron]

Rip out the aircon system and install it on some rich b*****d's Yacht, for a laugh.

 

[far-trader]

Rip out the aircon system and install it on some rich b*****d's Yacht, for a laugh.

:rofl:

(stupid frackin minimum character posting rule, hah, that should do it)

 

[Nurd_boy]

Nurd, how do you propose breaking them - with the laser or with the nose?
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Heck, how does the video game do it?..(I edited my post)...maybe fusion or plasma instead of lasers? maybe fixed rocket pods? it doesn't need to be long range and the ship doesn't need to land in gravity or atmo...

 

[bozzutoman]

Recycling a dead Scout

1. Find a spot near a rural road. Be sure it has few meters of level area then a slope down away from the road.

2. Dig a 90° wedge out of the slope X meters deep.

3. Back the scout into the cut so the Xm wedge would allow ground level access to the back doors.

4. Strip out the drive section (including walls) and the bridge/avionics. Modify or remove the turret as the local law level and native hostiles dictate.

5. The fuel tanks retain their function. Connect to a set of pumps on the lot.

6. The bridge becomes another room with lots of storage and natural lighting.

7. The combined sections 12-15 become a mini-mart/diner.

"Welcome Central Axis Station."
Last chance for fuel, slurm slurpies, and our famous chirper fried steak.

 

[vegascat]

Mount microcams all over and inside it.
Land it near a TL1 village in the wilds in the middle of the night.
Shut down the drives and disable the jump drive.
Open the hatch and leave on another ship.
Record the festivities of the natives playing with the new toy.
Edit the video for a reality TriD broadcast.
Sitback and rake in the profits.
Repeat when bored.
For real fun, drop it near a tribe about to be attacked by a stronger tribe and add some basic pictograph instruction manuals.

 

[hunter]

You can use them to plug smaller holes in the hull of a ship.

Oh wait, you are talking about scout 'ships'...

Nevermind.