Abandoned scout

[far-trader]

Originally posted by DaveChase:
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Sorry been dealing with too many different reality show licenses this month

Dave

That's understandable. So do you have the power to squash them all like the bugs they are

On another note this thread first flirted with my parnoia by looking like a sophontology test by the IISS. A kind of a species intellect and morals test. So vegascat, did we pass?

 

[vegascat]

We shall have to wait until 24 May when the test/survey ends.
The results have been quite interesting so far.

 

[Jame]

I'm not trying to hijack this thread, but the 3 tons of cargo in a scout are 3 displacement tons, right?

 

[PVernon]

Originally posted by Jame:
I'm not trying to hijack this thread, but the 3 tons of cargo in a scout are 3 displacement tons, right?

Right

 

[TKalbfus]

What if the scout was not of human origin?
What if it was 1 million years old?
What if it was TL17 with an antimatter power plant with antimatter left in it and an AI ship's computer and a planetary range "transporter"/teleporter."

 

[Jame]

That reminds me of a story I thought up...

What if this AI took the scout offworld when it realized you were on it?

Also, to continue my other question, what does 3 d-tons equal in s-tons, and how does one convert?

 

[Jame]

If one d-ton is worth 5 s-tons, then the 3 d-tons of this abandoned scout will hold about 15 s-tons of cargo, depending on what the cargo is. Better choose carefully, then!

 

[trader jim]

Hey guys ...whata i do with this old S Scout In my Back Yard...My Wife is upset cause it sitting in here Rose Bushes..looks kinda abandoned...no one around....my puppy just Pissed on it!!!...

 

[TKalbfus]

A d-ton is the voulme taken up by one ton of liquid hydrogen. If most of your volume is taken up by liquid hydrogen tanks, then you can estimate the mass tonnage of your ship to be roughly equal to the d-tonnage of it. One thing, perhaps someone could tell me how much a d-ton of liquid oxygen would weigh? You see I have a list of rockets I'm working on and they all use hydrogen as their propellent and fuel source. The fission rocket is powered by uranium, but its propellent is still hydrogen. The antimatter rocket uses hydrogen and antihydrogen, but I'd like to include a hydrogen/oxygen TL7 rocket to my list so I could simulate something like the Space Shuttle using the ship building rules. If I can get the mass per d-ton of liquid oxygen, I can get the mass of the fully fueled rocket and at 50 tones per rocket unit estimate the performance value of a chemical rocket.

 

[jatay3]

Rescue the crew if they are not dead already. But get as far away from the ship as possible, as soon as possible. Make absoulutly certain you know absoulutly nothing. Certain people would prefer it that way. And you don't want those peoples attention.

 

[aramis]

One thing, perhaps someone could tell me how much a d-ton of liquid oxygen would weigh?

Specific Gravity at boiling point: 1.14
14 cubic meters thus is 15.96 metric tons
13.5 cubic meters is 15.39 metric tons.

 

[Timerover51]

An interesting poll to resurrect. It does look like I chose the majority view.

Find a place to hide the ship until you can take full advantage of it.

 

[Spinward Scout]

It keeps showing up when someone picks something on the Poll.

 

[JimMarn]

That reminds me of a story I thought up...

What if this AI took the scout offworld when it realized you were on it?

Also, to continue my other question, what does 3 d-tons equal in s-tons, and how does one convert?

I used a similar theme to help another AD&D DM close out his campaign.

His group found a metal castle which turns out to be a starship built by lizard people. The crew is dead, but the AI takes the statement 'I think we should take off out of here' by an elf as an order to launch. The AI has orders to kills anyone/thing coming aboard that could possibly have mammalian ancestry. Most of them made it off the ship, with 2 still on it when it got above 50 feet from the planet's surface. A dwarf fighter and an elf cleric.

The ship then went into hyperspace with the two player characters above still arguing about what to do.

 

[Malinor]

My instinct would be to look for the crew in the immediate vicinity. If they went farther afield in an air raft I've no doubt someone would've seen and reported it.

If the crew turns out to be a no-show then I'd board the ship and see if the computer would talk to me and be willing to take my orders. After that, hell yeah, I'd go collect family and friends and go explore! We can learn to fly the ship manually as we go along.

"Take me out into the Black, tell 'em I ain't comin' back..."

 

[Ulsyus]

You'd have to be careful of the crew of any spacecraft that landed, not just a Type S

 

[Enoki]

The obvious first question is "How abandoned are we talking?" What condition is it in? Has it been there awhile? Does it look like it arrived a day or two ago and is in good shape? What kind of world are we talking about here? What do I know of the system?

That kind of drives what I'd do as a response to finding it.

 

[shadowcat20]

Make an honest look for the crew and them claim salvage if they are not found. 10% or whatever is still a good chunk of change.

 

[MUELLERBADENER]

The occupants are obviously higher tech level than our planet, so best to hunt them down and kill them. If the Amerinduans had done the same to Columbus, they would have lasted longer.

 

[Enoki]

Now, if you are asking this in terms of me walking along some road and finding it today (e.g., a "Roswell" so to speak) that would be a different proposition altogether...