Jitterbug

[Dragoner]

For Cepheus Engine

 

[AnotherDilbert]

Cargo?

You have 10 Dt components stuffed into a 10 Dt hull, great, but no space over for cargo?

Cabin Space is presumably something like "Small craft staterooms" in CT, i.e. long term accommodations?

MgT1 HG errata has this addition:

High Guard Errata, p2:
Add the following to Cabin Space;
A small craft may have acceleration couches for short duration passengers (such as for surface-to-orbit voyages). These take up 0.5 tons and cost MCr 0.03 each.

Perhaps those can be used in Cepheus too?

 

[whartung]

Cargo is bungeed to the hooks on the outside of the hull.

 

[AnotherDilbert]

Including the extra passengers?

Life is more exciting in Cepheus, it seems!

 

[Dragoner]

Cargo is bungeed to the hooks on the outside of the hull.

Personally I was looking at Dream Chaser, quite a bit smaller, yet with some similar specs.

 

[Condottiere]

You could tow a baggage sled.

 

[Dragoner]

They got rid of the 'fresher.

 

[Condottiere]

They have a natural vacuum pump.

 

[Grav_Moped]

Cargo is loaded by splitting the hull lengthwise. You can get numbers of things in there, and screen them on the other side. It's very simple.


It's modeled on the Jitterbug^TM flip-phone. (Samsung Jitterbug Dial SPH-A120), isn't it?

 

[Dragoner]

It's modeled on the JitterbugTM flip-phone. (Samsung Jitterbug Dial SPH-A120), isn't it?

Cool! I never knew that existed. Honestly, I learned the word "jitterbug" in Texas oil country, where I grew up. Jitterbuggers were the guys that went out with seismographs and got readings for where the wells were to dig 'em. So I thought for this, small, hops all over the place like the needle on a seismograph, it's a jitterbug.

 

[Grav_Moped]

https://www.phonescoop.com/img/a/p/14226_800.jpg (Folded, which is what I thought it looked like)
https://www.phonescoop.com/img/a/p/14224_800.jpg (Open, which is why I started riffing on flip-phone puns)
Phonescoop.com, from reporting on CITA 2006.

Didn't know the oilfield reference, myself. Learn something new every day!

 

[kilemall]

Jitterbug was also a dance style.

Jitterbug - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[coliver988]

Jitterbug was also a dance style.

Jitterbug - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

and a song by Wham

 

[Dragoner]

and a song by Wham

I would have never known that.

 

[Condottiere]

Neoclassic; I think post Second British Invasion.

Or is it Britpop?

Drat, my lack of a classical music education.

 

[Condottiere]

It could also be the last era where pop music was diverse, distinctive and different.