Rooster Cogburn
SOC-9
Left-handed wrench
Liquid squelch
Box of grid squares
Liquid squelch
Box of grid squares
Unobtanium in Traveller
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bookwyrm67
SOC-7
how about diet water? i was told a story about a new hire at a restaurant who was asked to get some, and they couldn't find any. :devil::smirk::nonono:
GamingGlen
SOC-9
Wait... aren't those used as terrain pieces for RPGs?
Technically, I made some of those. Our Pathfinder group rides horses, but we didn't have any horse miniatures to go with our character miniatures. So I came up with the idea of making 2"x2" cardboard pieces with a 1" grid pattern overlaying a picture, several pictures gotten off the internet, of a horse. It works great as, when riding, you place the character miniature upon the cardboard.
I've seen other products with a wagon pulled by a horse, with much better artwork, and of course it costs money instead of just the little ink and time I spent, but none of just horses.
Anyway, back to your regularly lists of fictional equipment for the rookies to chase down...
Rooster Cogburn
SOC-9
I used these or had these all used on me while I was in the US Cavalry. The only one that worked on me was the liquid squelch because I didn't know what squelch was.
The left-handed wrench got a snot-nosed recruit some facetime with the ground after I sent him down to the mechanics bay and he decided to interrupt the XO's meeting with the mechanics.
Re-reading those, plus MT Alien vol 1, Vilani and Vargr, p.5:
Metaconductors are used in artificial gravity devices, nuclear dampers, starship thrusters, advamced weapon systems, and of course, jump drives. Metaconductor technology is a cornerstone technology for an intersyellar society.
One word: "metaconductors."
That word is in plural form, like "anagathics". As in "more than one kind". Natural, manufactured, different sources...
Proneutron
SOC-13
You can get it at Amazon. People use them in emergency kits. https://www.amazon.com/Witty-Dehydrated-Essential-Hilarious-Practical/dp/B072L38SGT
Unit legend tells of an Airman directed to the base clinic to pick up 9" of Fallopian Tube.
The Squadron Commander was there at the time for followup after a hysterectomy. She was not amused.
On a lighter note, "six feet of Flight Line". It helped that the Airman in question had friends in CE Horizontal Construction, who provided runway repair mat panels.
The Squadron Commander was there at the time for followup after a hysterectomy. She was not amused.
On a lighter note, "six feet of Flight Line". It helped that the Airman in question had friends in CE Horizontal Construction, who provided runway repair mat panels.
You can get it at Amazon. People use them in emergency kits. . . .
We had (have?) a gallon, never used. I believe it's cheaper in large lots.
BlackBat242
SOC-14 1K
A friend of mine was sent for exactly that (USN, 1978... they didn't know he was a retread former Marine avionics tech) - he went to medical, had them cut used surgical tubing into the proper lengths (x25), and had a proper supply label (with NSN, etc) made up for a box of the right size.
He also had them make up a requisition form to properly bill his work center's supply budget for them!
His CPO thought his solution was hilarious - the PO2 that had tried to prank him... not so much.
