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Three important implants stand out to me as uniquely irreplaceable effects. Likewise these are the ones that are the hardest for a new colony to implement. Enhanced Cognition Neural-Vehicular Interlink Reduced Nutritionary Requirements Everything else can be done with outside gear to some extent. Seriously half are just partially replacing a decent enviro suit. K 5 16 17 Q Not Alex fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Aug 24, 2016 |
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Yea, we definitely smell a rat. ACF Have the engineer checkout the "properly functioning" cyro terminal for tampering. It's possible someone got tripped up by hardwired bridge security or something. Do the cryopods have view ports? Can we spend a couple days doing an in-person head check? See if there are empty pods? Does the ship computer register which of the motion sensitive lights are on and when? Do the pods that are "flickering" exclusively contain people with cognitive implants or is there some other linking factor? The prior one would be very bad. On that note can we set up a log of the errors? Could the mag seal anomaly on the reactor be a result of power being rerouted elsewhere on the ship? Arrange for additional security for our cryochamber before we go back under. Underline that last task several times on our to-do list.
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Aug 25, 2016 17:08
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Nettle Soup posted:What do we know about the wardens? The "We, I mean uh, I!" thing and the fact 3 of them didn't notice us is slightly worrying. Four years deeply interfaced with a computer and no one but three other people socially profiled to not mind 22 years of extreme isolation. Frankly I would just stay calm, speak quietly and not make any sudden movements around them. They're not gonna be people persons. We basically have to trust them because they may as well be aliens in terms of how easy it would be to replace them. They are uber goons. What we've seen of Bedia so far is actually quite encouraging. She remains empathetic, enjoys exercise, and can carry on reasoned conversation outside of the machine interface.
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Aug 25, 2016 20:57
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Diogines posted:Whatever psychological profile was picked for the Warders, this is totally intolerable. They have poo poo judgment. I'd bet you she was lackadaisical about it cause it's not her subsection. She seems in charge of cryo and crew stuff. I suspect the reactor sperglord would have talked our ear off about how he modeled the mag vortex patterns and monitored it to hell and back. On that note, get a face to face report from each of them. Gently.
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Aug 26, 2016 00:46
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Loel posted:A/C, and make some small talk. Character development! Yep
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Aug 26, 2016 14:17
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Butt Discussin posted:So you think the genius robot guy's "problem" could be that humans were too lazy to invest hard in colonization, so to prevent our extinction we needed a robot "push" out of the nest? I've been running under that assumption. All my paranoia has been directed at our fellow humans and the possibility of one of them wanted to set up their own personal slave colony or something.
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Sep 1, 2016 16:05
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FaustianQ posted:Originally sounded like there was moving parts, sorry about that. Maybe http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Laser_Heat_Sink? It's always disco'o'clock on the Absolution 
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Sep 2, 2016 22:53
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FaustianQ posted:Tubal may be relived at the idea of no methane or ammonia, but I'm personally concerned about a cyanogen heavy (relative) atmosphere now. There has to be more wrong with the planet we're going to besides potentially higher UV exposure. Well if the lack of significant atmospheric hydrogen readings is any indication, it's bone-dry. That's a pretty huge hurdle.
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Sep 14, 2016 06:56
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It's CYOAs all the way down.
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Sep 15, 2016 04:24
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Alright, space zombies subplot discovered and neutralized. Thanks science.
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Oct 3, 2016 02:43
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Yea I agree. We're planning to orbit a bit before disembarking anyway. All of these will be checked. Two of them benefit from the extra time; climate data and stellar neighborhood information. Let's get cataloging now while it's easy. E
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Oct 16, 2016 19:41
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What about another chthonian planet possibly careening in from outsystem that was captured by the sun and now orbits very quickly just within the sun's surface? Just a giant blob of molten metal whizzing through plasma. That'd be a hell of a thing. I'm not sure what all the repercussions would be, but I figure there'd at least be a hell of a discharge every so often.
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Oct 20, 2016 15:59
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Midgard 1. BC A touch mutually exclusive I know. 2. H Some questions: What are the tolerances for the space elevator? Is a quake going to be disastrous? And how much of the surface is ice? If it's as much as it looks, we lucked out.
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Oct 30, 2016 14:11
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Some justification for Midgard: It's the middle planet. Niefelheim is the dark giant behind us and Muspell is the scorching cthonic by the sun(home of the fire giant Sutr). The radioactive death world is Hel, land of the dead and the giant with many moons is Jotunheim or Asgard depending on how we feel about colonizing said moons. Leaving the star of course as Yggdrasil.
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Oct 31, 2016 02:26
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the_steve posted:Why not set ourselves up as God? "His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god."
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Oct 31, 2016 03:11
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Olothreutes posted:"I'd say name it Omaissen, after Otto." You know that Otto's full name was Otto Jermaissen. Cedric wants to name the planet in honor of his friend, who died on the way here. Sold. Changing my vote from Midgard to Omaissen
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Nov 1, 2016 06:53
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Olothreutes posted:
My favorite is that we just asked someone's opinion and they gave a heart-felt tribute to their dead friend. We go silent for a long moment then perk up "Nah, I'm gonna call it Hoo Boy."
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Nov 4, 2016 02:01
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Hoo boy?
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Just in case it wasn't clear I'm also  ing Hooboy
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Nov 4, 2016 03:06
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Outrail posted:Yeah, her outrage will fuel our first schism. Toss her into the reactor and it'll fuel the colony instead.
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Nov 4, 2016 17:04
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Outrail posted:Right, so -40C weather and the floor is Lava. Man, we're gonna end up so good at thermal energy manipulation if we settle here. And the amount of power available? Temperature differentials like that are super useful for all sorts of wacky power plants.
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Nov 18, 2016 06:44
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Agreed on B and C probes. I don't know much about orbital mechanics but equatorial locations provide a bit of a boost when moving things into orbit. Even with a space elevator, the relative speed of the top station would make it easier for ships to move into stable orbits from it.
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Nov 23, 2016 17:25
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Outrail posted:I just wanna throw relativistic rocks at Planet X. Just a friendly knock on the door to let the neighbors know we're new in town?
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Nov 24, 2016 06:53
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Ralith posted:Or just build literal igloos. I feel like stellar radiation isn't going to be a big issue, at least until we start messing about with the climate--people will be spending most of their time indoors anyway. Yea, I agree. Anything getting through a couple feet of ice is getting through most things, regardless.
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Dec 2, 2016 02:56
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I'm sure if there are any ferrous asteroids or metal deposits on the planet we can get tons of powered shielding up. Remember the place is super conducive to geothermal power. Juice to spare. So large emplaced "ship" shields seem viable. Multiple redundancies as well.
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Dec 27, 2016 18:41
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Y'all are awfully put off by a bit of hard rads. Digging deep isn't the answer because muons. So the answer has to be shielding technology. If we're building future tech shields there's no reason we can't live on the surface. Heavy industry needs energy, room and raw materials. The planet offers all that much more freely than being interstellar drifters. Now, I'm fine with drifters as a longer term goal, but let's at least settle in and tool up right.
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Dec 28, 2016 15:52
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Guys, muons travel through quite a lot of dirt. Like kilometers of rock. Burrowing does nothing. Shields are the only answer, so you may as well have a sky and some windows.
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Dec 29, 2016 23:53
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Why are we messing with large scale planet scaping when we have a delightful suite of genetic and cybernetic augmentation? Change the people. Hooboy is cold, irradiated, and lacking oxygen. Space is cold, irradiated, and lacking oxygen. Traits that could help us here could help us be deep space drifters in the future.
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Plan McSpanky
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