Inhabited Generation Ship (The Golconda)

[Thrender Grone]

Doesn't matter. Their desire to stay on a ship with no hope or expansion and a place they've admitted they can't sterilize with their tech is a form of madness. Like it or not, they are getting off that ship. Forcing their kids to live their lives in a ship, never basking in a warm day on a real planet, never going where they want with ease, is utter madness. Plus like I said, sell the ship, it's theirs after all, turn it into tourism or a museum piece and give them a ship of equal size these days but with FSD tech/modern medicine/fresh supplies, they can go and drift however long they want and then come back, or head into the void out of the galaxy.

Ever hear of "cultural relativism"?

 

[Thepirateorc]

I shall pirate this wreck with comrade hatchbreaker

 

[Speedcuffs]

Fair enough. My point is that regardless of where the trade CG asks players to deliver goods, it isn't far-fetched to think that these goods may possibly be tainted or poisoned in some way, since that's exactly how the blight started in the first place, the galaxy wide availability and distribution of RX7 fertilizer.

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Upaniklis has been deemed in need of Agronomic Treatment supplies (according to Galnet).
Seems a bit of a leap to think that the new 'cure' for the blight is also tainted.

 

[Thrender Grone]

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Upaniklis has been deemed in need of Agronomic Treatment supplies (according to Galnet).
Seems a bit of a leap to think that the new 'cure' for the blight is also tainted.

I'm not really referring to the delivery of the Agronomic Treatment to relieve the blight in the system or suggesting that said antidote is tainted in some way.

I'm talking about future deliveries of "supplies" to this generation ship, and can we trust Rockforth to clean up their admittedly shady security and stop playing fast and loose with regulatory laws? Can we trust them to deliver goods to this ship free of any taint whatsoever (since they've been asked for assistance, after all, that's how we found the gen ship in the first place) considering their recent history?

 

[RadioAC]

I think I remember Dr Who had an episode where people thought they were on a ship but it was actually a fake in a building on earth. I think The Master had conned them into it for some reason.

There was a reality tv programme on Channel 4 called Space Cadets with the same theme. They put three people "in space" and waited to see how they took to twig that something was up.

 

[Noobilite]

I think in 1000 years, the language would have evolved.

Also, they wouldn't have accents because of their coexistance naturally on the ship...

I wonder how language changes in a completely, "sterile," environment over long periods of time. Without new external things would it change that much?

 

[Deleted member 192138]

Ever hear of "cultural relativism"?

• Log about wanting to defend and protect the cultural identity that has grown on the gen ship over the last millennium and being averse to contact with outsiders based on human history of maltreatment of indigenous peoples that are often seen as backwards or primitive.
• Forum comment about how these people should be brought dragging and screaming into our social norms because wanting anything else is a form of madness.

My irony alarms going off now are louder than the sirens you hear when you get close to the gen ship.

 

[Speedcuffs]

• Log about wanting to defend and protect the cultural identity that has grown on the gen ship over the last millennium and being averse to contact with outsiders based on human history of maltreatment of indigenous peoples that are often seen as backwards or primitive.
• Forum comment about how these people should be brought dragging and screaming into our social norms because wanting anything else is a form of madness.

My irony alarms going off now are louder than the sirens you hear when you get close to the gen ship.

Sentinelese - Wikipedia

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[Deleted member 192138]

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Upaniklis has been deemed in need of Agronomic Treatment supplies (according to Galnet).
Seems a bit of a leap to think that the new 'cure' for the blight is also tainted.

Is that what Galnet says? The article says there's a "call for supplies which must be investigated" - the ships logs are a call for supplies. Galnet doesn't specify that Upaniklis is asking for argronomic treatments.

 

[Speedcuffs]

Is that what Galnet says? The article says there's a "call for supplies which must be investigated" - the ships logs are a call for supplies. Galnet doesn't specify that Upaniklis is asking for argronomic treatments.

They'll get Agronomic Treatment and like it.

 

[VR SenseiMatty]

I shall pirate this wreck with comrade hatchbreaker

Already tried.. Limpets do not interact with the ship

 

[Speedcuffs]

Already tried.. Limpets do not interact with the ship

Interactive escape hatches to 'magically' appear soon ( I hope).

 

[Stealthie]

I shall pirate this wreck with comrade hatchbreaker

Already tried.. Limpets do not interact with the ship

Geez, is it any surprise that they don't want anything to do with the rest of humanity?

I went in one of my naughty Kraits, tooled-up with recon, hatchbreaker and collector limpets, all to no avail.

 

[Klarg]

It sounds to me as if those people are prisoners. Not allowed to know about the outside, not allowed contact with the outside. Listen to the Security guy, he is disturbing. I don't like the pastor either. The people on the Golconda should be allowed to chose their own destiny.

 

[VR SenseiMatty]

Geez, is it any surprise that they don't want anything to do with the rest of humanity?

I went in one of my naughty Kraits, tooled-up with recon, hatchbreaker and collector limpets, all to no avail.

Yeah that's what I said. There's no way to interact with them. I tried all

 

[Brrokk]

There was a reality tv programme on Channel 4 called Space Cadets with the same theme. They put three people "in space" and waited to see how they took to twig that something was up.

Heh, it took ages didn't it? I remember an episode where there were all kinds of excuses why the "blast shield" couldn't be opened to let them see the view of outer space; the real reason was that a moth was loose in the hangar and it might have given things away by flying in front of the projector.

 

[EUS]

I keep reading Inebriated Generation Ship, and keep getting disappointed after my double take.

 

[Lightspeed]

I tried attracting their attention at the windows, but they all ran away terrified ! Could it be the ship?

 

[Raino]

obviously

 

[Teall]

How did realize this ship is still inhabited? I didn't get it from the logs. This might be recorded 100 years ago. Also I do not like the captain's narrative. It sounds not like a captain, but like a kid. "Please, would you like to listen, do not know where to start my speech, excuse me, well, here we go". Is this said by CAPTAIN? Barely believed.