Inhabited Generation Ship (The Golconda)

[Kzak]

I'll load up my Cutter with domestic appliances. I imagine they don't have many working toasters and mixmasters left!

 

[Assimilator1]

I'm sure they can fabricate toasters .

Btw, for the record, pulse wave scanner does nothing to it (other than the normal blue 'glow').

Oh & someone asked a while back where this ship could've come from & when, all gen ships came from earth, & somewhen between 2100-2700 , gen ship thread.

 

[Dagwit]

Anyone checked this morning to see if they've added a Rescue Megaship alongside the Golconda? If the trade CG we suspect is coming goes to a Rescue Megaship, that might be a novelty worth taking part in. If it's just to the local station, not so much.

 

[Sylow]

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I'm sorry, but its far too much coincidence that Erin Grey is on the ship......an actress called Erin Gray is Wilma Deering from Buck Rogers from the 25th century...

That, and we were discussing all things lip gloss here not so long ago....

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Is this Erins face? If we go on board is it going to be super retro 80s sci fi?

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You convinced me. Rescue mission it is...

 

[Dagwit]

So after three on a Thursday and no generation-ship-related CG? That's dangerously close to being interesting in itself.

 

[Lightspeed]

Discovery Scanner #8 today so any development with the Generation Ship might detract from that. Maybe we will see another update for Tues?

 

[Dagwit]

Maybe we will see another update for Tues?

Perhaps. Though if any additional asset were added to the game for that - like a Rescue Megaship, for example - wouldn't it have to have been added this morning?

 

[Turd Ferguson]

The game doesn't support mechanics to nuke the thing. So of course, that's what they do.

maybe we can drop a ton of meta alloys around it, give them some escape pods and ring the dinner bell for our flower-shaped friends.

if we’re lucky the plague can jump species and we can solve both problems.

 

[CMDR John Luke Paperbone]

maybe we can drop a ton of meta alloys around it, give them some escape pods and ring the dinner bell for our flower-shaped friends.

if we’re lucky the plague can jump species and we can solve both problems.

So edgy, much cool.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

If the CG were "rescue survivors" vs. "Prevent infected carriers from reaching inhabited locations" would you snuff the germ bags or spread the disease? I'd snuff them.

Id do both and double my CG reward haul.

 

[Lightspeed]

Perhaps. Though if any additional asset were added to the game for that - like a Rescue Megaship, for example - wouldn't it have to have been added this morning?

Give weekend commanders time to check it out and read the logs. Maybe next Thurs would see something. They don't need to rush this, because the previous II has only just finished.

 

[Six6VI]

Well let's hope the story-writers make something of this, rather than fizzling out in the manner of the 'new Thargoid variant' at Palin's old base.

Yeah, what happened to them?
And, where did the other ones go?

 

[Dagwit]

Give weekend commanders time to check it out and read the logs. Maybe next Thurs would see something. They don't need to rush this, because the previous II has only just finished.

That makes sense.

I've just been out having a look at the Golconda this afternoon. Nothing parked near it yet, but as you say next week is perhaps more likely.

 

[Six6VI]

Did it have anything that looked like escape pod bays to do a zombie prisoner survivor transfer?

 

[Six6VI]

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

With so few people in a tightly closed environment for 1000 years, say 50 generations I'd expect more unique colloquialisms and a single, distinct accent. Not people who sound like they're from several different 21st Century cities. The audio adds to the experience, but FDev needs to do some rethinking.

 

[Six6VI]

Spent 1,000 years in a sardine can to hopefully preserve the human race, only to find out that humanity survived and in the interim turned into a bunch of time-travelling psychopaths that shoot anything and everything that moves (and even rocks that don't move). Disappointed must be an understatement.

Wait! How did this zombie escape?

 

[EUS]

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

“Unaware of what year it was, Joe wandered the streets desperate for help. But the English language had deteriorated into a hybrid of hillbilly, valleygirl, inner-city slang and various grunts. Joe was able to understand them, but when he spoke in an ordinary voice he sounded pompous and gy to them.”

 

[Six6VI]

Distress Signal

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Question: If they've been drifting on slow drives, how did they suddenly appear near a planet?

And, if they've been isolated from outside contact, how do they know a current system name?

 

[Six6VI]

Give weekend commanders time to check it out and read the logs. Maybe next Thurs would see something. They don't need to rush this, because the previous II has only just finished.

Galnet lead in to the Scourge narrative went on for a bit [ARX.1/.2 fix] before anything happened...

 

[Dagwit]

Did it have anything that looked like escape pod bays to do a zombie prisoner survivor transfer?

Nothing like that showed up in Contacts.