Cargo bay life support?

bladebss

bladebss
Will this be a thing do you recon?

Or perhaps live stock cargo racks?

So you find a new life form on an airless moon some where, little void shrews or ant lion type creatures. I want to capture and bring back my disscovery. Alive! So not shot with lasers and harvested.

Also i loved moving live stock in the old games, and if you lost power or something broke it all turned to fetalizer
 

777Driver

777Driver
Cargo canisters already have life support. There are plenty of living creatures transported on the rares circuit. Also willing to bet the cargo bays will be pressurized once we can roam around our ships.
 

Eliza

Eliza
Uhm...i think, cargo bays must have some sort of life support...Otherwise how will you get your ( Imperial) Slaves alive from one Port to another?
 

bladebss

bladebss
I always thought they were in cryo. Or that the rares creatures were in special containers.

I mean it would be super cool if we could just herd them up a ramp and have them wandering the cargo bay.. some inflight amusment if space legs becomes a reality lol
 

777Driver

777Driver
bladebss said:
I always thought they were in cryo. Or that the rares creatures were in special containers.

I mean it would be super cool if we could just herd them up a ramp and have them wandering the cargo bay.. some inflight amusment if space legs becomes a reality lol
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I remember playing Elite as a kid, every now and them my ship would get infested with these furry little creatures called trumbles. Can't remember what would cause it to happen though.
 

bladebss

bladebss
You would get a message offering you some for a small fee. Of you accepted it they would take over the ship over time and you had to over heat to killem off or you would not be able to see lol iirc
 
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Demascus

Demascus
bladebss said:
I always thought they were in cryo. Or that the rares creatures were in special containers.

I mean it would be super cool if we could just herd them up a ramp and have them wandering the cargo bay.. some inflight amusment if space legs becomes a reality lol
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Long shot for space legs but there is no gravity on ships. So unless your herd of walking space burgers all have magnetic booties, unlikely.
 

Habu2u

Habu2u
If they wanted those slaves alive, they should have specified that in the mission statement! I always just assumed they were looking for some "Soylent Green" material.........
 

Sapyx

Sapyx
As far as I am aware, cargo holds are not pressurized. Otherwise, you'd lose ship's air whenever a hatch-breaker stole cargo or the cargo hatch failed / got shot out.

Slaves etc are kept in life support pods. That's why one tonne of slaves equates to only one slave; there's only one slave in each canister. The rest of the mass of the canister is a self-contained life support system for that one slave.

As for the OP's statement:

bladebss said:
So you find a new life form on an airless moon some where, little void shrews or ant lion type creatures. I want to capture and bring back my disscovery. Alive! So not shot with lasers and harvested.
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There is a logical inconsistency here. If you "find a life form on an airless moon", it is presumably quite happy living in a vacuum. Human-breathable air would probably kill it. So you'd need to put it into a cargo canister to keep it alive.

And furthermore, in regard to this:

bladebss said:
Also i loved moving live stock in the old games, and if you lost power or something broke it all turned to fetalizer
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That's not quite how it worked. You needed to buy a special module, "cargo bay life support", which took up no space, it only cost you credits. If you forgot to install it on your ship and you left atmosphere carrying live things (slaves, animals, fruit & veg), those things would turn into fertilizer. Or, if you jettisoned those things, they turned into fertilizer. But the old game wasn't complex enough for your cargo bay life support to "break".
 

M00ka

M00ka
Oh yeah I can see the possibilites now, especially when Space Legs drop.

You transport 200 live xeno cattle (yay) then you have to spend 1 hour cleaning the cargo bay of all the umm biowaste (not so yay).
 

Archvillain

Archvillain
Habu2u said:
If they wanted those slaves alive, they should have specified that in the mission statement! I always just assumed they were looking for some "Soylent Green" material.........
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For anyone not familiar with the reference; I don't remember what caused it but in the original game there was some way that a loss of life support could turn a cargo of slaves into a cargo of meat. (As if the slavery wasn't brutal enough!)
Scooping an escape pod out of space would show up in your cargo as a unit of slaves too... Fortunately now it's 2018 and Search And Rescue has recently been added to the gameplay! :D
 
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Tarman

Tarman
Archvillain said:
For anyone not familiar with the reference; I don't remember what caused it but in the original game there was some way that a loss of life support could turn a cargo of slaves into a cargo of meat. (As if the slavery wasn't brutal enough!)
Scooping an escape pod out of space would show up in your cargo as a unit of slaves too... Fortunately now it's 2018 and Search And Rescue has recently been added to the gameplay! :D
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There really should be the flipside of that, and allow people so inclined to sell escape pods to pirates and slavers as well as the finally-supported actually saving them instead of just dumping them outside the toaster for StationSec.

If we have an entire major power that supports slavery then IDK why individual CMDRs shouldn't be allowed. I wouldn't even ever do it, but as part of the Elite world it just makes sense.
 

CMDR IPL Victim

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I believe the optional internal module bays are all tied into life support. That is the only excuse I can find for the larger ships requiring larger life support modules to support one pilot.

Elite II required you to equip life support for your modules, IIRC, or if you did launch with a load of passengers, and ended up with a hold full of bio waste... nasty. >_<;
 

Demascus

Demascus
See now I want to see a heard of cattle ejected out of cargo hatch into space. Then have a few of them smach against the cockpit window.
 

bladebss

bladebss
Basically i want this and i dont care lol
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http://imgur.com/gallery/9dD2LSH
 
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