Out of Fuel? - Explorer Rescue Service, The Fuel Rats

iain666

iain666
Alex Brentnall said:
I can imagine now at some point someone will recognise it on the street and be like "You guys saved my ship, you are awesome..." Well we can dream right? I will certainly stop and talk to anyone I see with one :)
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It'll happen.

I saw Slayer play Reign In Blood straight through at the Astoria back in 2004 and a couple of days later I was walking through town (the town where I live, 70 miles from the town where the gig happened) in a Slayer shirt and some random person who would have had to try really hard to look less like a Slayer fan stopped me and asked, with the same glint in their eye that I probably still had, "Were you there on Tuesday?".

Someone with a RatCap will have a similar experience sooner rather than later I reckon.
 

Surly_Badger

Surly_Badger
The Website Needs Art

The front page scroll images are just some stuff I picked off my (gigantic) screenie collection. We should change them up periodically. We should have ... I dunno... Pictures of rescues or Fuel Rats doing other ridiculously dangerous things like refuelling black holes what whatnot.

Suggestions:
- Images should not be super bright in the center or top; think about text contrast and the top menu
- If you want to add explanatory text please keep it smallish yet readable, Arial font, lower left of the picture (e.g.: "Fuel Rats rescuing T-9 stuck in mail slot. Taken just before massive explosion")
- If you have suggestions for slogans on the front pages, hit me with 'em.
- Data-rich maps like some of Alec's beauties would also be good

Send 'em to badger@ranum.com.

I reserve the right to not post everything. I'm hardly an aesthetic maven but we have to uphold some semblance of standards. How (CMDR NAME DELETED) managed to get chocolate fingerprints on a JPEG is completely beyond me. I'll rotate images in and out every so often. Strut your stuff!

Edit: The hosting package I got us includes huge amounts of space. We are not even close to having to worry about it. If you would like to post images or comments or videos of you brewing Insty-Bruu with a black hole's radiation (reprogramming Limpet Drone; limpet drone error; reprogramming Limpet Drone) by all means, the site is a great place to dump your bits. Metaphorically. Email me and tell me you want a posting account and if you check out I'll do the first half of account set up and you're on your way.
 
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TartanDragon

TartanDragon
Surly_Badger said:
Suggestions:

- If you have suggestions for slogans on the front pages, hit me with 'em.
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On this subject I find myself saying to clients after being thanked by them. "You're welcome, It's what we do!

I am not the first to use it so am in no way taking credit.

:D
 
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mossfoot

mossfoot
Behold! GSAR Annaconda!

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Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Alex Brentnall said:
I can imagine now at some point someone will recognise it on the street and be like "You guys saved my ship, you are awesome..." Well we can dream right? I will certainly stop and talk to anyone I see with one :)
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Funny you should say that. I've been commuting with my highly prominent Fuel Rat sticker emblazoned iPad cover for months now and was convinced someone would come up and say hi. Not so much as a curious glance tho. I'm beginning to suspect there are people out there in the world who actually don't know who we are!
 

Kerenn

Kerenn
Jacob Marshall said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJh2R_bVxXg
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My name is in that video ! :D

Surly_Badger said:
The front page scroll images are just some stuff I picked off my (gigantic) screenie collection. We should change them up periodically. We should have ... I dunno... Pictures of rescues or Fuel Rats doing other ridiculously dangerous things like refuelling black holes what whatnot.

Suggestions:
- Images should not be super bright in the center or top; think about text contrast and the top menu
- If you want to add explanatory text please keep it smallish yet readable, Arial font, lower left of the picture (e.g.: "Fuel Rats rescuing T-9 stuck in mail slot. Taken just before massive explosion")
- If you have suggestions for slogans on the front pages, hit me with 'em.
- Data-rich maps like some of Alec's beauties would also be good

Send 'em to badger@ranum.com.

I reserve the right to not post everything. I'm hardly an aesthetic maven but we have to uphold some semblance of standards. How (CMDR NAME DELETED) managed to get chocolate fingerprints on a JPEG is completely beyond me. I'll rotate images in and out every so often. Strut your stuff!

Edit: The hosting package I got us includes huge amounts of space. We are not even close to having to worry about it. If you would like to post images or comments or videos of you brewing Insty-Bruu with a black hole's radiation (reprogramming Limpet Drone; limpet drone error; reprogramming Limpet Drone) by all means, the site is a great place to dump your bits. Metaphorically. Email me and tell me you want a posting account and if you check out I'll do the first half of account set up and you're on your way.
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http://kerenn.imgur.com/ see if you find nice things :3
I'm constantly adding stuff there.

Alec Turner said:
Funny you should say that. I've been commuting with my highly prominent Fuel Rat sticker emblazoned iPad cover for months now and was convinced someone would come up and say hi. Not so much as a curious glance tho. I'm beginning to suspect there are people out there in the world who actually don't know who we are!
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Uncanny !
 
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Alec Turner

Alec Turner
Kerenn said:
An Audio Cassette ? Where did you leave it, in the basement of your Sphinx ? ;)
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It was a good natured jibe referring to the decade in which I probably last listened to Jean Michel Jarre :)

Meanwhile, deep in the bowels of the long range scanning room, this happened ...

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Please excuse the grainy image quality, I took this photo using the box brownie I found in the attic next to my copy of Equinoxe.

;)
 
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Surly_Badger

Surly_Badger
Alec Turner said:
there are people out there in the world who actually don't know who we are!
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The galaxy divides neatly into those who have not run out of fuel, and those who know who the Fuel Rats are.


ADMINISTRIVIA:
I recently upgraded the site to the 'pro' version of the style it uses. That includes an (OOOOH AAAAH) Timeline Editor. I will be attempting to cross-transcribe the glorious flickering instant that is the history of the Fuel Rats thus far.

CONTINUED ADMINISTRIVIA:
Look what was waiting for me on my porch when I got home on the red-eye from Lave West! The only thing cooler than a Gen I Fuel Rats 8A scoop is a Gen II 8A scoop, in carbon matte black with loads of attitude. It has a shiny drool-catcher lip and a sparkly white interior. That way the dirt on the inside will show clearly, uh, um... uh oh.
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Alex Traut

A
Surly_Badger said:
Look what was waiting for me on my porch when I got home on the red-eye from Lave West! The only thing cooler than a Gen I Fuel Rats 8A scoop is a Gen II 8A scoop, in carbon matte black with loads of attitude. It has a shiny drool-catcher lip and a sparkly white interior. That way the dirt on the inside will show clearly, uh, um... uh oh.
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There is never any dirt on the inside of an 8A scoop.

Only a Sidewinder that somehow got stuck there.
 

TartanDragon

TartanDragon
CoolCoPilot.jpg

Not sure about my co-pilot. He either thinks I can fly better than I think I can or he is just relaxing.

Which ever it is he is one cool cat.

:p:D
 
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