"This is the Steamship Titanic, requesting a harbour pilot for entry to New York"
"Oh Ha-Ha, dickhead, you honestly expect me to believe that one? Get of this damn frequency before I report ya to the Coast Guard"
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Steamship Titanic
Currently owned and operated by the mercenary group Garrets Privateers, rumour has it they 'salvaged' the ship mid sinking for another buyer - but where stuck with the old girl after the buyer got cold feet when he saw the bill. Grabbing the Titanic involved canvassing a number of potential 1912's, one 1916 Titanic was torpedoed off of Kinsale by a U-boat (Irreperable), a 1937 where she was scrapped along with her sister (Shagged and worn out), and a 1959 where Titanic was a floating San Francisco hotel (Gutted and unseaworthy).
Ultimately, the plan involved waiting beside a promising iceberg for the Titanic to do it's usual thing, come to the rescue of the crew and passengers with a freighter, and then offer Mr. Ismay a 'fair price' for the salvage rights to the clearly doomed vessel. Some horsetrading followed in which Ismay delayed for as long as possible before signing on the dotted line.
SCUBA gear, and an expanding foam normally used to contain nuisance crosstime parahumans, were enough to seal the damaged compartments to the point where Titanic could be made seaworthy again and the flooded compartments pumped out.
Titanic then promptly vanished, and it was assumed by all those left behind that Garret's crew had perished while attempting to salvage her. Their insurance paid up. Immigrants found new lives. One became dicatator of the USSA, but that's another story.
Titanic reappared at double-zero, towed into New York harbour by tugs. She was only a century late.
Since the original buyer backed out, the Privateers have taken to using the Titanic as their mobile base of operations. It helps when a whole bunch of wealthy passengers left a good deal of expensive items behind. The ship includes onboard offices, refugee accomodations, staff accomodation, luxury accomodation for guests and clients. She has been partly automated, with her coal boilers now being fed by automated stokers rather than Black Gangs, and her engines now monitored by industrial SCADA systems, allowing her to operate on a minimal crew. Some safety upgrades have been made, with some additional hull plating added internally. Otherwise, she is much as she was in 1912, with many of her fittings preserved. Her engines can be repaired with industrial-revolution era machinery, and she retains the ability to be operated by a full manual crew in an emergency.
When not required for a crosstime mission, will occasionally take charter tours for enthusiasts and filmakers known for being a bit.... tetchy.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?
"Oh Ha-Ha, dickhead, you honestly expect me to believe that one? Get of this damn frequency before I report ya to the Coast Guard"
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Steamship Titanic
Currently owned and operated by the mercenary group Garrets Privateers, rumour has it they 'salvaged' the ship mid sinking for another buyer - but where stuck with the old girl after the buyer got cold feet when he saw the bill. Grabbing the Titanic involved canvassing a number of potential 1912's, one 1916 Titanic was torpedoed off of Kinsale by a U-boat (Irreperable), a 1937 where she was scrapped along with her sister (Shagged and worn out), and a 1959 where Titanic was a floating San Francisco hotel (Gutted and unseaworthy).
Ultimately, the plan involved waiting beside a promising iceberg for the Titanic to do it's usual thing, come to the rescue of the crew and passengers with a freighter, and then offer Mr. Ismay a 'fair price' for the salvage rights to the clearly doomed vessel. Some horsetrading followed in which Ismay delayed for as long as possible before signing on the dotted line.
SCUBA gear, and an expanding foam normally used to contain nuisance crosstime parahumans, were enough to seal the damaged compartments to the point where Titanic could be made seaworthy again and the flooded compartments pumped out.
Titanic then promptly vanished, and it was assumed by all those left behind that Garret's crew had perished while attempting to salvage her. Their insurance paid up. Immigrants found new lives. One became dicatator of the USSA, but that's another story.
Titanic reappared at double-zero, towed into New York harbour by tugs. She was only a century late.
Since the original buyer backed out, the Privateers have taken to using the Titanic as their mobile base of operations. It helps when a whole bunch of wealthy passengers left a good deal of expensive items behind. The ship includes onboard offices, refugee accomodations, staff accomodation, luxury accomodation for guests and clients. She has been partly automated, with her coal boilers now being fed by automated stokers rather than Black Gangs, and her engines now monitored by industrial SCADA systems, allowing her to operate on a minimal crew. Some safety upgrades have been made, with some additional hull plating added internally. Otherwise, she is much as she was in 1912, with many of her fittings preserved. Her engines can be repaired with industrial-revolution era machinery, and she retains the ability to be operated by a full manual crew in an emergency.
When not required for a crosstime mission, will occasionally take charter tours for enthusiasts and filmakers known for being a bit.... tetchy.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?