"Okay, people, sitrep."
The four fen crew of the Toy Box sat around the table in the sole room of the ship that had full gravity, the small canteen that was build into one of the frontal containers. Okay their beds and the bathroom were under gravity as well, but that was it for the Toy Box. A coffee machine puttered in the background while a coffee can stood between them and each had a mug of coffee in front of them. And various sheets of paper.
"Does not look so good," Fee, who took part over a screen and webcam in one corner of the canteen. "You can be glad that you started to live aboard two weeks ago..."
The four fen nodded and drank of their coffee.
"What do we have?" Naedial wondered and everyone looked down at their papers. In the last hour they had been busy to put together a list of things they had at all.
"Does not look too good on the food front," Thorsten noted and everyone rolled their eyes.
"Its always about food with you..." Danni noted and got a sigh out of Thorsten.
"I wanted to get us food stuff today," he noted." But since we were interrupted... Not much left. A couple of cans of soup, some pork, vegetables and potatoes. Some sausage and bread. Not enough for more then maybe two days. The positive thing is that we are not going to run out of coffee, snacks or beer for the next three weeks."
"At least we can get drunk..." Naedial noted and they looked at Alexander who shrugged.
"We got most of our tools," he said." We lost one of the Darwins downstairs through. But the rest was already loaded into the big containers."
"At least something," Thorsten said with a nod.
They had bought some tools through Ebay. Most importantly a CNC lathe and a CNC milling machine. A pair of old robot arms had been an impulse purchase. And then they used to have three RepRap Darwin 3D printers, but now they were down to two. Not that much of a problem as all machines were 'waved and they could still build more Dawins.
And Alexander was a toolmaker, so the mechanical work was not going to be any problem.
"We also got some of the materials. At least enough to build ten more Darwins."
Again everyone nodded.
"Anything we missed on the Box?"
"Well, the plumbing is still unfinished," Danni noted.
"Where can we find a plumber up here?"
"So what do we do now?"
They were silent for a few minutes either staring down at their coffee or drinking from it.
"Maybe its the best if we go for L5. Stellvia should be a good place to start after Starbase 1 moved to Mars."
"Aren't we pretty much broke up here?"
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September 22nd, 2009
We have docked with Stellvia to get ourselves some more food then what we have. I don't want only coffee, snacks or beer for the next three weeks...
The downside is that we were broke and had to sell one of our Darwins and two 50 liter barrels of beer. Interestingly enough German beer sold for more then the 3D printer.
And we managed to find a plumber. Some guy named Julian Friez. He did some really good work.
Anyway, we now have mostly instant food for the next month and a place to store our tools and materials for a month. After that we're broke again. So we better manage to get stuff together to sell next time we dock with Stellvia again.
The four fen crew of the Toy Box sat around the table in the sole room of the ship that had full gravity, the small canteen that was build into one of the frontal containers. Okay their beds and the bathroom were under gravity as well, but that was it for the Toy Box. A coffee machine puttered in the background while a coffee can stood between them and each had a mug of coffee in front of them. And various sheets of paper.
"Does not look so good," Fee, who took part over a screen and webcam in one corner of the canteen. "You can be glad that you started to live aboard two weeks ago..."
The four fen nodded and drank of their coffee.
"What do we have?" Naedial wondered and everyone looked down at their papers. In the last hour they had been busy to put together a list of things they had at all.
"Does not look too good on the food front," Thorsten noted and everyone rolled their eyes.
"Its always about food with you..." Danni noted and got a sigh out of Thorsten.
"I wanted to get us food stuff today," he noted." But since we were interrupted... Not much left. A couple of cans of soup, some pork, vegetables and potatoes. Some sausage and bread. Not enough for more then maybe two days. The positive thing is that we are not going to run out of coffee, snacks or beer for the next three weeks."
"At least we can get drunk..." Naedial noted and they looked at Alexander who shrugged.
"We got most of our tools," he said." We lost one of the Darwins downstairs through. But the rest was already loaded into the big containers."
"At least something," Thorsten said with a nod.
They had bought some tools through Ebay. Most importantly a CNC lathe and a CNC milling machine. A pair of old robot arms had been an impulse purchase. And then they used to have three RepRap Darwin 3D printers, but now they were down to two. Not that much of a problem as all machines were 'waved and they could still build more Dawins.
And Alexander was a toolmaker, so the mechanical work was not going to be any problem.
"We also got some of the materials. At least enough to build ten more Darwins."
Again everyone nodded.
"Anything we missed on the Box?"
"Well, the plumbing is still unfinished," Danni noted.
"Where can we find a plumber up here?"
"So what do we do now?"
They were silent for a few minutes either staring down at their coffee or drinking from it.
"Maybe its the best if we go for L5. Stellvia should be a good place to start after Starbase 1 moved to Mars."
"Aren't we pretty much broke up here?"
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September 22nd, 2009
We have docked with Stellvia to get ourselves some more food then what we have. I don't want only coffee, snacks or beer for the next three weeks...
The downside is that we were broke and had to sell one of our Darwins and two 50 liter barrels of beer. Interestingly enough German beer sold for more then the 3D printer.
And we managed to find a plumber. Some guy named Julian Friez. He did some really good work.
Anyway, we now have mostly instant food for the next month and a place to store our tools and materials for a month. After that we're broke again. So we better manage to get stuff together to sell next time we dock with Stellvia again.