The idea of being a Quartermaster and doing logistics for OGJ sounds good.
If Wave Convoy is willing to consider Brains as a candidate (Brains is quite willing to talk to WC about what he's done in Fenspace, and he did rescue people and do clean-up at SerenityCon) then he'd be very interested in starting a hull cooking to cybertronium, even if it is going to take years. Brains will have to obtain the (unrefined) uranium to build the Bergenholms, though. [grin]
Would people be happy for Brains to acquire the remains of a ship called the "Boise"?
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32706/32 ... CHAPTER_14
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32706/32 ... CHAPTER_16
Triplanetary: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32706/32 ... 2706-h.htm
I'm planning on claiming that has an (unwaved) alloy hull, is a sphere a bit less than a 100 foot (about 30m) diameter, and was built by EE 'Doc Smith Lensman Fen, who wanted a 'Bergenholm' drive that would fly at FTL speeds inside and outside the Limit, at least at one light year a minute (about 500k lights; Fenspace FTL is 500 lights).
They used allotropic iron generators, and one exploded, injuring no one but wrecking the insides of the ship (rather like the original fiction). Unfortunately, the Fen were sufficiently upset by this that they gutted the remains of the ship, and sold the nearly bare hull, aiming to build smaller, maybe just as experimental, but safer, stuff.
Brains plans to outfit the upper hull with bits he salvaged from the mauler project, and hack the lower hull so it will open in segments, like a flower, to use it as a mobile repair dock for OGJ. It won't be invisible (except briefly, using a temporary 'skin' (not kept on board), as he takes it in and out of his Lunar home, and while it will have very good shields, and tractor-pressers, will be unarmed (except for the strange ability to suppress cosmic ray screens as a power source - which I don't think anyone uses), and tractor shears.
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Brains had no idea that "Pinky" was one of WC nick-names. [grin]
))
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
If Wave Convoy is willing to consider Brains as a candidate (Brains is quite willing to talk to WC about what he's done in Fenspace, and he did rescue people and do clean-up at SerenityCon) then he'd be very interested in starting a hull cooking to cybertronium, even if it is going to take years. Brains will have to obtain the (unrefined) uranium to build the Bergenholms, though. [grin]
Would people be happy for Brains to acquire the remains of a ship called the "Boise"?
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32706/32 ... CHAPTER_14
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32706/32 ... CHAPTER_16
Triplanetary: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32706/32 ... 2706-h.htm
I'm planning on claiming that has an (unwaved) alloy hull, is a sphere a bit less than a 100 foot (about 30m) diameter, and was built by EE 'Doc Smith Lensman Fen, who wanted a 'Bergenholm' drive that would fly at FTL speeds inside and outside the Limit, at least at one light year a minute (about 500k lights; Fenspace FTL is 500 lights).
They used allotropic iron generators, and one exploded, injuring no one but wrecking the insides of the ship (rather like the original fiction). Unfortunately, the Fen were sufficiently upset by this that they gutted the remains of the ship, and sold the nearly bare hull, aiming to build smaller, maybe just as experimental, but safer, stuff.
Brains plans to outfit the upper hull with bits he salvaged from the mauler project, and hack the lower hull so it will open in segments, like a flower, to use it as a mobile repair dock for OGJ. It won't be invisible (except briefly, using a temporary 'skin' (not kept on board), as he takes it in and out of his Lunar home, and while it will have very good shields, and tractor-pressers, will be unarmed (except for the strange ability to suppress cosmic ray screens as a power source - which I don't think anyone uses), and tractor shears.
((
Brains had no idea that "Pinky" was one of WC nick-names. [grin]
))
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind