 November 14, 2009 - 9:11pm | I was looking to add a little spice to generic cargo tables. Not much fun hauling around assorted ores, minerals, and ground cars. What sort of interesting items can you come up with? Let's start with the category of ROBOTICS: ACCESSORIES/ATTACHMENTS |
 December 6, 2009 - 4:42pm | Or, the frieghter's carrying a high-risk cargo from the penal colony on Reidsville, two sealed federanium containers which can't even be scanned through. One is labelled "CLEM," the other "VIRGIL." "You're everything that's base in humanity," Cochrane continued. "Drawing up strict, senseless rules for the sole reason of putting you at the top and excluding anyone you say doesn't belong or fit in, for no other reason than just because you say so." —Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stephens, Federation |
March 23, 2010 - 6:36pm | Alright, a serious question for the smart guys. I know in shipping certain products via air or in high altitude, certain considerations have to be made. Such as bags of chips are sealed with less air than chips distributed locally. What sort of effect would vacuum have on say, cans of soda or bottles of whiskey? I know some beers were marketed in heavy gauge aluminum bottles; would SF beer need to be transported in something like that or in large tanks? I am suddenly hit with the curious desire to see a fresh keg shot out into space. |
 March 23, 2010 - 7:01pm | Alright, a serious question for the smart guys. I know in shipping certain products via air or in high altitude, certain considerations have to be made. Such as bags of chips are sealed with less air than chips distributed locally. What sort of effect would vacuum have on say, cans of soda or bottles of whiskey? I know some beers were marketed in heavy gauge aluminum bottles; would SF beer need to be transported in something like that or in large tanks? I am suddenly hit with the curious desire to see a fresh keg shot out into space. obviously the following should only be taken with a grain of salt (maybe one liked off the back of your hand) in the novel "Semper Mars" a unit of marines, out numbered facing near certain death used stocks of beer in a defence based from the "Face of Mars" and hurled cans of beer at the chinese (think it was chinese) troops below. When a can impacted something it spray out contents which froze fast. The end result was that the chinese troops got frozen beer on their face masks and then became targets. In "Lunar Marine" it was then mentioned that the new unit patch had a caption that said something like "X # of miles to kick ass and they didn't let us drink the beer" The X # of miles was what they had travelled from earth to mars I think- been awhile since I read it so dont hold me to that. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 March 23, 2010 - 8:11pm | Alright, a serious question for the smart guys. I know in shipping certain products via air or in high altitude, certain considerations have to be made. Such as bags of chips are sealed with less air than chips distributed locally. What sort of effect would vacuum have on say, cans of soda or bottles of whiskey? I know some beers were marketed in heavy gauge aluminum bottles; would SF beer need to be transported in something like that or in large tanks? I am suddenly hit with the curious desire to see a fresh keg shot out into space. lol nice thoughts. I always assumed that perishables would be shipped in sealed and contained units. Right now we have shipping containers that have pressure relief valves for different altitudes, why wouldnt the Frontier have containers that are environmentally sealed and possibly contain a life-support system or even be placed in a freeze unit? Specialized freighters could even adjust the cargo hold to accommodate cargo needs as well. Time flies when your having rum. Im a government employee, I dont goof-off. I constructively abuse my time. |
 March 24, 2010 - 4:21pm | I design many of my larger frieghters to set aside a few decks for cargo that needs to be kept in a pressurized environment. These decks would have large cargo hatches (large enough for forklift type machines) that would have to mate up with cargo handling airlocks onboard the docking station. However, pressurized cargo containers work too. Like the crates used to smuggle chukkas in the Dramune Run. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of
the strong. * Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi |
