001; username: scavenger [so i heard you have a crashed ship]

[ventifact]

what's the status of this ship? besides crashed
and what class is it? which system did it come from? i've never seen anything like it and i've flown almost everything there is
who was its pilot? its crew? does it have a hyperdrive generator? something this big should
you might know it as the jump drive. that's a term i've heard thrown around but nobody seems to really be able to explain it
i need to know every detail

there's obviously extensive damage all over but the worst debris can probably be stripped away
with time and the right tools
which i need
all of them, all of the tools
i don't care if it's a wrench or a hydrospanner, i need it
just put them in a pile somewhere and i'll sort through the mess
if there's a droid handy, i'll need that too
and lots of rope

i'm going to get this thing flying again

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[circumitus]

the ship itself is titan class. was originally supposed to be used for colonizing before things went to shit.
its former crew is in the camp, if you want to ask them whatever you want to know. not sure if they'll give you that many answers. they've been through a lot.

can answer whatever you need to know about the jump drive. the thing creates wormholes and that's how it travels through space, which is probably what sends people to and from this place. that's the abridged version anyway.

told you before, the tranquility is likely never going to be spacefaring again.
however, with the right scraps you may be able to build a new one. and that's about as hopeful as one can probably get.

[ventifact]

titan class? never heard of it. but a colonizing ship isn't a bad start
i'll ask around maybe

that sounds like what a hyperdrive does, except it doesn't create wormholes
a gravitic polarization beam could
but i'm pretty sure there aren't any of those left
and it wouldn't be on a ship

then i'll build a new one
scrap is only scrap until you make it something

[circumitus]

you'll probably also hear that it came from the miraxian triad, the government that was following the ship before it crashed here.

not a spaceship engineer but doubt you'll find anything like that on the ship.

hey wasn't trying to discourage you.
if you think you can build one then go shoot for it.

UN: pteradon

[dino_zarf]

If we knew where the shuttlebay had landed, I'd suggest that as a simpler target. We're still missing big chunks of Tranquility.

Most of the crew was unavailable until right around the crash. The survivors are here, now. We never had any control over the jump drive. I spent some time doing repairs on it but it's massive.

[ventifact]

you haven't found it yet?
someone said you'd been here for six months
how hard can it be to find a giant piece of a humongous ship?

what do you mean "unavailable"
the bigger the better
probably
tell me what you know then

[dino_zarf]

It gets trickier when there's something tying us to the bit you woke up on. Go too far and you start getting sick. Go far enough and you just plain pass out. So wherever it landed, it's beyond our leash. Ship gets into your head.

I mean they were trapped in the depths somewhere, not aware of us.

The whole ship was basically a flying city. My whole transport could have fit in the engineering section several times over. The way she gets into our heads seems to have something to do with how she operates.

text. (un: xavier.)

[forgodssake]

unfortunately an entire significant segment is completely missing
that and it's in danger of sliding off the edge of the cliff each time its jump drive activates which happens every month

but once you've come to terms with all of that yourself, there might be other ways your talents could be of benefit to us

[ventifact]

[WOW SOMEONE IS A DEBBIE DOWNER]

and nobody has found it after six months for some reason yes, i've heard
and and i've noticed that too but it can be braced to not fall probably

look being an optimist usually isn't my thing but recent and pressing events have changed my mind for the time being


but what do you mean by that anyway?

[forgodssake]

we have a limited radius that we're able to travel before we're physically unable to do so, which I can explain more if you like.
and no, none of the ship was within that radius. we have looked.

believe me, I'm a professional optimist

text. (un: CHAMPOIN.)

[queasycrow]

but the ship is terrible
trust me i was on the ship and it was terrible you don t want to be on the ship
here is much better despite all the fires

text. un: fubar.

[rhyfelgri]

i know his inability to spell undercuts his credibility but he's not lying

that said i'll hand you tools this sounds amusing

[ventifact]

what's "amusing" about trying to get off this planet, exactly?

[ventifact]

i have not been on that ship
but i've been here two weeks
and i'm willing to place my money on the ship

[queasycrow]

when it s not being nightmarish it is really boring
and everyone s spent a long time trying to not be on the ship anymore due to nightmarish and boring

un: user885

[cannotforget]

finally someone who doesnt think fixing the ship is a fools errand.

[ventifact]

not when it could be the only thing that might get us off this planet

[cannotforget]

sadly i dont know that much about the ship itself. its been just a month since ive been here myself, almost two. there at least one person who was in the ship before it crashed here, aside from the crew that showed up

user: david;

[noman]

Hello. You can use some of what the crew has salvaged, I'd imagine - but should something more urgent come up, we will need the tools back.
Have you settled in at the main camp?

[ventifact]

that's fine
i probably won't want most of them anyway

south of it
it's quieter here

[noman]

That's true. :) Nevertheless, I hope you've been helping yourself to community meals now and then. You're welcome to them.

text - UN: fleetside

[hairrands]

Wait you want to get that huge hunk of ass into the air

Come on rye think smaller

Faster

Better

Anyways count me in I have the bottles and if things go my way they'll be full so anything nobby will give up for free they'll give up for booze

And anything left over goes to smashing over the nose of the finished product

Christening style

[ventifact]

well something smaller would be easier
but there isn't really anything to work with other than this
so bigger and slower is where we'll have to start until something else comes along
i just have to find that something else

[hairrands]

People say there was a shuttle bay

Like real shuttle craft

Nobody found where they are yet though so your fess is as good as mine

I also hear gossip about a ghost plane out in the jungle but it might be a lost case

If you ask me a plane would be a better place to start than this tower of craps

(un:mechanic)

[letmetakeaselfie]

I don't have the answers you're looking for.
But I think I can help.

[ventifact]

you have tools, then?
or a droid
that would be more useful at this point since i've heard about tools already