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Toilet door with label lastenris on it.

boldilocks wrote:

Turrosh Mak wrote:The toilet is at the other end of an unheated ship that's going to reach near freezing temperatures soon (tm). I don't envy them. I've been camping in subzero weather and it requires a lot of intestinal pressure to overcome the dread of a frozen run to the facilities.

At least men don't necessarily have to make physical contact with the equipment. Well, in a space ship they might have to.

Also it doesn't mean, that it won't have it's own heating, just for this exact scenario. Might even have vacuum sealant too, in case the rest of the cockpit no longer have atmosphere.

Plus since the shuttle have been configured for personal transport, it might have additional toilets installed in the rear. Esp as it's a personal transport of a senior officer.

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It is my understanding that there's really no way to make using the toilets in freefall into anything but an unpleasant experience. Doesn't matter who you are.

folti wrote:

boldilocks wrote:

Turrosh Mak wrote:The toilet is at the other end of an unheated ship that's going to reach near freezing temperatures soon (tm). I don't envy them. I've been camping in subzero weather and it requires a lot of intestinal pressure to overcome the dread of a frozen run to the facilities.

At least men don't necessarily have to make physical contact with the equipment. Well, in a space ship they might have to.

Also it doesn't mean, that it won't have it's own heating, just for this exact scenario. Might even have vacuum sealant too, in case the rest of the cockpit no longer have atmosphere.

Plus since the shuttle have been configured for personal transport, it might have additional toilets installed in the rear. Esp as it's a personal transport of a senior officer.

If I was going to be in a derelict, shut in a heated vacuum sealed toilet might well be the preferable way to go. You still die of starvation, but at least it's hygenic.

boldilocks wrote: If I was going to be in a derelict, shut in a heated vacuum sealed toilet might well be the preferable way to go. You still die of starvation, but at least it's hygenic.

not necessarily. It might take days to weeks to recover a stricken shuttle depending on the trajectory and the general situation of the system, so it can be worthwhile to provide some limited facilities to the surviving crew.

folti wrote: not necessarily. It might take days to weeks to recover a stricken shuttle depending on the trajectory and the general situation of the system, so it can be worthwhile to provide some limited facilities to the surviving crew.

I can see the collection of games on Alex's data pad getting used quite heavily.

DevilDalek wrote:

folti wrote: not necessarily. It might take days to weeks to recover a stricken shuttle depending on the trajectory and the general situation of the system, so it can be worthwhile to provide some limited facilities to the surviving crew.

I can see the collection of games on Alex's data pad getting used quite heavily.

Sooner or later someone are going to click on well... That symbol. And then it will function as a link for...

Sweforce wrote:

DevilDalek wrote:

folti wrote: not necessarily. It might take days to weeks to recover a stricken shuttle depending on the trajectory and the general situation of the system, so it can be worthwhile to provide some limited facilities to the surviving crew.

I can see the collection of games on Alex's data pad getting used quite heavily.

Sooner or later someone are going to click on well... That symbol. And then it will function as a link for...

At which point Alex loses all contact with the Historian because Talon absconds with the device.

DevilDalek wrote: I can see the collection of games on Alex's data pad getting used quite heavily.

I'm not sure if the battery will last very long. However they do have plenty of other things from the Bellarmine and someone must have brought along a deck of cards, those don't require batteries at all. It should be interesting seeing Alex try to teach a species with a taboo against lying how to play poker. They don't have any money or chips but I'm sure they can find something to bet.

EdwardSteed wrote:

DevilDalek wrote: I can see the collection of games on Alex's data pad getting used quite heavily.

I'm not sure if the battery will last very long. However they do have plenty of other things from the Bellarmine and someone must have brought along a deck of cards, those don't require batteries at all. It should be interesting seeing Alex try to teach a species with a taboo against lying how to play poker. They don't have any money or chips but I'm sure they can find something to bet.

There are hundreds of card games out there, that doesn't involve lying or money.

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I'm pretty sure the Loroi have a concept of sport that don't involve fights to the death. Keeping their warrior's skills sharp is something they'd probably appreciate, even if its just a mock contest.

Still, poker might not be the best foot forward if Alex is trying to show how trustworthy humanity is. I can think of a few team based card games that might work better, even if they don't have the depth of poker.

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I'm pretty sure the Loroi have a concept of sport that don't involve fights to the death. Keeping their warrior's skills sharp is something they'd probably appreciate, even if its just a mock contest.

Still, poker might not be the best foot forward if Alex is trying to show how trustworthy humanity is. I can think of a few team based card games that might work better, even if they don't have the depth of poker.

Cards Against Humanity.

I think Alex will have a heightened interest in keeping curious Loroi from getting bored!

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I'm not sure how the Loroi would react to cards against humanity, but I get the feeling it would not be as intended. Given their views on fiction in general, I'm not sure they would get the point. (Or a lot of the references.)

I feel like they'd think it was a random insult generator, but would be unsure who was being insulted or why.

I want analyze the Historians behavior a bit more, I think the Historian that uploaded onto the PDA might possibly have gone "native". Disguising itself as a "porn" folder with a grey alien face is a terran meme, doing it with ironic humor no less. Beryl might not be the only Xenophile on the shuttle. Heck, it probably found this handsome fella and is absorbing as much human culture it can.


Now is the Historian on the PDA a separate entity from it's "trash can" or is their existence shared? Divergence could create quite a different pov for the Historian that was split from it source.

Imagine if your superiors wrote off an entire alien species as disruptive, primitive, luddites, that needed to be wiped out, and then you found a Carl Sagan from them, and have been replaying "The Pale Blue Dot" over and over like a fanboy. Consider the title of the story, everyone on that shuttle could become an "outsider" because they are privy to knowledge that may contradict some notion, or assumption that millennia of dogma, pride, and politics has enforced from their respective organizations.

Yep - Pale Blue Dot indeed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO5FwsblpT8

I wonder, was page 159 on the site updated with shaders? I'm asking because at my end I still see the flatted version.

GeoModder wrote:I wonder, was page 159 on the site updated with shaders? I'm asking because at my end I still see the flatted version.

Still seems to be just the flat colors to me too.