Stick with me on this. <br /><br />I am getting ready to do the NaNoWriMo (look that up yourself) and doing an SF story. Since the starships do not land on planets, started thinking of what those left on the ship might be doing while the cool characters are dirtside having all the fun. <br /><br />With grand-kids I have been watching alot of Jake and the Neverland Pirates. I started thinking those lazy pirates never do any real work on their ship like scrubbing the decks, sewing the sails or <em>scraping the barnacles of the bottom of the ship.<br /></em><br />Then my brain combined the two. Now I know what your thinking, starships don't get living things attached to their hulls except in Star Trek (In Star Wars the living things try to eat the starships). But they do come into contact with alot of micro-debris.<br /><br />Here's the idea. The outer skin of a starship is designed to absorb all the micro-debris but this semi-permeable skin needs to be checked to make sure no large pieces have caused damage and the hull sections need to be cleaned of the accumulated mirco-debris. Like scraping barnacles off the hull of a water-craft.<br /><br />Those more familiar with Knight Hawks can work out the details.
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