At the Spacer Lounge: A different way of looking at things

"Me
and Bubba were out there by the out rim, just cruisin' around, drinkin' a few
suds when we saw the strangest thing?
There was this space ship parked down at the south pole of a star. It
was bright fiery red and we thought it was those dang worms.

"So
me and Bubba decide we're goin' bush whack these pesky worm and start sneakin' up
on them. Yeah, yeah I know ain't nothin' down to hide behind anyway, which even
makes it odder? Dang ship didn't move or nothin', Even tried talkin' to them, but nobody, I mean
nobody said word to us.

"I
did tell ya all, we'd been drinkin', haven't I?
I think we' were on a seven day bender there, right Bubba?

There
is a Dralasites in one the floor looking like a gray puddle of ooze.

"Ah
fer get him?" the man waves at his partner and starts chuckling.
"Bubba never could hold his liquor.

"Anyway,
we begnnin' to a think, these guys are in trouble. Because there ain't no worm
ship out there gonna let us this close. So we park old Martha right up beside
her, and climbed right on aboard. Dang
it, wouldn't you know it, it is darn Worm ship?

"We're
about to high tail it of there, when Bubba realizes everyone's asleep. SO we head
on back to our ship and grab our holo recorders and pretend we're tourists.

"Even
poke a few of those pesky critter while they lay in there fish bowls. Thry're
kinda cute, when there a sleepin' like that? Didn't move a inch, even went
fishin' in there swimmin' pool. Must
have tied on one heck of a hangover, because we spent over three hours in
there, and not a one of them moved." The Dralasites mumbles
something. The man scowls at him.
"No Bubba, about to get to that.
Let me tell the story now.

"We're
there at the swimmin' pool, with our rods and the lines in the water when, it
occurs to us, it was like sittin' by the pond back at home, 'cause we got
gravity. Now the dang ship, ain't
movin'. It's dead in space since we saw
the blasted thing, and we got gravity?
Most peculiar thing I've experience in my fifty plus years as a spacer!

"Just
then bubba catches himself a fish. We
start hootin' and yellin'. He lands that
puppy and it's the ugly darn fish you've ever seen. We also realize we woke up the dang
worm. Needless to say Old Martha got a
few more scars and I got another scar.

People
start leaving when the men yells. "Now hold on a dang gum second, I ain't
done yet?"

"About
ten days later we get back, Pale and start show our vids around." He order
another round form him and his partner. He takes the long neck bottle and
shoves into the mass of ooze on the floor.

The
Dralasites sound off in a very deep voice. "Thanks!"

"Hush
up, Bubba. You talk too much." He looks at the people standing around him
and says. "Now where was I...Ah yeah, we were showin' the vids around. and
along come these two guys claimin' to be from Project White book? You know, the Area 61 crap? Ask if they can
get a copy, we say, sure and back to Martha we went. Next thing you know, they toss a doze grenade
and a tangle both at the same time. We
wake up sixteen hours later, and they have trashed our space ship."

Bubba
murmurs something. The man scowls. "Alright more than normal, the point is
they thought had gotten our vids but..."

He
taps the side of his head. "We're smart than that. We had copies made.
Nine days later, we sold them to this nice guy for 1 million credit, said he
worked for Inside Universe or one of the news show. We'd figure we be star's once they hit the
vid services. Dang, if they ain't never
showed them. Now we wished we sold them for three times as much."

By
this time everyone had gone except for a drunk Vrusk who looked at him.
"Can I see them?"

"Sure."
He stomps on the ooze next to him and out pops a data clip. It flies several
feet into the air and he catches as gravity takes hold. He plugs it into his holo
projector...

I
am writing a story dealing with one colony setting out to find the lost brothers
after finding a Star Frontiers ship. Since I draw ships with Anti-grav more
often than those without. (Alpha Dawn ships, I thought I give this a go).

Design:
I gave the ship an organic feel, with allot of curved surfaces in the interior.
Most of the machinery and electronics are stored in the walls. The scout is basically from Module Face of the Enemy (my design) and the ship is the same without the scout/cargo bay (So of interest will let make me label everything).

General
Info: She roughs out to be about 500
tons. 124 meters long. She has a crew of 19, 4 are dedicated combat solders.

Technology: She is armed with 1 particle cannon, 20 ICBM
and 2 dual laser cannons top and bottom, reflective armor and force shield. I went with Void and HEPRE engine. She also
has a Bustard Ram scoop for collecting hydrogen. Range of this vessel is 128
light years before refueling

My
Universe VS Star Frontiers:

MY Universe: one light year per day is the
standard. They use Hyperspace Generators
to accomplish this. Hyperwave
communication (get complicated) allows for communications between stars systems
without interstellar travel. Hyperwave Radar (HYDAR) allows a ship in
hyperspace to detect planetary bodies within fifteen minutes of coming upon
said object. Weapons have set damage and Force Shields stop all incoming fire
(basically added armor.) Scanner detect
out to 1 AU, visual detection based on telescopes. Sensors (five sense within local area)
collect data from atmosphere or space surrounding.

Star
Frontiers Universe: Void travel allows instantaneous travel between stars after
fixing star system using astronavigation (i.e. Jump or Hop drive.) Subspace Radio (operate on quantum physics) is
the same as Hyperwave communications. They have no Hyperwave Radar. Everything
else is basically the same as above, except range is 1/2 an AU.

General
rules: Scanners can't be used in
Hyperspace to detect object in normal space or scan them. Weapons follow said rule (Nasty things can
happen if there is a breech in the Hyperspace field or the generator goes
boom.) Communication between worlds is
done by burst transmission once every 24 hours (depending on antennae location),
therefore there generally a two day delay between the time the message is sent
to the time it is received or delivered (off world telegram for Mister Bubba). Most ships have a one light year range. Ground base units, normal have a ten light
year range can be larger.

The
Sathar in my story have the advantage in several ways: 1: Shields are superior to My universe's (MU)
because of the microization of shields.
2: Their particle cannons are Variable Particle Acceleration Weapons, or
VPAW for short. 3: Void travel allows
them to jump further distances in a shorter time (that get's explained in the
story) Basically it takes 10 hours for
every light year plotted, where as MU ships there is the plot time plus travel
time. 4:
As is the case on this ship, ICBM
carry 10 ktons nukes and as the saying goes with nukes almost does count, were
the yield on MU ships is .5 ktons and are impact detonated. So they can still
miss and cause damage.

The
MU ship in this story is a research vessel.
What saves or brings it up to their level are the following: 1. They know how to collect hydrogen off variable
sources. 2. Their technology can be adapted rather
quickly because of their components (Must have studied parts first.) and can be
repaired easily where the Sathar's can't repair there ship's battle damage (MU
modular components). 3. They can detect the ship's further out due to
Sathar's drives and Scanner systems allow
for some guess to be made. 4. Their
laser turrets either be fired manually or set for anti-missiles defense.
(fighters can overwhelm this system). 5.
Speed and maneuverability, The Sathar are limited by their HEPRE engines
to 3 gs, where as MU ship has a 5gs and the Directional motors to perform
faster turns, they have also been doing this longer than the Sathar since this
technology is new to them.

As
the story stands right now: The Sathar
in this story are Clannish and this clan is known as the Dragon clan. They are
the strongest clan and control most of the area MU ship is traveling
though. General plot line about the
Sathar here is another Clan controls the space around Star Frontiers worlds,
their tech is older and on par with Alpha Dawn
rules. They have more ships,
build them more quickly and can mass on Dragon clan rather quickly (This is why
only two wars with the Sathar have been fought). In fighting has not allowed the AD
Sathar to mass for another attack. I'm basically using things from the Fan
magazines to ruff out the story as well as introducing a few races and equipment of my own.

If there is
an interest in that story, then let me know and I'll start posting it. But a word of warning, adult language and content is
used. So be care for what you wish for...

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