The Raven Spaceship

[Scott]

Dana bought a spaceship (in her name) that our group can use as a base for Guri. The ship's name is The Raven. It's at the landing pad on [123 fake street]. The password to enter is "Swiper no swiping".

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[PotatoJedi]

A bit more information on the ship:

- You can enter the ship using the password above (Swiper no swiping). This allows you to enter the ship. Only myself, Dana and Glenn have access to the ship's main systems such as flying it. It has a security system in place using biometrics, cred card IDs, etc to verify identities.

- There is a basic AI system.
- It is fully furnished, life-support, power, etc and has a meal replicator that can make nutritious but otherwise bland tasting food for [the rest of the season]. It costs 500 credits [per season] to keep all of that going.
- There is a used, enclosed repulsor car and a medium-sized space shuttle.
- 3 not-very-good spacesuits and 2 good spacesuits.
- A rudimentary tractor beam.
- Basic escape pods. These just jettison you out into space. If you want them to take you somewhere specific, that costs an extra subscription service which we did not get.
- It is currently parked in the Corp area on one of the landing pads. This costs 5000 credits [per season] or it will be repossessed. While you can park it outside the corp area, that is far less secure and we felt it best to leave it in a more secure area.
- All expenses have been paid for until the end of [the season].

[M.]

*Static*

“Demons!”

*Static*

[PotatoJedi]

We encountered a Zeer Storm while I was showing Joshua and Alex around the ship. The ship narrowly avoided being caught by the lightning. We were lucky this time around, but it may be worth looking into getting the ship insured (30,000 credits/season) if we want to avoid losing the entire ship due to something completely out of our control.

Zeer Storm – green lightning stuff that happens. It’s usually bad and sometimes it blasts apart structures. If it hits a person you only have a greasy smear left to remember them by. Not fully understood what causes them but it is suspected that various small rocks getting too close to large rocks or some sort of radiation may be responsible. Nobody has been able to predict them. When green lightning is spotted, people either get indoors or, if possible, underground. It is thought that the Zeer Storms help to (at least a little bit) recharge the Rocks so they are regarded as both a good and bad thing.

[Scott]

Nov 10, 2019 18:33:27 GMT PotatoJedi said:

it may be worth looking into getting the ship insured (30,000 credits/season)

*sigh*

Yes.

[jlevy531]

What about getting us some of these cards to be able to use the ship if need be? Don't hog all the wealth!

[Fantômas]

Perhaps it may be worth investigating linking the security to our bracelets somehow? We know they have some sort of blue tooth/wifi or somesuch capability. Perhaps Aoelous can design an app that we can load.

[PotatoJedi]

The thought already crossed my mind. I barely know how these things operate on a basic level, let alone using them as a form of integrated security. That would be the ideal way to secure the ship, however, so the next time I have a spare moment I'll see if I can figure out how it may be done (if possible).

For now we will just have to settle for a simple password.

Another idea that crossed my mind was to have DNA, fingerprint & retina scans. I don't particularly enjoy the idea of leaving DNA samples in the embassy for us to collect at a later date (this also means the system in place would be more susceptible to being "hacked"), so I would suggest we begin getting everyone into the ship's biometrics system whenever they are there. In other words: if you are with me, Glenn or Dana, ask that you go to the ship and get your biometrics taken. Once enough people have access to the ship, we can up the security so that you need to provide a password and biometrics in order to enter.

[Scott]

Freddy and I put some more money into the spaceship. We bought insurance (35k), moved it to a parking spot in a less problematic neighborhood, at [123 fake street] which is paid up in advance until [thru the end of the season] (10k). We also paid the utilities in advance until [thru the end of the season].

Freddy has volunteered to start upgrading the security to include biometrics, if all of you could find time to pop over to Guri the next time you see him. (Unless you don't want to have access to the ship.)

Also there was a vapid robot aboard. Apparently they are known as "electric monks" and repeat whatever you say back to you and say they believe it. Oh, and he was riding an electric horse. As far as we can tell they just appeared there a few days ago. Do they belong to anyone? Does anyone know anything about them?

[PotatoJedi]

- As we were casually discussing our plans to capture the deathclaws to run some experiments on it while shopping around for supplies, a police officer randomly on duty started listening in on our conversation and started sending drones after us. Apparently they think we may be some sort of terrorists or something. No idea why they care so much. I'll leave it down to "the universe hates us".

- We went to the ship to try and continue our planning but they were still following, then they shot some sort of listening device/dart into the ship. We surmised they can hear anything inside. It is located <here> on the ship, though I do not suggest trying to fiddle with it as tampering with Corp/Police things is probably a bad idea.

- The media also took a bit of an interest during our semi-Mexican stand-off with the drones while we were outside the ship wondering what to do.

- We went in, closed the door, and I immediately changed the password to the ship. THE NEW PASSWORD IS: Batman is among us. We had to do so as there were a lot of people around who would have heard it, plus all the drones etc.

- Couldn't leave via Clem's as we were being monitored and we certainly did not want them investigating that. We had no choice but to take the space shuttle and shadow walk out. Unfortunately, because it was clamped to the ship outside, we were unsuccessful in our attempts to delicately get the shuttle out despite our efforts, so the clamps are now damaged (but the ship is otherwise fully functional and fine).

- The shuttle is in Gothic near the flying car and caged deathclaw in the forest just before the irradiated desert. It may be possible to shadow walk it back but extremely unlikely as you need to "keep it going" for around 2 1/2 hours.

So… yeah. I'll work on changing it so that the password needs to be typed in instead of spoken as that will decrease the likelihood that someone will overhear it. Not sure how long the police will monitor the ship, but there is nothing stopping us from still using it. We just need to be careful about what we say when we are there.

[Scott]

Where's the dislike button?

[PotatoJedi]

I'll see if I can get the shuttle back. Tricky but possible.

[M.]

*Static*

An impish voice speaks out.

“Mr Kinley says this is why you should not buy nice stuff.”

*Static*

[Scott]

The insurance/parking/utilities for the ship are paid up [until the end of season 7]. The electric monk and it's stupid horse are gone. They bowled us over as soon as we opened the door and we let them go this time. Good riddance, they trashed the place. If they belonged to one of you, I have some things to throw at you. Also the shuttle is missing (in Gothic, but probably not realistically recoverable), and it tore some holes in the hull as Freddy and Rock ripped it free.

Please do not fly the ship...but if you are going to anyway, keep it in the atmosphere; otherwise, the hull breach will kill you, and you dying will probably wreck the ship.

[PotatoJedi]

I don't know what happened but when Doc/me/Rock flew the shuttle out, it was only the docking clamps that were damaged. The rest of the ship was perfectly intact. Whoever said otherwise played you.