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[META] Would the owners of these ships... - robkelk - 03-31-2007
Pursuant to my Writers Guide project...
Folks, these two ships are reasonably important to Fenspace, but arent yet in the Ship Registry. Would the creators be kind enough to fill in the blanks, fix
whatever I got wrong, and post them to the Registry, please?
This ones almost complete. I couldnt find any hints to a maximum speed in the story (Id guess 0.07c;
this would let her keep pace with The Inelegant Truth), I took an educated guess at the ships
Purpose, and I took the liberty of adding a Quartermaster to the crew roster (in accordance with the off-hand comments made in the storys thread)...
USS Stingray
(Duane Peters)
Registry Number: SSN 2161-X
Base Hull: Seawolf-class nuclear
attack submarine
Drive Type: Speed
Maximum Speed: _____
Owner of Record: United States Navy
Flag of Record: United States of America
Home Port: Norfolk, Virginia
Purpose: Showing the Flag - US Navy presence in space
Launched: as a spacecraft, March 31, 2012
Known Vehicle Quirks:
Cant hear you over the music! The drive requires loud Sousa marches being played in the engine room
to function. Very loud Sousa marches.
Operation: Petticoat The hull turns bright pink when the drive is engaged.
Known Crew:
Commander Tom Dodge (Captain)
Lieutenant Emily Lake (XO)
Lieutenant j.g. Wilhemina Willie Grumby (Dive Officer, Manoeuvring Officer)
Ensign McHale (Quartermaster)
CPO Aldous Howard (engineer)
Electronic Technician 2/c Nitro Jones
Sonar Technician 2/c E. T. Lovachelli
Reactor Technician 1/c Brad Stepanik-Winslow
Spots Sylvesterson (dive plane operator)
Known Crew Quirks:
No Danes Here: The crew is made up exclusively of Fen and Fendanes; they likely cleaned out the
entire USNs stock on non-Danes to find enough to crew the Stingray.
Three-Hour Tour: Willie Grumby is the daughter of two reasonably-famous castaways, and treats all of
the people marooned with her biological parents as her parents.
Faction: Fendane
Trivia:
* The Stingray has the highest percentage of female crew in the US Navy submarine service.
* The ship has a waved mini-sub (similar to a NR-1 nuclear rescue vehicle) as an auxiliary craft.
This ones less developed, but should still be mentioned because of its pivotal role in Fenspace history. Ive extrapolated what I hope is a reasonable Owner of
Record; if I goofed, feel free to erase that part...
USS Miranda
(ClassicDrogn)
Registry Number: _____
Base Hull: one Large Array radio telescope
Drive Type: Speed (cola-uncola mutual annihilation engine; 80% efficient mass-energy conversion)
Maximum Speed: 500c
Owner of Record: Miranda Consortium (several major colleges including Cambridge, MIT, Sanford,
and Tokyo University; the SETI group; and many private individuals)
Flag of Record: Utopia Planitia, Mars
Home Port: Utopia Planitia, Mars
Purpose: Serious Astronomy
Launched: Winter 2009-2010
Known Vehicle Quirks:
Its five-year mission... The Miranda has
a sixty-month limit on its fuel supply, which can only be replenished in the Sol system. Other consumables need to be replaced more frequently, but can be
scavenged from comets and gas giants.
Crew:
Unknown
Faction: Half Dane, half Trekkie
Trivia:
* The Miranda is the result of probably the only wide-spread privately funded space program that
would ever exist.
* Theres a carefully maintained divide between the waved systems (drive, enviro, navigation) and the pure hardtech (astronomy, mainly), especially in the
computers. Serious Science has no room for waving hands.
I suspect Ill find more ships and people that should be in the respective stickies as I go along... If I do, Ill post mentions of them here.
Edit: My spelling-fu is the suxxors...
-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Re: [META] Would the owners of these ships... - Bob Schroeck - 03-31-2007
Quote:Okaaaaaaay.... Mary Ann or Ginger? 'Cause I'm betting Lovey is right out.
Willie Grumby is the daughter of two reasonably-famous castaways, and treats all of the people marooned with her biological parents as her parents.
-- Bob
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Re: [META] Would the owners of these ships... - robkelk - 03-31-2007
The story says she's a redhead; that's a pretty big hint...
-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
Re: [META] Would the owners of these ships... - Herr Bad Moon - 04-02-2007
Quote:Would that make it a Starwolf-class
Base Hull: Seawolf-class nuclear attack submarine
?----------------Jon
Being the Mariner hitting coach is like being the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts.
-Poster on USSMariner.com
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"And that must have caused my dad's brain to break in half, replaced by a purely mechanical engine of revenge!"
Re: [META] Would the owners of these ships... - Bob Schroeck - 04-02-2007
Quote:I missed that detail. Yes, it's a big hint.
The story says she's a redhead; that's a pretty big hint...
...
So, how did Gilligan react to getting pregnant?
-- Bob
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