[RFC Kalyn Telana (open character)

[Rakhasa]

 
First, let's us refresh what we know about Kalyn:

Open Character

Kalyn needs a writeup...

Of course we do have other data, like she is a warsie living in New Yavin and this:

[img]http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/forumimportfiles/4d0162740f50ab84fdfaf274bd689800120854a0_r.jpg?r=2">

Er... not much, I am afraid...

Kalyn Telana

History:

Kalyn was born Susan Williams in California. A shy girl, one of her fondest childhood memories is helping her grandfather build his model trains. As she reached her teens and became a bonafide geek, she applied those skills to the construction of miniatures and dioramas of all fandoms, though her favorite was always Star Wars.

She went to college in UCLA, were she studied graphical design and joined Michael Weston gaming group. She eventually got an internship job designing props and models for a studio, and began her career, when Michael proposed creating The Prank in space. Susan had followed the news in space with interest, but she had never dared anything beyond a few daydreams. For once she decided to take the plunge and live a little: Susan Williams left California, but it would be Kalyn Telana who started the design and construction of Kickassia; as one of the original builders, she joined the Hellfire Club as the Black Knight when it was created.

After Kickassia was completed, she joined the Galactic Republic, and put her skills in the design of the touristic part of New Yavin. While some state that the bright and modern set is colder than the older station, she always replies that you do not need to live in some cramped and rusted container to have “character”

In remembrance of her grandfather, at the end of the Bskone War she managed to convince Queen Serenity and Oscar Vykos to build a tourist train from Marduk to the Moon Kingdom Memorial, which would eventually grow to become the Translunar.

In late 2017 she used her share of the Translunar, gathered some Warsie investors, and began the construction of New Bespin, the biggest of the Jupiter gas stations.

Mundane abilities:

Kalyn has become an acceptable engineer since she reached fenspace, but her talent shines in decoration. With just some papier machê, plastic, modeling putty and handwavium she can take any working structure and turn it into the stuff of dreams. She was the one who designed all the interio decorations of Kickassia, changed the simple waved cars into luxury limousines, and turned simple containers in New Yavin into a space opera station.

Wave abilities:

None known, but with her exotic looks many suspect she has been biomoded.

Appearance:

Susan was a mousy girl with brown hair and shapeless clothing. Kalyn is a stunning, self assured woman with purple hair and who wears... well, not much. While some blame this change in a biomod, many of her friends simply think that she dropped all her insecurities after she found her place in fenspace. (and got a dye job)

Quirks:

None known, but given the people she hangs with, they will come soon even is she still lacks then

Trivia:

She got instant celebrity among warsies when she was the first to design something that looked like a working lightsaber. The secret was a normal metal sword, waved for hardness, and then covered in waved optic fiber, which fake the laser effect. Unlike a real lightsaber, though, they are always extended (the saber is still metal). Since then many Warsies have improved the design to have a collapsible blade, but so far have been unable to build a full length lightsaber that can collapse inside the hilt.

Kalyn does not have too much in details, but I actually do not have any real plans for her; this was done to fill the stub in the wiki a little. A couple of mentions here, like the Translunar trains and New Bespin, will have their own entries eventually.

[HRogge]

Interesting writeup...

In late 2017 she used her share of the Translunar, gathered some Warsie investors, and began the construction of New Bespin, the biggest of the Jupiter gas stations.

Are there more floating Jupiter stations?

[Ace Dreamer]

Nice write-up...

You might want to mention mylar, instead of just plastic, or even BoPET, as it really makes a lot of difference. The real fun comes in mixing mylar with other materials, where (without using any handwavium) you can get some quite amazing effects.

Incidentally, Brains knows how to make a light saber, with the fully retractable blade, the wound cauterisation, etc. It is just a matter of looking at the problem in the right way (and having read enough science fiction). He isn't building any, though, because he really wouldn't like to find one in the hands of someone attacking his family, or friends, someday.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind

[Rakhasa]

Interesting writeup...

In late 2017 she used her share of the Translunar, gathered some Warsie investors, and began the construction of New Bespin, the biggest of the Jupiter gas stations.

Are there more floating Jupiter stations?

Yes. I was planning to to a writeup of then soonish, so I'll give a preview:
Those stations are part of the unspoken (but necessary) infrastructure of fenspace, like yet another future idea for the comet mining stations in the Oort cloud, to answer two questions: Where of the thousands of space habitats, big and small, get the air and the water? Venus, Mars and the Earth-Moon system have pleny, but what od Belters and the people in Jupiter's moon do? In they are the equivalent of the (also undefined, but still there) belter miners that gather all the metals that have been used to build, say, Genaros, the White Tower or the domes of Coruscant.
The air is found in Jupiter. The atmosphere is mainly Hydrogen and Helium, but there are traces of other gases. To quote the wiki:
The atmosphere contains various simple compounds such as water, methane (CH4), hydrogen sulfide (H2S), ammonia (NH3) and phosphine (PH3).[1] Their abundances in the deep (below 10 bar) troposphere imply that the atmosphere of Jupiter is enriched in the elements carbon, nitrogen, sulfur and possibly oxygen by factor of 2–4 relative to the Sun.[c][1] The noble gases argon, krypton and xenon appear to be enriched relative to solar abundances as well (see table), while neon is scarcer.[1] Other chemical compounds such as arsine (AsH3) and germane (GeH4) are present only in trace amounts.[1] The upper atmosphere of Jupiter contains small amounts of simple hydrocarbons such as ethane, acetylene, and diacetylene, which form from methane under the influence of the solar ultraviolet radiation and charged particles coming from Jupiter's magnetosphere.[1] The carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and water present in the upper atmosphere are thought to originate from impacting comets, such as Shoemaker-Levy 9. The water cannot come from the troposphere because the cold tropopause acts like a cold trap, effectively preventing water from rising to the stratosphere (see Vertical structure above)

Of course, "traces" in something a huge as Jupiter is a significant amount in raw terms.
There are many floating gas stations in Jupiter (and Saturn, and, likely, Uranus and Neptune too); the smallest simply vacuum some atmosphere, maybe give a basic distillation, and then either sell the helium (the most valuable basic gas in Jupiter) or carry the product to the bigger ones. The big stations do more than this: They break apart the atmosphere, separate the useful gases, use industrial processes to transform then (mainly carbon in either oil or construction materials like diamond or carbon fiber), and/or build a proper breathable atmosphere to sell to space habitats (this probably will need to use water from some comet to get enough oxygen; we are back to the origin, the unspoken but necessary Oort comet miners)
The very biggest, of course, do all this and more, as they are industrial refineries and full city-states.

P.D. Mylar was, in fact, what I had wanted to say instead of "plastic" but I completely forgot the word... (also, carbon and glass fiber)
  

[Cobalt Greywalker]

RE: the Jupiter stations.

With regards to air (or at least oxygen), Greenpeace spent a lot of time travelling around the Belt doing her photosynthesis thing whilst trading plants. It's one of the main reasons hurting her pretty much qualifies as a Darwin Award.

[Ace Dreamer]

There are good reasons for avoiding Jupiter's gravity well, if you can, unless there is something you really want. Moria CHONics compromise, and use the atmosphere of Titan, from which they harvest hydrogen in the form of methane, to ship liquid methane to the Inner System, and nitrogen, to make Solid Air out of.

http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=CHON

The idea is that Morians use family ships to ply the CHON Triangle: Venus/Titan/Luna, which developed that way due to the history of Fenspace.

CHON (plus Essential Salts) gives you all the requirements of life. The Inner System is lacking in hydrogen (off Earth), except where you can find water ice.

Early on, I'd expect the CHON Triangle to be a major source of raw materials in Fenspace.

But, this may be too small scale once things really get going, so it may become worth harvesting the atmosphere of the gas giants.

If you want metals, Mercury is a pretty good source, assuming you don't get enough from asteroid mining.
Early on, Stellvia Oil is making its products from CO2 from the atmosphere of Venus, and imported hydrogen.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind

[Rakhasa]

Cobalt Greywalker wrote:

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RE: the Jupiter stations.
With regards to air (or at least oxygen), Greenpeace spent a lot of time travelling around the Belt doing her photosynthesis thing whilst trading plants. It's one of the main reasons hurting her pretty much qualifies as a Darwin Award.

Yes, but you need air, as in, a certain volume of assorted gases, to fill your space habitat before you can even think of making it breathable. Air=/=Oxygen, after all.
While, yes, you can do it for yourself (all the first pioneers did it), if there is a company that gathers and sells that air it will save your habitat a lot of effort. And since that company already has an air industry, developing ir further so you can turn that air into atmosphere and sell the finished product is a logical next step. And most, or all, of those extra gases that you took away while makign this breathabel air will probably have soem use in one industry or another, so why should you dump thnaback to Jupiter whan you can sell it?
Bit by bit, a ful air processing industry is born.

[Ace Dreamer]

Cobalt Greywalker wrote:

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RE: the Jupiter stations.
With regards to air (or at least oxygen), Greenpeace spent a lot of time travelling around the Belt doing her photosynthesis thing whilst trading plants. It's one of the main reasons hurting her pretty much qualifies as a Darwin Award.

Yes, but you need air, as in, a certain volume of assorted gases, to fill your space habitat before you can even think of making it breathable. Air=/=Oxygen, after all.
While, yes, you can do it for yourself (all the first pioneers did it), if there is a company that gathers and sells that air it will save your habitat a lot of effort. And since that company already has an air industry, developing ir further so you can turn that air into atmosphere and sell the finished product is a logical next step. And most, or all, of those extra gases that you took away while makign this breathabel air will probably have soem use in one industry or another, so why should you dump thnaback to Jupiter whan you can sell it?
Bit by bit, a ful air processing industry is born.

That was the reason for Solid Air:
http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Solid_Air
Seeing as 80% of your air is nitrogen.  Air leaks, that is why it needs replacement.
Maybe one of the gas giant processing companies is "Moria Air Mining"?
I think the Morians might get on reasonable well with Marduk...
http://www.fenspace.net/i....php5?title=Moria_Mining
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind

[Rakhasa]

Yes, the idea is that there are many companies, from small family stations that only gather raw atmosphere all the way up to one or two floating cities. 

 
Also,

Ace Dreamer wrote:

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There are good reasons for avoiding Jupiter's gravity well, if you can, unless there is something you really want. Moria CHONics compromise, and use the atmosphere of Titan, from which they harvest hydrogen in the form of methane, to ship liquid methane to the Inner System, and nitrogen, to make Solid Air out of.

This sounds suspiciously like logic and reason. People did not start living in something as insane as floating Cloud Cities in Jupiter's gravity well because it was the most efficient or productive position, they did it because it was the coolest.

[robkelk]

This sounds suspiciously like logic and reason. People did not start living in something as insane as floating Cloud Cities in Jupiter's gravity well because it was the most efficient or productive position, they did it because it was the coolest.

In that case...

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Rob Kelk
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