It's worth noting that for any two given planets, there will be some point in their year-cycle where passing between them on direct point-to-point straight line involves going through the Sun or pretty close to. This would tend to have strange effects on any real attempt to be a halfway point.
EDIT: also, would you like a Julian Friez? I could totally see him and Ally bonding, in spite of the fact that they have almost nothing in common, just over the trials of dealing with the Fen.
EDIT: also, a few more reality checks...
- the Octopus's strangeness means that currently, the Island *itself* has a max top speed of .07C - using the Octopus as an engine. That's... a little much.
- Kato's biomod seems to be "Make me a badass." He's got boosted physical stats, absolutely no change in appearance, and his only quirk is a minor neurosis about cats that may or may not have been there before he tasted the wave. This seems unbalanced, as biomods go. If you have no particular objection to slapstick, having him naturally give off an "attractive/appealing/interesting to catgirls/catboys" vibe would both make sense given his other effects and count distinctly as a downside from his point of view - especially since any attempts on his part to avoid them without confrontation would have a decent chance of setting off any applicable feline stalking instincts.
- Having the Shakespeare beat off a raider attack in 2009? That's three years before the SOS Con, and the Con is the point at which people start seriously getting concerned about raider attacks. A lot of people haven't heard more than vague rumors by the time of the Con. Having raiders attacking a large, established, important, occupied-at-all-times space station in 2009 throws that out of whack a little. For that matter, having one boat built as a defensive craft is rather on the paranoid side, pre-Con. There are certainly people who are that paranoid, and it wouldn't surprise me if you had them on your station. Once you've got that, though, why would you bother to put armaments on the Outrigger? (I mean, I guess if the 'bots like the idea of experimenting with weapons or somehting, but....) Once you've got *that*, why would you bother to arm the Delphinus? It's not like naval guns are all that easy to come by, let alone cheap. Most ships flying around Fenspace as of SOS-Con have no weaponry at all, and no real thought that they'd need any.
EDIT: also, would you like a Julian Friez? I could totally see him and Ally bonding, in spite of the fact that they have almost nothing in common, just over the trials of dealing with the Fen.
EDIT: also, a few more reality checks...
- the Octopus's strangeness means that currently, the Island *itself* has a max top speed of .07C - using the Octopus as an engine. That's... a little much.
- Kato's biomod seems to be "Make me a badass." He's got boosted physical stats, absolutely no change in appearance, and his only quirk is a minor neurosis about cats that may or may not have been there before he tasted the wave. This seems unbalanced, as biomods go. If you have no particular objection to slapstick, having him naturally give off an "attractive/appealing/interesting to catgirls/catboys" vibe would both make sense given his other effects and count distinctly as a downside from his point of view - especially since any attempts on his part to avoid them without confrontation would have a decent chance of setting off any applicable feline stalking instincts.
- Having the Shakespeare beat off a raider attack in 2009? That's three years before the SOS Con, and the Con is the point at which people start seriously getting concerned about raider attacks. A lot of people haven't heard more than vague rumors by the time of the Con. Having raiders attacking a large, established, important, occupied-at-all-times space station in 2009 throws that out of whack a little. For that matter, having one boat built as a defensive craft is rather on the paranoid side, pre-Con. There are certainly people who are that paranoid, and it wouldn't surprise me if you had them on your station. Once you've got that, though, why would you bother to put armaments on the Outrigger? (I mean, I guess if the 'bots like the idea of experimenting with weapons or somehting, but....) Once you've got *that*, why would you bother to arm the Delphinus? It's not like naval guns are all that easy to come by, let alone cheap. Most ships flying around Fenspace as of SOS-Con have no weaponry at all, and no real thought that they'd need any.