Fair warning, I'm about ready for bed, so some of this may not be entirely coherant.
Part of the background I've come up with for my characters (assuming I ever finish writing them up enough to work with) is that they started out as part of an asteroid mining company (Wing and a Prayer Enterprises). Most of the founders decided to retain ownership and set up house in their 3rd space rock (Babylon .5 Station). Earlier today I had an idea of one of them setting up the first Fenspace radio station, playing news (fen and dane), sports, traffic (concerning large objects in the Earth-Luna region, like arriving asteroids for mining and other things you don't want to stand in front of) and even weather ("We got some activity from a solar flare due in this afternoon, so expect some problems connecting to the net...")
My characters will have their own ship, a modified C-133B Cargomaster (I was inspired by 1 of the pics from the Davis-Monthan AFB link Drakensis(?) posted in the original thread) that'll have several laser turrents (inspired by WW2 bombers and the Millenium Falcon), at least once they get things working properly, right now they're just really impressive looking laser pointers.
I was thinking of having an exo-frame/powerarmor type suit aboard, mostly designed for construction, but power lifting claws and plasma welding/cutting torches make effective (if very short ranged) improvised weapons.
The ship and crew will act as jacks of all trades, if they spot a valuable asteroid they'll tow it in for mining, or they can do cargo/passenger runs, ect.__________________
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. - George Carlin.
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin
Part of the background I've come up with for my characters (assuming I ever finish writing them up enough to work with) is that they started out as part of an asteroid mining company (Wing and a Prayer Enterprises). Most of the founders decided to retain ownership and set up house in their 3rd space rock (Babylon .5 Station). Earlier today I had an idea of one of them setting up the first Fenspace radio station, playing news (fen and dane), sports, traffic (concerning large objects in the Earth-Luna region, like arriving asteroids for mining and other things you don't want to stand in front of) and even weather ("We got some activity from a solar flare due in this afternoon, so expect some problems connecting to the net...")
My characters will have their own ship, a modified C-133B Cargomaster (I was inspired by 1 of the pics from the Davis-Monthan AFB link Drakensis(?) posted in the original thread) that'll have several laser turrents (inspired by WW2 bombers and the Millenium Falcon), at least once they get things working properly, right now they're just really impressive looking laser pointers.
I was thinking of having an exo-frame/powerarmor type suit aboard, mostly designed for construction, but power lifting claws and plasma welding/cutting torches make effective (if very short ranged) improvised weapons.
The ship and crew will act as jacks of all trades, if they spot a valuable asteroid they'll tow it in for mining, or they can do cargo/passenger runs, ect.__________________
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. - George Carlin.
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin