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Relay station [sci-fi] - The TTRPG network
I must admit I’m posting this in order to gauge if there’s interest on a
Traveller community. If you’re interested drop a comment on this post
[https://ttrpg.network/post/13398248] I created at [email protected]
[/c/[email protected]]. Edit: Alas, I ended up creating
[email protected] [/c/[email protected]] instead. Back to the map: I
created it over a year ago, but hadn’t shared it on Lemmy. As with many
Traveller maps, a square is meant to be 1.5m (close to the 5ft used in most
fantasy genres). >This space station design was commissioned, to the lowest
bidder, by a local planetary government much to the horror of the IISS
[https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Imperial_Interstellar_Scout_Service]. And it
shows that is was done on a budget. Sure, the comms are prefectly suited for a
relay station, but it often feels like a death-trap. Just ask any of the
employees. > >Made up of four general-purpose modules glued together, and then
fitted to accomplish it’s purpose, any outsider would think everything should
work fine. However, many bottom-credit decisions were made and it might be just
a matter of time until something goes wrong. > >For instance, the original
design had a fourth spoke for an additional docking module, but it was scraped
from the implementation and now this station only has a single docking port,
usually occupied by the emergency escape pod. Mind you, the pod can seat 2
sophonts and the station has 4 or 5 regular employees (though it can house up to
eight at a time), so any real emergency would lead to drawing straws. > >The
escape pod itself is also bare-minimum, with only a 1G M-drive (and no J-drive).
The two lucky survivors would arrive at the closest port after 4.5 days (just as
much as the pod’s life-support will last autonomously). > >If that’s not enough
to label it a death trap, just consider that most of the life support systems
are phisically located in the station’s center module, but only the docking
module could be properly isolated in case of a hull breach.