Chapter 6.1: Stellar Deliveries

"James, it is never prudent to volunteer. That's just Human 101. However, since you spoke up, follow me and we'll grab your gear."

Corbin and James head down to the Armory and gear up.

"OK, this may sound overkill, but ...

Since we have pretty much anything available, I think we should seriously consider anything available. So, for weapons and armor, no one should bring their own stuff. Let's just take stuff from the armory. We should all be equipped with a laser rifle or plasma projector, and a full Assault Suit. (The reason for the laser rifle or plasma projector is that attaching it to the Assault Suit gives it unlimited ammo.) Add the side arm of your choice. There is no particular reason to screw around and I figure it is way better to be over-prepared than under-prepared. We should each also have a spare vacc suit/armored vacc suit, too, in case we have to dress down at some point. We should all also have a spare B-cell for each suit of Assault Suit.

For equipment, let's go nuts. We probably need a couple grav harnesses, grapnel launcher, glowbugs, rations, rope, survey scanner, survival kit, thermal flare, and vacc fresher. Then a stack of A-cells and some more B-cells for the grav harnesses. Probably ought to have a bioscanner, lazarus patches, a medkit, metatool, spare parts, and a toolkit, too. "

For Hank, that means assault suit, laser rifle, laser pistol, armored vacc suit, survey scanner, and grav harness (unless others are going to take that). In addition, he will take a dataslab, five line shunts, and a storage unit, just in case.

EDIT: Also a backpack to carry his computer stuff and the scanner.

You make a good point, we may want to vary our weapon type, to get a better utility overall. Splitting between Plasma and laser makes sense, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to bring something ballistic. Are there any Void Carbines around here?
Or any Drones? If not it wouldn't be a bad idea. I know a cheap one with a good scanner (Observation Suite), and ability to carry an extra medpack, is only 500 creds. Plus we have a less fleshy scout.

"You can also count me in"

Peter did a quick inventory of the new items of the armory and he agrees with Hank

"Since we now have the option we should really take advantage of it, in the worst case we scenario we would have more cargo to carry there and back"

"We should definitely take some extra medkits and some extra food, who knows how hungry they must be or we will get"

Peter will also try to help to fit everyone with the gear they require and help anyone who does not have experience with the gear.

OK, fair point on the armor. So ...

Jil, Erin, Douklan, Corbin, and Peter should all take an Assault Suit, a spare B-cell and a suit of Combat Field Uniform. (There is no point in using Woven Body Armor. Use CFU instead.) They can then wear whichever armor makes the most sense for the situation. They should all have a Laser Rifle or Plasma Projector as their long arm. If they want an alternative long arm or a side arm, they can put that in the shuttle, too. Hank will strongly recommend this as it is better to be over prepared than under prepared.

Mercer should take whichever kind of vacc suit he prefers and a CFU. He will only wear whichever one makes the most sense.

Hank will take an armored vacc suit and a CFU. As above, he will chose whichever armor makes sense when they get there. He will take both a laser rifle and a laser pistol, but only wear the pistol and three A-cells, storing the rifle on the shuttle. He takes a TL4 backpack and loads it with a dataslab, six line shunts, a storage unit, a field radio, binoculars, and a survey scanner. (He will fill out any additional capacity when they get there.)

He makes sure that the following minimums are present, with anything missing loaded onto the shuttle:
- At least two bioscanners, medkits, toolkits, metatools, sets of spare parts, grapnel launchers, grav harnesses, vacc fresher.
- Three days of rations and water per person.
- One atmofilter, climbing harness, grav chute, low-light goggles, rope, survival kit, telescoping pole per person.
- A full box of glowbugs.
- Ten B-cells.
- A full box of A-cells.
(This is just the intended minimums for the group. If two people already have metatools, then drop it from this list.)

Does that work?