Main - Chapter 8: Dianreti III

If The CVHank wants to use the new ship funds get however many of the drugs Mercer will agree to selling with a 70/30 split of what is available until whatever the CVShip Funds buys is sold off. So the CVShip Funds has priority.
So If the CVShip Funds buys 50 and the Mercer buys the other 50 and we sell 24 somewhere 16 of the sale will be for the CVShip Funds and 8 will be Mercer's, until all of the CVShip Fund's are sold. Letting the CV have less risk.

If Corbin doesn't want the mission I am willing to forgo.

The CV is out of the game. Valeria / the ship won't speculate with cargo anymore, there is no need nor benefit, the money is now enough for everything up until disassembly. So now it's only up to you guys, with the new ships funds and your own money. Hank even has an ITC license for it ;)

See my IC post above.

Did you mean the new ships funds?

Yes. The New Ship Funds.

Correct.

Ok, fair enough. No more freight. Was just trying to grab a little more money along the way. 😎

Can I get a look at The CV sheet? It went private again and I want to look up it's fittings and such.

Yeah, it's an annoying bug. The site owner/ developer is looking into it. I made it public again.

The cold sleep pods are absolutely needed until we get the the final destination and the ship is disassembled.

And honestly, I don't see any of the ship-related ship components that can be abandoned at Altairia. Rather, I would expect we need them until we get to Astralon. We can probably abandon the sandthrower. But that would be to make room for a better weapon. We have to have the cold sleep pods because they are required for us to make spike jumps. The ship's locker is still required for all of the sundries we're gonna need during the trip from Altairia to Astralon. In the case of the ship's locker, I'd even argue that it will be needed at Astralon and will be indirectly repurposed for some boot-strapping with the new colony.

But if Mercer wants to buy ship's systems, the time to do it will be Astralon, not Altairia. The CV needs to be a fully functioning starship until then.

Looking at the list of components, the only item I can see that could be jettisoned at Altairia is the armor (because it should be jettisoned now as it provides no benefit) and the cargo lighter (since we're not going to be doing big cargo runs anymore and the shuttle should be sufficient). Everything else is required to get us to Astralon. And, honestly, all of it will be useful to the colony as it is being set up.

The armory, ship's stores, and extended stores will be good to help bootstrap the supplies while the colony is first being built.

The shuttle and cargo lighter will be useful in managing what trade they get and for local transportation. The fuel bunkers will be useful to keep those vehicles refueled. Heck, even the sandcaster can be reinstalled on the shuttle to provide an emergency defense craft.

Even the cold sleep pods can be useful for emergencies where the medical team is overwhelmed. Keep many people frozen while the problem is addressed, then revive and treat them in batches.

So, really, I would imagine that all of those fittings will likely be useful to and used by the new colony in Astralon.

Of course, Hank is not going to be the governor and doesn't have to manage all of that, so I could always be completely wrong about that.

That's all theory until the GM decides, so we probably shouldn't be giving reasons to make things harder. Especially since we will have to be real lucky to get a working ship by then anyway.

Don't worry, it's already designed. Most of the refitting will take place in Englene Station, by the way, after I designed it I saw there was really no reason to postpone much. But we need to finish trading first, let's wait the agreed days for Corbin and Douklan's comments and/or decisions.

Douklan can't afford anything on his own, and he's not yet experienced enough to suggest buying a partial share of a minimum lot with someone else.