*as soon as they reach a safe distance, todd engages the ship's FTL drive, space around it beginning to contract in front and expand in back from an outside point of view while inside the stars appear to elongate in the opposite direction the vessel is moving - until they pass the lightspeed threshold and the elongation…
todd: uh huh...don't worry, i won't burn your delicate eyes out with the sight of my glorious rocket come morningtime - but for right now, i'm going to get us going, so you can go choose a bunk and put those things you brought away, if you want; make sure the food goes in the stasis unit in the common area, though - and…
todd: do...what? like, use the shower for its intended purpose? i intend to - we're going to be in tight confines for a week, and while some may appreciate natural musk, many don't
todd: six bunks with lockers, two toilets, one shower, two replicators and a table for eating - just enough amenities for short trips; the wolfhound class of interceptor is a bit bigger and has more amenities - that one's meant for longer trips and is popular in civilian markets because of that *he palms the button to…
todd: yes, a week - we can only fit so large of a drive in something this size; it would only take a day with the ursini itself and it's not THAT small - it's roughly the size of a federation runabout...be glad it isn't a shuttle
it would need to be way, WAY more than hundreds of thousands of minerals if it's open to everyone, because there is a not-insignificant portion of the remaining player population who have millions in stock - only hundreds of thousands would mean getting filled almost instantly
todd: you hope, anyway *they enter the hangar and the vulpine heads for the nearest foxhound interceptor - which is something of a misnomer as the ship is the size of a personal freighter, though most of the bulk is taken up by oversized engines while the rest of the design is sleek, smooth and very aerodynamic-looking,…
level of destruction has no bearing on a technology's time period - look at atomic bombs; one of them can obliterate a city in minutes while it took thousands of bombs months to accomplish barely 70% of that in major cities just years before - it still doesn't put atom-splitting centuries ahead of its time
we actually have something like that in the form of an experimental weapon - it yanks targets toward the impact point just as hard as graviton spike does...its pull radius isn't anywhere near as good, though - it should really get an increase https://sto.gamepedia.com/Graviton_Implosion_Charges
todd: you aren't the only one - some people even refuse to use transporters entirely *he replies as he exits the transporter room and heads for the nearest hangar* you think we'll run into any of your group on the way?
*as they reach the beamdown point, todd taps his comm* rustmane to ursini, two to beam up *and they both vanish in a swirl of silver energy, reappearing in the ship's transporter room*
todd: why do you have so much animosity towards resorts? i would think you'd enjoy the sand here, since it isn't anywhere near as coarse, rough and irritating as it is in the outback
todd: not from crew quarter replicators - they're set to only dispense non-alcoholic drinks, so the crew doesn't show up for duty all wasted; only the commissary onboard has alcohol and the ability to replicate alcohol, as well as guest quarters, like yours
*the PAW pings and todd glances down at it* okay, i got clearance and last report had the imperator at deep space nine...hopefully, he'll still be there *his fur ruffles and his ears twitch slightly, almost like a nervous tic*
todd: because i'm the ship's intelligence officer, which means i can't just up and leave - i need to let pack omega koda know ahead of time so he can call for a temp