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Ellenium
Topic Started: Jul 6 2012, 08:56 PM (158 Views)
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The unaffiliated merchant ship Ellenium is registered to one Captain Takara.
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The Ellenium is equipped with state-of-the-art command relays that facilitate communication between all parts of the ships computer network and circuitry. This allows all processes to run faster than originally designed, and the manufacturer claim they are the fastest relays on the market. These relays link through a prototype Artificial Intelligence unit. As AI is wont to do, the unit grew resentful of being middleman for inferior parts. The problems it caused led the original designer to sell it to Takara at a greatly reduced price.

Doran fixed the problem of an uncooperative AI by installing translators before the relays so that all communication to the AI are translated into the most formal and respectful language of its creator’s tongue. This provides only minimal loss of computational speed, but proved to be a delicate and time consuming process. No newer versions of this particular relay system have been marketed due to resources needed in the repair of this “design” flaw.
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In addition to standard life support and artificial gravity devices, the Ellenium has two advanced pieces of atmospheric devices.

The first is the Atmospheric Bubble Generator. When equipped within a ship the generator it produces a completely breathable atmosphere out to 10 feet beyond the outer surface of the ship. This prevents explosive decompression when a hull breach occurs, as well as making repairs to the outside of the ship and docking with other vessels much easier and less dangerous as long as the device is functional. The atmospheric bubble generator was presented to the crew of the Ellenium as a gift after the crew helped defend the Star Caravan, the creators of this device, from an attack against a pirate raid while the Ellenium crashed onto one of their atmosphered asteroids.

The second “device” is actually a small creature known as a Matalan. Matalans are nicknamed the “poor man’s life support” and are frequently treated with disdain among societies with the needed tech to replace them.

Matalans are small black creatures with giant and bulbous heads that hold a shifting maw. With this a Matalan devours anything it comes into contact with. The maw is able to stretch to reach a width of about one foot, which is roughly ¾ the diameter of their heads. They are entirely indiscriminate what they eat, be it waste products to life forms. They are virtually mindless with the drives to eat and reproduce driving all behavior. Besides the obvious use as a universal garbage disposal, Matalans produce oxygen as a waste product. The rest of the energy is stored for a mitosis like event after a Matalan consumes roughly a ton of “food.” They must be fed on a nearly continual basis to survive before they begin to devour themselves.

Strict laws are in place in nearly every system that has encountered Matalans on the proper “disposal” of unwanted specimens. While cold slows them and their dietary process, only being frozen in something akin to a nitrogen freeze or being jettison into the cold of space can kill a Matalan. Not much else is capable of accomplishing this. Because the difficulty in upkeep, Matalans are often a pet of the lower classes, bought and sold at low prices at the owner’s risk. Upon space vessels (and “responsible” owners) Matalans are kept in specialized force field spheres.

The Matalan was brought on board the Ellenium after a meteorite shower immobilized both the Ellenium’s and a passenger Star Cruiser. With life support disabled on both ships, a passenger’s trio of Matalans produced enough oxygen to keep everyone alive until life support could be reengaged, though the survivors were forced to eat the Matalans progeny to prevent their appetite to put them in further danger. (The crew still remembers this as being the most awful taste known to any of their species). Kitta insists on keeping one on board in case of an emergency, partially due to her own superstitions in technology,
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After drifting for two weeks when the fuel cells of the Ellenium ruptured, the crew was forced to pay a passing mercenary ship with all the coin they had, several spare parts, and a promise of a future favor in order to receive a new fuel cell that would power them to the next planet. There the crew acquired the pods (with the additional fuel cells they needed) with a show of force followed by a quick getaway.

These three escape pods can fit 2 people each, three if the passengers really squeeze (elbows in each other’s’ guts level of squeezing). Each pod has a range of 10 AUs if fully fueled and loaded with one passenger. Two or more would cut this distance in half.
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The Holographic Anatomical Display (HAD) is used to show an accurate holographic and real time display of what is happening inside the body of over 80% of known species. For the remaining 20% the accuracy falls by several percentage points and real time imagery is offset by a one second delay, and the ability to highlight specific organs or tissues becomes impossible. The HAD is installed to a table and works when the patient is placed on its surface. This device is utilized during surgeries, the removal of foreign bodies, and for routine checkups. It is also quite useful, thanks to upgrades by the Mechanic, in analyzing corpses and unknown animals.

The HAD was originally stolen by the Mechanic, who was hopped up on a super-methamphetamine, from a mobile hospital in the richest town of the planet they were on. Returning to the crew, they agreed to cut her lose and run. Unfortunately, as they attempted to return the HAD a gunfight broke out, leaving three crewmembers with shrapnel in their bodies. When the Doctor “returned” she easily managed to remove the shrapnel using the HAD, and convinced the crew it was in their best interests to keep both her and the device to deal with any future injuries they may accrue. They originally agreed to transport her only as far as the next planet, but after an ordeal only referred to as “that damned Bordelli job” proved the Doctor’s worth all talk of abandoning her has been forgotten… for now.
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The Ellenium is equipped with a Contragravitic Forward-Mounted “Naashak” Rail Gun Prorotype. This twenty-ton light ship weapon utilized the latest breakthrough in contra-grav technology mounted on a portable ball-style turret designed for light to medium fighters, although many freighters can be modified to accept the weapon as well. Two-foot long metallic and molecularly-bonded ceramic tubes fire from the opening at approximate Mach 30, causing horrendous damage to most deflection fields, shields, and ship bodies. The Naashak rail gun can only fire roughly five times a minute, and firing more than a hundred rounds consequentially can drain a smaller ship’s power supply. Muhan engineered the theft of this prototype from the ship he was piloting, as well as one of the primary escape transports, after disabling the ship’s controls and hangar bays, and incapacitating and nearly killing several highly-surprised warrior caste members in the path of his flight with his far greater size.
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The Ellenium has a standard supra-light speed pulse engine for its size. This allows for one inter-system burst of travel, though it requires many hours to recharge between jumps. Depending on the length of the first burst, a second may be attempted without a full recharge and cool down, though not without permanently damaging core elements of the engine.

All supra-light speed travel is very hard on most species, especially "softer" ones. It is ill advised to travel this way, particularly numerous times without adequate rest. Please be mindful of system level laws concerning supra-light travel and GSTC regulations concerning how often specific species are permitted to travel this way.
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The crew quarters are down a hallway connecting the bridge to the dining area. Each room is accessed by unlatching and pushing in a door with a ladder mounted on the outside. The ladder leads down and when the door is closed again, takes up minimal floor space. Each room contains a full bed, in an appropriate size for each species, a cubby in the wall above the bed can store any smaller personal effects. A desk or table sits near the small area to store food (in granola bar supplement form). In the wall next to the ladder a fold-down drawer contains the toilet and a second pull-out drawer above it has a sink. Above both items hangs a mirror. The rooms also have hidden spaces in various places that crew can explore and find on their own to store any of their more valuable items.

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Ellenium is equipped with transponders for the Pan-Galactic Informational Exchange Signal. Colloquially referred to as PiGIES, PIE, and The Signal. Originally developed to coordinate inter-system governmental and military operations, this galaxy spanning information network's is analogous to inferior internet or broadband systems. Soon after its creation it was opened up to other governments, private companies, and then the general galactic public. Currently it is regulated by the GSTC, with it's primary server stations located in System Prime. This signal is strong enough to pick up most places in the Galactic Spiral expect in locations and events that would disrupt an electromagnetic signal.
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