Altercation survivors on Remlok

[Bugbear]

Blasting my way through my Ooniverse, I sometimes experience pangs of guilt when I destroy an offender or fugitive ship and don’t see an escape pod being deployed. I’m no Han Solo. I (almost) never shoot first, and despite the evidence of my Elite ranking (Dangerous), I do not like to consider myself a murderer.

(Sometimes I wonder if in my game it should be mandatory that all ships be equipped with an escape pod.)

In the absence of mandatory escape pods, would it be safe to assume that all ships come equipped with a Remlok mask for all ship inhabitants? If so, then how cool would it be to see lifeforms of various shapes floating around after an altercation, waiting to be picked up. Isn’t that what the Moray Medical Boat is for after all?

Given the scales (HAH!!!) that exist in Oolite, I’d expect these bodies to be very small – smaller than a cargo pod perhaps.

Has anyone actually seen or drawn pictures of the various Oolite species?

[Diziet Sma]

Very interesting idea indeed.. I like the sound of it!

perhaps this should be moved to OXPs for discussion, as I imagine it would be dealt with via OXP.

[Rorschachhamster]

This is ... funny.

I just had this idea this morning (I have a scrippling in my notebook to prove that! ) Because I deemed it inpractically to design a single body to float in space out of size considerations, I just thought about doing something like a small cluster of bodies in size of a cargo container.
It would relatively easy to make, as the bodies themself would have to be only a few blocky shapes in this size to get it across, and if you put a handfull of them and a little debris in this cluster you could have a relatively realistic effect, I think.
Oh, and I would put them in a bulky spacesuit, so you could just put a few extra-limbs or two heads on some of them. Voila, instant aliens without too much detail.
And I'm starting wings3d right now.

EDIT: Because of totally shitty writing...

[Wildeblood]

You mean something like this poor, unfortunate fellow?



Shipbuilder created this model at my request about two months ago.

[Rorschachhamster]

Ha! That's great!

What did you need him for?

[Wildeblood]

Debris.

And as an alternative escape capsule model.

[Diziet Sma]

Wildeblood, that is just awesome.. I'm still chuckling..

(speaking scale, how big did you have to make him/her?)

[Commander McLane]

I suppose size would be the main problem, at least if you care about it.

If you just enjoy the game without asking too many questions, you'll be fine.

[Thargoid]

To digress slightly, you may be interested in NASA's 3d resources which include models of a lot of satellites, rockets, the shuttle and also some astronauts.

Not tried them yet in-game, but the images on the site look lovely (mostly) and should be usable. Files are in various formats, which may or may not cause headaches.

[Commander McLane]

Yes, back on topic.

While the astronaut in his suit looks lovely, I thought the Remlok device would be some sort of mask that covers only the face, not a complete suit?

[Tricky]

Yes, back on topic.

While the astronaut in his suit looks lovely, I thought the Remlok device would be some sort of mask that covers only the face, not a complete suit?

I got the impression it was like a "shrink wrap" suit plus breather.

[Cody]

... a skin of plasFibre had been shot across his body from nozzles on the face piece, keeping him warm against the cold, tightening and protecting him, securing him against the void. The oxygen flow in his body was cut off to all but his heart and brain. Needle-doses of adrenalin and somnokie were held ready, just within the skin area of his mouth, ready to alert or depress his body functions according to circumstances. And the RemLok screamed through space for help.

[Tricky]

Ah-ha! The omens for tonight's quiz game are looking good if I can partially remember some information I read once 27 years ago.

[superbatprime]

Hah!
Remlok was the first thing that I thought of when messing around with Knotty's Felix Baumgartner tribute oxp.

It would be handy to have for those times when the escape pod gets damaged (which usually happens because you're in a situation where you actually need it lol).

A backup for a backup... and the wideband distress message would go out and then the droids come and get you, it would be awesome.

It would also be awesome because that little human model represents YOU.
You would finally get to see yourself in the Ooniverse, (albeit in less than ideal circumstances) that would be crazy.

[Smivs]

It would also be awesome because that little human model represents YOU.

<Smivs would need a Pumpkin-like model>