Peninsula on the southeast coast of the northern continent looks like a good spot.” “Where shall we land, Gertie?” Ham asked. They are going to set down on an unknown unexplored planet to do repairs. At their last encounter with hostile forces, they got away but the ship took damage. (ed note: the good ship Space Angel is unexpectedly on a desperate mission. If this is a warship you'll have gunners, electronic warfare officers, espatiers, and other types of astromilitary. Miscellaneous Sparks in the radio shack if you want to talk to anybody, radarman if you want to spot anything coming, life-support techs so you can breath, cargo-masters to arrange trading and to pack the cargo so the blasted ship doesn't fall off her tail, cooks and pursers. The doc might be only a hospital corpsmen, but that is light years better than nothing. Doctor/Medic Ya gotta have a doc, expecially if it is 2.7 years before you can get the sick person to a hospital. Fixing a clogged toilet is quite different from fixing a laser cannon crater in the hull. If the ship is a warship, the chief engineer is also the chief damage control officer. Engineers inspect all the ship systems, do maintenance, repairs, and otherwise keep the blasted ship from falling to pieces. The lee helmsman is almost always an engineer, unless the first officer is really stupid. Engineer The engineer's main job is to look after the engine, duh. In between maneuvers the pilots play a lot of solitaire and surf Facebook. If the thrust controls are too darn complicated then the pilot job will be split into two jobs: helmsman handles the attitude controls and lee helmsman handles the thrust controls. #Lord of rigel missile plusThe pilot uses attitude controls and the attitude display to point the ship's nose (and make darn sure it stays pointed the right way), plus thrust controls, chronometer, and delta V display to start the burn at the right time and keep it burning long enough for the required delta V. Maneuvers have three parts: direction to point the ship's nose, how much delta V to burn, and exact time to do it. Pilot The astrogator will be occasionally feeding to the pilot a maneuver to be done. If the ship drifts out of the groove, the astrogator will calculate a special maneuver called a "mid-course correction" to get the blasted ship back on track, and feeds it to the pilot. During the trip the astrogator watches the ship's position and vector like a hawk, since starving to death after you've eaten all your crewmates is such a nasty way to die. Once the trip is chosen, the astrogator breaks it down into " maneuvers" and feeds them to the pilot. Or discover there ain't no acceptable trip so it's time for a captain-astrogator conference. From that the cap'n can chose the trip with the best possible combination of launch date, arrival date, and delta V cost. When the destination is ordered, the astrogator will draw a pork-chop plot for the cap'n. Once en route, the astrogator keeps a sharp eye to make sure the blasted ship stays on course, giving the pilot mid-course corrections if need be. Astrogator The captain tells the astrogator where the ship has to go, the astrogator's job is to figure out how. The first officer's job is things inside the ship, mostly crackin' the whip to make sure the crew does their jobs.īut the first officer also has to draft the " watchbill", make sure the blasted ship is adequately stocked with life support and other supplies so you don't all suffocate or starve to death, keep an eyeball on those lazy engineers to make sure they are keeping up with maintenance and repairs, ensure that the vacuum moonshine 'still on Z deck (that you officially don't know about) is making just enough space booze to stave off boredom but not enough to endanger the ship, and otherwise keep up the beatings until the morale improves. Such as "fly to Deimos and load a cargo of water-ice" or "fly to Mars and drop bombs on those accurséd Arean Independence Revolutionaries." First Officer The captain's right-hand person. The captain's job is things outside of the ship, mostly where the ship is going and whatsit gonna do when it gets there. If the skipper of a Cosmi-Hauler Incorporated cargo ship fails to deliver the cargo on time the corporation will fire the captain's sorry behind. What kinda jobs are we lookin' at here? Well: Captain They are the absolute ruler of the spacecraft, their word is law.īut don't get the wrong idea, captains often have a boss as well. There are lots of critical jobs (or "hats") on a spacecraft, the more hats a given crewperson wears the lower will be their job performance. If your ship is bigger than a space taxi you gotta have more than one crewperson. Alright, space cadets! This is the way it is.
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