1) Both. An base umbilical is providing a clean and grey water feeds, plus a power boost to facilitate the maintenance cycle together with local media and base comm feeds.BackworldTraveller wrote: ↑Thu Feb 24, 2022 7:47 am
1) On arrival she takes a quick look around and checks the power status. Is the ship on local power or ground supply?
2) She also flips on the internal camera system for the hold. and hopes it works
3) She also checks out the weapon system control panel What weapons does this ship actually have?
4) and trains the navigation telescope on the weapons bunker - at this range the issue is dialling it down so you can see the bigger picture! Is there anything to see? e.g. gigawatt rated power cables leading in? Comms Dishes for missile guidance? Those peripherals that (if broken) make the installation useless?
5) She also brings up the external feed she plugged in so it's displayed on the bridge monitors Hopefully there's no evidence of anything on that
6)Finally, she'll check the computer -
- testing to see if she can gain access and control?
2) She eventually finds this. Apparently (or ironically) Anti Hijack was not an onboard priority system.
3) The Viper's Nest shows three batteries: two triple turrets with mid tech pulse lasers, one triple turret with mid tech HE missiles and one triple turret with mid tech sand-casters.
4) The berm walls are of such a height (to protect the shipping within) that there is no LOS to the Starport or even Flak towers.
5) Where have you left this and what and where is the "front end"? NB Outside of the berm is ~200m+ away. If outside this might give you something of what you wanted from 4) but that's surely 250m of cable and going back outside.
6) Freya finds a live console and, given this "in" and her skill is able to soon "create" herself and give access as a new bridge crew member in the system. She has basic access to bridge officer level aspects of ship command and control. This does not yet equate to "Master and Commander" access.
Thankfully Freya knows "stuff" (that quite reasonably) the "biofreight" don't:
suddenly taking off from a Starport without notice of intent usually causes alarm and distress to (among a select and distinguished list): close orbital air traffic, system ship traffic, the Starport authority, the passengers (if any) and whoever holds unpaid bar tabs. Any and all of these folk might seek to rely on the local law/military, then Starport, planetary and even orbital anti ship batteries to pursue their lien on the defaulters.
there are reasons that 400t freighters aren't single seat operations. The first is that otherwise they would be! Even single seat XBoats driven by the pros still have to rely on tenders! It will be incredibly difficult to lift this freighter with no ground crew and minimal flight crew albeit Freya is the full "bridge package" as Pilot/Navigator/Sensor Ops. However, it is a ship designed for two or three bridge crew plus an Engineer (or two). This ship is not a scout optimised for solo operation.
mountains as LZ terrain is not usually on the preferred list. Mountains with a war going on in them are even more off the list! Of course a very "scouty" Scout could no doubt pull it off - or at least crash land it. Actually when they usually do this kinda stuff it's usually with dedicated ground liaison and support. In layman's terms you are going to try to put down a Douglas Dakota (cum Landing Ship/Craft Tank) in an alpine meadow.
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