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1. Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 (nyrath@spacey.space)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 22:44:30 JST Winchell Chung ⚛🚀

   Your scifi world building idea for the day: mega scrap town

   Brain storming sessions like this are why I miss Google Plus

   https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/starshipowner.php#shipbreakers

   #MegaScrapTown

   • Chris Hopkins (cbehopkins@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 22:44:17 JST Chris Hopkins

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     • Galbinus Caeli 🌯

     @SkipHuffman @nyrath do the locals have the tools to dismantle it. Can their oxy-acetylene torch cut through hull plating. Can they get their hands on a USB4<->USBq adaptor to open the door?
     Could DRM reer it's ugly head?

   • Chris Hopkins (cbehopkins@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 22:44:17 JST Chris Hopkins

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     • Galbinus Caeli 🌯

     @SkipHuffman @nyrath
     What about tech they don't understand: it reminds me of the thought experiment of a Victorian engineer who discovers a nuclear power station: they think they understand how it all works. (steam plant, generator gear, all well understood) and trace back to where the heat comes from.
     Huh! It's just a lot of carbon and heavy metal here. Why would this get warm? And why am I seeing flashes in front of my eyes.

   • Galbinus Caeli 🌯 (skiphuffman@astrodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 22:44:29 JST Galbinus Caeli 🌯

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     @nyrath consider what is being salvaged from the wreck and what it's being used for. If its usable components, you need a shipyard nearby(flux capacitors don't do a logging town much good). If it's a commodity that can be used locally, how quickly does the market saturate. (After the first hundred tonnes, steel plating is less valuable. ) Does the salvage spoil. (Frozen meat pies, oh yes, novelty Garfield clocks, not so much.) How often do wrecks happen? Once? Or pretty often?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 22:44:56 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Chris Hopkins
     • Galbinus Caeli 🌯

     @cbehopkins @SkipHuffman @nyrath I'm imagining a lot of graffiti like "don't go to level 5. My hair is falling out, and can't keep any food down" and a skeleton somewhere nearby.

     Now it sounds like a video game. It might be a fun one, actually: you're sent into various derelict/crashed ships to try to find specific parts.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 17-Sep-2023 22:45:53 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Chris Hopkins
     • Galbinus Caeli 🌯

     @cbehopkins @SkipHuffman @nyrath you'd have missions like "most of the easy to get to stuff is long gone, but Xlavis needs a new flux coil and that Star Destroyer might have one" and because you're not the first junker, it's full of notes from previous visitors/inhabitants about various dangers