On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 03:27:19PM -0600, MoonHunter wrote: >So they are going in with >special biohazard protocol (i.e. the suit has to be >decontammed before allowed back in their ship.) This >does make it harder to do many horror things, as there >is no way to get them casually isolated. Fair point. I assume they'd be using normal biohazard suits for this rather than spacesuits, since they'll have to be inside and the things are rather bulky. >You will have a first contact person shipped with you >(or someone with a special first contact training with >radio support from a Fire Team on duty that mission). >So they will treat any critter as an alien. They will >probably be the first lunch. Which organisations are training people for that sort of job? (I'm happy to have one along, but I want to know a plausible background...) >Your best bet is a "doorway" scenario. Somehow a gate/ >portal/ warp opens and spirits your PCs away to >somewhere else (or lets something in and out of the >station). While playing hunt and seek in a ship or >station can be fun, the players can just head for any >airlock OR suit up and explosively decompress out of >the station (picked up by your ship). (In fact, the >worse case kit that each member should have, should >include explosives for just such an occasion). As far as I know the Shuttle EVA suits still require prebreathing pure oxygen to avoid decompression sickness. (Though the bends may well be better than being eaten by Horrible Monsters.) >If nothing can be directly found or easily understood, >they will spend YEARS isolating the place bit by bit. >Space scientists are nortoreously cautious that way. >So you might have to create a "ticking bomb" some kind >of deadline that has to be met or "something terrible >will happen". Well, the ISS' orbit is low enough for the Shuttle to reach it, so it's not exactly stable - someone's going to have to nudge it upwards every now and then. Good thoughts; many thanks. -- Roger, gaming grognard Lots of role-playing stuff: http://tekeli.li/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
