<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=148593.msg6734810#msg6734810">Quote from: Zillah on 09-08-2012, 18:59:03</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Dr. Chance, reporting for duty. And she calls dibs on Lena as a fuck buddy. :)<br/><br/>As a heads-up, I'm not going to be around this weekend or the early part of next week. I'm taking a short trip to Johannesburg ... think I'll almost be spending the same amount of time flying there and back as actually being there. :P It'll be worth it, though ...<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>As long as Dasha is okay with that... ;) I think I mentioned that the chance of every "couple" being selected is remote, though, so i would apreciate it if we could have a few single folks with no prior commitments...? Think of the fun you'll have pairing up... *winks*<br/><br/>Z, I hope you have a wonderful time, and give T a big kiss for me - after you have totally exhausted the pretty little Ukranian of course!<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=148593.msg6734906#msg6734906">Quote from: Blinkin on 09-08-2012, 19:19:01</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Lt. Commander works for Laura, she always wanted to have more stripes than scars.... and it makes sense to me.<br/><br/>I could see some conflict there, yes. "You ordered me to kiss you Ma'am, I feel compelled to follow orders..." ;) It could also be a rather interesting storythread for them if they remain... close.<br/><br/>"Hey Doc... what's this slick stuff on the bottom of my boot? I was walking on the 6th sub level, and it's a layer all over the floor about an 1/8th inch thick... oil/ Really? wow..."<br/><br/>I suppose that we could use a chaplin of some kind, but it may be counter productive if you want a good gene pool... BTW, I saw a NASA research paper on the net once that theorized that the minimum number of couples to make a viable, perminent colony on a planet is 150 couples. You can do it with as few as 70 couples, but you hit the inbreeding thing after about 15 generations. The numbers may be off as it's been years since I saw it... anyone ever see the Time Magazine issue about terraforming Mars? It was back in the late 1980's. We had the tools, but no way to get them to mars... it would take about 150 years.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Chaplain, shmaplain. Under international law, the commander of a vessel at sea is allowed to perform marriage ceremonies. I'm extending that to the commander of an extra terrestrial base.<br/><br/>Please note, that religion is deliberately omitted from the character sheet. If anyone feels strongly about this, they are more than welcome to have their character pray to whatever god they like, however there will be no officially organised religion on Mars - not at first, anyway.<br/><br/>Don't forget, we have at least two more waves of 75 colonists arriving within the next ten years.... Subsequent waves could actually be larger as the colony expands. 75 is the maximum that the base can support at it's present size.<br/><br/>Oh... an odd number. Anyone up for a ménage a trois? *giggles*<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=148593.msg6734938#msg6734938">Quote from: Blinkin on 09-08-2012, 19:25:12</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Proposed equipment list for Security (not a complete list)<br/><br/>Security Armoury supplies:<br/><br/>15 personal sidearms<br/>10 sub-machine guns (W/ suppressors<br/>3 clips per weapon<br/>20 set reusable restraints<br/>15 tasers<br/>3,000 rounds ammunition<br/>15 martian red patterned environmental suit overalls<br/>15 sets body armor<br/>15 stun batons<br/>15 sets secure communication units<br/>Security uniforms and equipment belts<br/>*Various investigative tools<br/><br/>* assumption is that the scientific and medical equipment could be used for criminal investigations, when necessary to avoid redundancy of equipment to be transported.<br/><br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Works for me.