1/4/05

Notes on Whaler's Village

• Greenhands signed on for 3-4 years
• Given $70 sea chest with only $25 value
• At the end of the cruise, they ended up owing money and had to sign up again.
• Given substandard shirts, had to repatch.
• Complete boredom
  • Weeks of inactivity followed by danger
    • FOOD!
    • Cockroaches
    • Mutiny
• Hawaii's people sought after
  • $200 bond
  • Back in 3 years
  • Captains forfeited bonds
  • Crew were pliable

Think space lanes

• Colonists on a FTL experimental drive
• Crew is non-technical, left behind by scientists
• 200 years later, discovered by non-FTL explorers
• At home in space, not a planet
• No clue as to how FTL drive worked
• Extremely adept at fixing engines
• Not very ambitious

The hardship here is time dilation

What is the cargo that they are hauling?

• Dangerous
• Hard to find
• Hard to process

Radiation exposure on the mother ships has to be a constant threat.

Drugs? Smuggling?

Cockroaches:

• 600% more immune to radiation than man
• Able to hid in hot spots
• They don't mutate as much as evolve
• Come out at night to play

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