If these devices don't have that feature, I can do the charting on my slate computer. It's kind of a hobby of mine, doing star charts by hand, and I can probably turn that skill to planetside cartography easily enough. Not that we're planetside, exactly, but you take my meaning.
I wonder if your transfer points take you into what we call L-space! We have safe routes, safe places to drop in and out. We call them the lines. They're useful, but they can be dangerous, because if someone wants to attack a starship, they know which systems to lurk in, lying in wait for a ship to drop out of L-space - and at that point, most of the crew will be under sedation to prevent the space sickness. The similarities really are interesting, but maybe they shouldn't surprise us. The fundamental nature of reality remains the same wherever you are.
The idea of one person wiping out a fleet is... quite terrifying to me, I won't lie - but if I'm understanding correctly, that fleet could be automated itself, so there wouldn't be hundreds of lives lost on every ship. I actually didn't plan on being an astrogator. I wanted a place on a ship with a good captain; I found that ship and a trainee astrogator was what they needed, so that's what I did. I love it, though, so it worked well for me.
My crew were brilliant. My mentor, Lieutenant Savitskaya, looked out for me from the first; our captain knew exactly how to balance profit with duty to the colonies, and I had good friends there. It ended, about a month ago. Captain Kavarai had to return to his homeworld, and sell the ship. I got stuck on Siduri Station trying to find someone else to take contract with, and now I'm here, I guess.
Congratulations on your independence! Ours was a century back, but we still celebrate Liberation Day every year. And congratulations on your house, for that matter. I was saving up for a starship of my own, because I was very ambitious back home, and you can't advance to captain if you don't own your own ship. You can imagine how it was for me, seeing that shipyard and having all that choice!
It's so good to correspond with you. We're all isolated here, so even if we're in competition, I don't think there's any harm in being social. I hope we'll get to have a drink together someday.
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I wonder if your transfer points take you into what we call L-space! We have safe routes, safe places to drop in and out. We call them the lines. They're useful, but they can be dangerous, because if someone wants to attack a starship, they know which systems to lurk in, lying in wait for a ship to drop out of L-space - and at that point, most of the crew will be under sedation to prevent the space sickness. The similarities really are interesting, but maybe they shouldn't surprise us. The fundamental nature of reality remains the same wherever you are.
The idea of one person wiping out a fleet is... quite terrifying to me, I won't lie - but if I'm understanding correctly, that fleet could be automated itself, so there wouldn't be hundreds of lives lost on every ship.
I actually didn't plan on being an astrogator. I wanted a place on a ship with a good captain; I found that ship and a trainee astrogator was what they needed, so that's what I did. I love it, though, so it worked well for me.
My crew were brilliant. My mentor, Lieutenant Savitskaya, looked out for me from the first; our captain knew exactly how to balance profit with duty to the colonies, and I had good friends there. It ended, about a month ago. Captain Kavarai had to return to his homeworld, and sell the ship.
I got stuck on Siduri Station trying to find someone else to take contract with, and now I'm here, I guess.
Congratulations on your independence! Ours was a century back, but we still celebrate Liberation Day every year.
And congratulations on your house, for that matter. I was saving up for a starship of my own, because I was very ambitious back home, and you can't advance to captain if you don't own your own ship.
You can imagine how it was for me, seeing that shipyard and having all that choice!
It's so good to correspond with you. We're all isolated here, so even if we're in competition, I don't think there's any harm in being social. I hope we'll get to have a drink together someday.