On Fri, 2 Aug 2013, Onno Meyer wrote:
The mothership gets a gaggle of little workbees and a few dedicated
SAR bees. What other specialist models? Or just those two?
I guess so, but i have not really thought things through.
Overall it seems the meta design spec, "involve the pcs", clashes with how
much can be done more cheaply by robotic drones. And i guess feeling
better, if there is a human on board, who can panically pull some levers,
if something fails, or wanting a dead pilot to be responsible for
insurance reasons, does not make that much more manned missions.
Finding out what happened, repairing stuff and moving stuff, that does not
go into standard slots (crew members for instance, especially injured
ones) seem to be the tasks, where you most likely need humans. And unless
the crew of the rescued vessel is inoperative, they should be able to do
all that.
So it seems, that while a sort of a bridgehead for robotic missions could
propably make sense, my original idea of it being a base for diverse pc
missions does not work that well.
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