Good luck with the move JR, what a pain!

As of now, I'm officially a Houstonian (or at least, in the area). I still have to move my stuff, but that's happening in the morning.

Houston!  Wow, that's quite a move from San Antonio!

220 miles or so, not too bad ;-)

Congrats on the move!

Thanks! :-)

Glad the move went well.

Actives?

Active sensors "Actives" - radar and lidar

Passive sensors "Passives" - various detectors that cover the electromagnetic spectrum's useful range from gamma radiation to ELF radio, to include external cameras.

In reply to JR (msg # 329):

Gotcha...

Anything on the scans from orbit that might indicate a military emplacement in the direction from which we were fired upon?
This message was last edited by the player at 05:32, Mon 02 Apr 2018.

Nope, not a peep. Of course, you can't detect passive scanners...

Would the radar we detected be able to pick up land vehicles or a group traveling on foot?

Gareth's displays call it a standard air search radar, so, unless you're talking a large vehicle, probably not. People, almost certainly not, but you don't want to get caught in the beam at anything inside 300 meters from the emitter - it will cook you.

Whomever goes outside will have to wear at least a vacc suit, or, preferably, some sort of armor. Also, please indicate what weapons and other gear you're talking along.

I believe Naimh will stay with the ship.

Based on the strength of the emitter can we approximate a distance to the source?

I don't think that the group of us from Egg have much in terms of possessions other than our vacc suits and clothing we were wearing.  Do we have a list of weapons and such onboard the ship?
This message was last edited by the player at 02:19, Wed 25 Apr 2018.

When you went aboard the station at Khesanadu, you picked up a dozen sets of combat armor, plus military rifles, pistols, and ammo. There are also four sets of light armor and civilian weapons that Joxe obtained when she was provisioning Wanderer years ago.

So, everyone gets a full kit.

In what direction did we pick up the signal and get a missile shot at us?

Northwest, past the closest dome.

Any magnification with the HUD to get a better look at the hole?

At 4x zoom (the best the helmet cam can manage), the hole punches straight through the dome's clear composite. The material is cracked and crazed for a meter around the hole, and a lip of slag shows at the bottom third.

Are there other buildings in the dome?  Is there an entrance to the building we are nearest to?  Did the beam or bolt that cut through the dome wall continue into the security building?  Is there light inside the dome?

Yes, this dome is one of four that housed a town of a thousand or so residents, so there are other buildings around the security building. There is no light beside the dim sunlight through the dome, and you can't tell where the damage ends.

That makes sense.

To make sure I understand...

We are in a building inside the dome having crawled in through a hole blasted in the side of said building.  We've seen two robots, one of which fired at us and the other moved off to one side.

Is that right?

Correct. :-)