I could have sworn the major was in the operations office.  Meanwhile, he was waiting patiently for her to Finnish and acknowledge him.

No worries, no, I figure, as my latest post suggests, that Jannsen caught the pair before she and James buggered off to her office.

So I realized a while back that a number of items on the utility belt, and survival vest are useless in the vacuum of space. So I might change your utility belt, and probably swap the survival/flotation vest with a vest that has built in strobe lights.

Meal bars: Can't eat in outer space without opening your visor, which will lead to exposure to the vacuum of space, which would then lead to character death.
Smoke Grenades: Well I guess they'll work in space.....
Individual 1st Aid Kit: If you really need this your cockpit is probably already breached, exposed to the vacuum of space, and your character is too. About the only thing you can do if struck by shrapnel that puts hole in your suit and you is slap a Space Suit Breach Patch on the hole and hope you don't bleed out before making an emergency landing. So yeah IFAK not really useful unless your in a place with atmosphere.
3 signal flares: Still useful to signal somebody after ejecting.
hand held radio: I guess if it has a port to plug your flight suits comm cord (which would normally be plugged into your mecha) into you can use it after ejecting. So still useful!

So I figure we'll replace the useless items with Space Suit Breach Patches. Going to still leave the IFAK since you might still need it.

Maybe reserve 02 tanks and more food and water. It might take a while to get picked up in the vastness of the void. Items that can keep you alive longer are a good thing.

space tiddlywinks?

In reply to Aksa Tikkanen (msg # 32):

If your escape pod is blown all to Hell and back by friend or foe.
This message was last edited by the player at 05:20, Sun 28 Oct 2018.

Every veritech has a bunch of survival gear, which is listed here: link to a message in this game


Yes friendly fire could occur....

The early model veritechs you have do not have ejectable escape pods. Yes the nose section can be manually removed by another battliod. If you want to eject your going the old fashioned way.

I believe the first VF to actually employ an escape pod ejection system is the VF-11 Thunderbolt (Macross)

I think Meiko needs to have conversations with people.

Hi everyone, I'm playing Ansel Nygaard, an ES-11 Cat's Eye pilot! Just wanted to introduce myself and say hello. I'm working on my character with Darkside Trooper and hopefully will be able to get into the game in the next couple of days :D

Hail and well met, glad to have you!

Welcome in!

Meiko is packing, should I post that?  Her packing doesn't take much time, she still just has a mostly empty sea bag.  O_O

Might be good to figure out who wants to bunk with whom, although I think Meiko will have to pick an NPC femme. I think there two Spaniard's and one Aussie.

Aussie I guess.

Sorry Meiko your gonna have to room with one of the following NPC's. They all like boys BTW.

• Teniente Marcela "Macarena" Vasquez, SPAF
• 2nd Lt Cate Robbie, UN SPACY (former RAAF)
• Alférez Yolanda Delgado, SPAF

You can make a post packing if you want.

As for the male characters you do have some choices....
Captain James "JADAM" McIntyre
2nd Lieutenant Ethan Ambrose
2nd Lieutenant Jack O'Neil
Lt. Douglas Jennsen

Ok, Cate sounds good.

Spanish is one of the languages she does not speak!

Just throw Douglas in with whomever.  He won't care much.
[Private to Darkside Trooper: Douglas speaks Spanish.]

In reply to Douglas Jennsen (msg # 46):

I figure why split up the two Spaniards?

I suppose I'll be bunking with Rykov, him being my Right Seat, and all.

Right Seat?

In reply to Meiko Levina (msg # 49):

He's my Copilot/Electronic Warfare Officer on our Cat's Eye. Technically, it's a tandem cockpit, but you can still call them "Right Seat" as if it were a side-by-side cockpit, since it's not a fighter.

In reply to Ansel Nygaard (msg # 50):

Ahhhhh

Cool bit of knowledge.

I've got a lot of IRL military and civilian aviation experience ^_^