Space Horse

by TheMajorTechie


Ranell: Sheet Metal and Shuttles

Seems like Gadget and Delmar got a pretty big beating from the collision. From what I've read, Gadget's essentially waiting for nothing but sheet metal and other supplies, so I guess I'll try to speed things along over on my side.

Of course, there's also the whole deal going on with trying to find a cheap and reliable shuttle service to rescue Gadget and Delmar. Space-X has a huge backlog of launches for the next year at the least, and our current pick, SpaceLiner, still won't have any open spots for the next week and a half.

We could also attempt to downsize even further and just use a cheap unmanned shuttle, but it would be much harder to work out a flight path than to simply have a driver guide the shuttle like they normally do with the commercial models.

There's also the problem of a rendezvous point. Even if we do choose a commercial 'craft, we'd still be limited to a small number of meetup locations, due to the orbits of satellites and such all occurring so close to each other. In that case, we'd have to wait for a certain point in time to properly launch and meet with the space station, and wait once again for another opportunity to return.

...And this is why most tourist shuttles just fly low-Earth. Close enough to space, but very little conflict over paths.

What I'm saying is, there's just no simple way to rescue Gadget and Delmar. They're stranded in a hard-to-reach place, and we're down here, literally waiting for an available time to open up just to fire a tin can into the sky.

I guess I'll just get back to preparing our first delivery...