A medium power drill for digging through rock and most tough minerals. And why? Well, we're in an asteroid, right? Dig to find things, get places, make shortcuts, build fortifications or pits, create a reservoir, find water, unearth anomalies, create shelter, etc.
Why would you need those things? Especially since lasers seem like they'd create long, narrow holes.
((We should have the following, I feel.
5 Solaire Photovoltaic Cell Arrays
No sunlight was expected--you're in an asteroid!
Well, yeah, but couldn't we set up a line to the outside? Less atmosphere to interfere with light reaching, after all.
...Why would the cells be brought into the asteroid, then?
2 Condenser Units
1 Heavy Duty Air Compressors
2 Portable Air Compressers
I'd imagined basic life-support built into your suits, but you can't live in them, now can you? Of course, it'll take more than air compression to get a breatheable atmosphere...but the Cart will have something of the sort when the next update rolls along.
Well of course it can't, but compressed air is useful for more than just breathing.
Were you thinking of things like the dart guns or am I missing stuff again?
3 GIT Industrial Vacuum and Multi-Terrain Construction Robots(v.20.16) (Red, Blue, Green) (Power: 45/45 Hours)
Construction? With what, and why on a temporary scout mission?
What is it you're imagining building?
A base of operations. I had imagined from the sound of it, that they might be needed to set up a port and do heavy lifting and the like for us, so we can get more supplies. I didn't realize we were a temp scout mission...If that's the case, why the 'Port?
So you can get back? And so more personnel can get down if needed. And so it's easier to send more missions down, although more Cargo Carts and such will still require the more expensive and difficult teleports.
2 Shovels
To dig what?
Whatever needs digging. I doubt it's entirely hard rock, if there's any atmosphere at all.
...True. Will be added.
2 Laser Torches
Huh?
Like a blowtorch, but cooler.
Ah.
Added.
2 Picks
I'll consider giving you one.
Good enough.
I've decided to definitely give you one. There's not going to be enough mining that you'd need another, especially if you get a laser drill to make things easier.
2 Portable Food Reclamators(Processes foreign matter or grown food into easily edible and nutritious bars; Waste matter is disposed of.)
There's already something like this.
But it's not portable, now is it?
It isn't
easily portable, but I can't think of any way to do it that would be.
5 Inflatable Pressure Tents (Air supply, Pressurized, Come with an 'airlock' door) (3 meters by 3 meters)
3 Pressure Tents (Air supply, needs to be set up and sealed, then pressurizes itself, no airlock door) (5 meters by 5 meters)
10 Self-Constructing Multi-Purpose Compact Modules (3 meters by 3 meters by 2.5 meters, pressurized)
4 Self-Constructing Multi-Purpose Standard Modules (8 meters by 8 meters by 3 meters pressurized, multiple rooms)
1 Self-Constructing All-Purpose Jumbo Module (15 meters by 25 meters by 10 meters, pressurized, multiple stories, multiple rooms)
Segmented Pressure Tubes (200 meters) (can connect pressurized environments)
That's a lot. I'll add some of it, at least.
First rule of haggling; ask for more than you want.
I'll keep that in mind for later demands.
3 Pressurized Rescue Balls
Not sure why I didn't think of something like that. Will be added.
Because you haven't been reading Orbital Vector enough.
Reading what?
Some explosives would be nice, as well as some kind of special or heavy weapon, like a turret or cannon, for defending the base or demolishing large obstacles.
I'm guessing that we're a bit uncertain as to the purpose of this mission. And possibly the setting.
Explosives are useful in scouting missions, what with getting rid of obstacles so you can continue. Bit over the top, of course.
Especially the heavy weapon.
some sort of sonar mapping device with relay pylons that we can plant as we go.
Something like that will be added.
Cool.
EDIT:EDIT: 1 Laser Drill :3
Which kind of drill and why?
2 Small ones, seem like handheld ones, to help with sample collections and when you need to cut through something really thick.
1 large one, like a jackhammer, for getting really big things out(we don't know what anomalies are or what causes them; ready for anything)
The small ones, definitely. The large one...I'll think about it.
2 large motion sensors
Some sort of motion sensors will be added.
Cool. I think we should have some small ones too.
Why would they need to be large, anyways?
Space to ground position beacon
I suspect that the rock above your heads would interfere with that...although some kind of ansible would be useful...
Do they exist in this setting?
Probably something based on quantum entanglement, yes. The theories are conceivable with current knowledge, there's probably a way to properly implement them. It also makes sense for the 'Ports.
25 Perimeter Sentry Posts
Were you thinking sensors or weapons?
Sensors, they make a net effect where anything crossing without authorization triggers an alert(not an alarm, just something to notify someone)
Perfectly acceptable.
1 Descending Drill Survey Bot (Power: 15/15 Hours)
Mind if I ask why?
See the size, composition, and cave patterns of the asteroid.
Great, now I need to figure out the third dimension...
500 meters of insulated light-duty wire, 200 meters insulated protected heavy duty wire and 20 Relay/Alternators/Transformers/Etc.))
Wire will be added, not quite sure what you mean by the last bit.
To be honest, neither was I. Some sort of all purpose seperator/relay.
Separator or relay for what?
In your answers, bear in mind that you are on a short-term scouting/research mission, and that the managers wouldn't have given you gear for anything else without a good justification.
Well now, how's that fun? I thought we were hired by a government as the best of the best. Wouldn't they humor us a bit?
Probably, but just hiring you and getting all this stuff sent to the asteroid (especially since they're planning on the assumption that they're not getting any of the material back) isn't cheap.
Also, could you explain the setting a bit more?
Science-fiction, presumably under some sort of hegemony of Earth but with colonies across the habitable worlds in the Solar System and several uninhabitable ones. The tech is fairly hard sci-fi, with some bending of the laws of reality. Of course, the anomalies are sci-fi softened almost to the point of goo, but no one has figured out how to harness the Anomalies yet. (In part because the ones up top are pretty minor.) Does that answer your questions?
