Morning from Roy, WA Rupert and kaladorn,

> On 10/11/2020 12:05 AM Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 11Oct2020 1939, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
> > 10 hours is more like what I'd have thought. In MT, you could probably
> > (unless the task was invariant in some way) be able to take a cautious
> > approach, drop difficulty to Easy (3+) and just take 20 hours. Given
> > MT's higher skill levels as a rule, Routine isn't all that dangerous
> > and you aren't going to easily score an exceptional failure even at
> > Routine.
> At routine (7+) and a half-decent flight team (I'd allow pilot and
> astrogator to work together to use the best in each skill) for say a
> total of +3, you need a 4+ (though that does still leave 2 as an
> exceptional failure). The problem is that it's hazardous, so that
> snake-eyes messes you up no matter what.
> >
> > I'm curious what ocean refueling means... am I floating my ship? Or am
> > I hovering on grav and just letting a big vacuum tube down?  Can I
> > land on a nice sandy beach and suck from the lagoon? How about an
> > inland freshwater lake? Or even (scandal) someone's remote reservoir?
> > And there's not exactly much to say about the effects of taints, the
> > odds of sucking up flaura, fauna or soils/bacteria, etc.
> I'd assume you're floating, or parked on a beach. Hovering would be
> /possibl//e/ in a ship with contragrav, but probably hard on the systems
> and asking for 'exciting' mishaps if things go bad. As for contaminants,
> that's when interesting taints, sea monsters getting jammed in the pump
> intakes, and so on, come into play.

MT Imperial Encyclopedia (Book3?) p. 88 "...The process" of ocean refueling "calls for a ship to land in or near an ocean and fill its tanks from the local water supply. It takes approximately four hours and results in fuel tanks filled with unrefined fuel...."

Tom Rux