Secrets of the Lost Ark - Part 3
What are the things people need to survive? Food, water, shelter. Let’s take Ark IV as kind of the median. The command crew landed the cargo compartment and returned to the crew compartment with the newly awakened colonists to get some help.
On the planet Hades, it is very cold so most of the revived colonists huddled in the crew compartment until their arrival. A team returned back to the cargo compartment with a handful of power rods and began unloading equipment. I’m sure that advanced group went to their lockers and got their coats first, before even unloading one item.
The first pieces of equipment unloaded were the transports which, as mentioned above, were “inflated” when activated by the power rods. These were flat bed trucks good for hauling the rest of the equipment.
Here the sequence of unloading deviates a little bit. In Rome's Revolution, Captain Keller and his Darwin brethren were going to go to war so they chose to unload the weapons first. In the case of Ark IV, they were more practical because there was no one attacking them (yet!). They used the transports to return to the crew compartment and retrieve the rest of the colonists and ferry them to the cargo compartment to help with the unloading process.
The first thing the Ark IV unloaded were the insulated tents, another round of rations, water and thin polymer sacks. The sacks would be filled with leaves (or whatever passed for leaves on that world), humus, detritus, anything to form a kind of mattress. The colonists would set up a tent city in the shadow of the spacecraft as a base of operations.
Once that was done, one transport was dispatched back to the crew compartment to retrieve the remainder of the power rods. The rest would begin scouting operations to find a more permanent place for the settlement, candidates for farmland, woods if possible and so on. Yet another contingent would be sent out to find a sustainable source of fresh water.
By the end of the first week, if all went according to plan, they would already have plowed some ground, planted some seeds, set up the animal incubators and placed some thawed embryos in them. The rest of the crew either begin harvesting materials to build more permanent quarters or, an alternative, begin clearing out a section of woods to build cabins and such.
That takes care of shelter. Tomorrow: food.
On the planet Hades, it is very cold so most of the revived colonists huddled in the crew compartment until their arrival. A team returned back to the cargo compartment with a handful of power rods and began unloading equipment. I’m sure that advanced group went to their lockers and got their coats first, before even unloading one item.
The first pieces of equipment unloaded were the transports which, as mentioned above, were “inflated” when activated by the power rods. These were flat bed trucks good for hauling the rest of the equipment.
Here the sequence of unloading deviates a little bit. In Rome's Revolution, Captain Keller and his Darwin brethren were going to go to war so they chose to unload the weapons first. In the case of Ark IV, they were more practical because there was no one attacking them (yet!). They used the transports to return to the crew compartment and retrieve the rest of the colonists and ferry them to the cargo compartment to help with the unloading process.
The first thing the Ark IV unloaded were the insulated tents, another round of rations, water and thin polymer sacks. The sacks would be filled with leaves (or whatever passed for leaves on that world), humus, detritus, anything to form a kind of mattress. The colonists would set up a tent city in the shadow of the spacecraft as a base of operations.
Once that was done, one transport was dispatched back to the crew compartment to retrieve the remainder of the power rods. The rest would begin scouting operations to find a more permanent place for the settlement, candidates for farmland, woods if possible and so on. Yet another contingent would be sent out to find a sustainable source of fresh water.
By the end of the first week, if all went according to plan, they would already have plowed some ground, planted some seeds, set up the animal incubators and placed some thawed embryos in them. The rest of the crew either begin harvesting materials to build more permanent quarters or, an alternative, begin clearing out a section of woods to build cabins and such.
That takes care of shelter. Tomorrow: food.
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