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Most of you are already familiar with this project. The Fat Cat is a starship supplement book for the TRAVELLER RPG that TRAQ and I have been working on for about a year now.
With the Kickstarter fund raiser now moments away from closing, I'm tasked with writing an "Owners manual" for the ship. I have a general Idea of what needs to go in it (see below), but I figured id give you guys (since the majority of those who have pledged so generously are also members of this message board) the opportunity to make sure the things your expecting are in the owners manual.
So here's where you get to sound off.
We intend to make the book look as much like a "typical" users manual as possible. Including depictions of user interfaces that only vaguely resemble the holo-terminal floating before you. Not to mention all the useless Tech Support contact information that will take weeks/months/years to hear back from.
Here's the basic Outline:
Safety instructions: Space, its a dangerous place. And sophants are prone to doing dumb things. This section will cover all the things you should NEVER DO! Form general spacer stuff to ship specific information.
Normal usage instructions: This is general operating procedures. Such as instructions on operating the many systems you will find on board.
Maintenance instructions: Technobabble on how to fix the gizmo fluff gadgets.
Troubleshooting instructions: So you accidentally deleted the Navigational sensor readout display panel. Here's how you bring it back up.
Regulatory code compliance information: Just because they don't have a lot of rules, doesn't mean they don't enforce ever last one of them. These are the common sense regulations all Ship masters will have to abide by when operating a ship within Versian controlled space.
Technical specifications: Gizmo fluff.
Warranty information: This is where the Starwright's Guild tells you what your not allowed to do to the various systems of the ship or they will not pay to fix them.
With the Kickstarter fund raiser now moments away from closing, I'm tasked with writing an "Owners manual" for the ship. I have a general Idea of what needs to go in it (see below), but I figured id give you guys (since the majority of those who have pledged so generously are also members of this message board) the opportunity to make sure the things your expecting are in the owners manual.
So here's where you get to sound off.
We intend to make the book look as much like a "typical" users manual as possible. Including depictions of user interfaces that only vaguely resemble the holo-terminal floating before you. Not to mention all the useless Tech Support contact information that will take weeks/months/years to hear back from.
Here's the basic Outline:
Safety instructions: Space, its a dangerous place. And sophants are prone to doing dumb things. This section will cover all the things you should NEVER DO! Form general spacer stuff to ship specific information.
Normal usage instructions: This is general operating procedures. Such as instructions on operating the many systems you will find on board.
Maintenance instructions: Technobabble on how to fix the gizmo fluff gadgets.
Troubleshooting instructions: So you accidentally deleted the Navigational sensor readout display panel. Here's how you bring it back up.
Regulatory code compliance information: Just because they don't have a lot of rules, doesn't mean they don't enforce ever last one of them. These are the common sense regulations all Ship masters will have to abide by when operating a ship within Versian controlled space.
Technical specifications: Gizmo fluff.
Warranty information: This is where the Starwright's Guild tells you what your not allowed to do to the various systems of the ship or they will not pay to fix them.
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