Ship Workshop/Maker Shop

[coliver988]

One nice thing that the Maker concept solves is the mystery of how a tramp trader's engineering crew can "duct tape and bailing wire" patch up very-high-tech systems that really ought to need more than literal duct tape and bailing wire to fix.

and also that plays nicely into QREBS: maker-produced stuff from the ship probably have a lower set of values across the board.

 

[Baroun Tardis]

and also that plays nicely into QREBS: maker-produced stuff from the ship probably have a lower set of values across the board.

If you consider EBS as part of the design, and QR as materials-per-spec, then this really works out

I'm looking at Book 1, page 172, and Q5 is "6 months between reliability drop", so at most 2 reliability drops in an annual-maintenace thing. I'm figuring (based on airplanes) that the actual Q is probably 7 (2 years) and you do annuals to make sure you have a buffer.

But what if that plasma conduit is Q7 because of the special heat treating, and your Maker won't do that? And you don't have the precise alloy the factory used? If the Maker produces a Q3 (weeks) plasma conduit, then every jump the reliability goes down.... until, "Cap'n, it's blown again! We gotta get a real one, these jury rigs aren't making it"

 

[mike wightman]

And as if by magic yet another opportunity for an adventure presents itself...

 

[Ulsyus]

Note- biologicals makers are a thing - they can build synthetic bodies and organs, grow clone bodies and organs and function as an autodoc of its own TL.

The most straightforward bio-maker would be the device in the galley used by the steward to fabricate meat.

 

[Spinward Flow]

The most straightforward bio-maker would be the device in the galley used by the steward to fabricate meat.

Carniculture.

 

[Condottiere]

Pink slime (also known as lean finely textured beef or LFTB,[1] finely textured beef,[2] or boneless lean beef trimmings or BLBT[3]) is a meat by-product used as a food additive to ground beef and beef-based processed meats, as a filler, or to reduce the overall fat content of ground beef.[4][5] As part of the production process, heat and centrifuges remove the fat from the meat in beef trimmings.[6] The resulting paste, without the fat, is exposed to ammonia gas or citric acid[7] to kill bacteria.[6] In 2001, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved the product for limited human consumption. The product, when prepared using ammonia gas, is banned for human consumption in the European Union[8] and Canada.[9][10]

 

[Deldarius]

Meat-Wiz tm !

The elder gods favorite treat. Available in our patented, portable Meat-Bags tm. Give a squeeze! Guaranteed to please!

 

[Spinward Flow]

Weird But Tasty™

Ask for it by name!

 

[Condottiere]

i(ce)(S)Cream

 

[Grav_Moped]

The most straightforward bio-maker would be the device in the galley used by the steward to fabricate meat.

Carniculture.

Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!

 

[kilemall]

Meat-Wiz tm !

The elder gods favorite treat. Available in our patented, portable Meat-Bags tm. Give a squeeze! Guaranteed to please!

I am so stealing this!

 

[Deldarius]

Vargr really love Groat-Stix tm (hot dogs), tucked into a sleeve of bread or powder coat it in our special blend of Starch-Wiz tm and deep fried (corn dogs).

 

[Condottiere]

Groat-Stix™ is KAY NINE!

 

[Deldarius]

KAY NINE?

Sounds like a name for an AI generated spokesperson for the ad campaign. I can see it done in the vein of Billy Mays.