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One other thing to bear in mind is that not all ships need to have one crewman per ton.
Trees, or an equivalent amount of plants take 7 or 8 per person for sustainability I believe. I am not too up on Soelljammer these days, is that doable?Big Mac wrote: ↑Tue Jun 12, 2018 1:20 amOne thing nobody has mentioned yet, is that you can buy plants and put them on a ship.
Plants make air. Buy enough plants and they will make as much air as a person breathes. Buy edible plants and they also work as a back-up food supply.
I believe there may also be mosses that create air...or maybe light.
in SJ, it requires 5 square feet (edit: one 5 foot square) per (medium) person.Seethyr wrote: ↑Tue Jun 12, 2018 2:41 amTrees, or an equivalent amount of plants take 7 or 8 per person for sustainability I believe. I am not too up on Soelljammer these days, is that doable?Big Mac wrote: ↑Tue Jun 12, 2018 1:20 amOne thing nobody has mentioned yet, is that you can buy plants and put them on a ship.
Plants make air. Buy enough plants and they will make as much air as a person breathes. Buy edible plants and they also work as a back-up food supply.
I believe there may also be mosses that create air...or maybe light.
The sort of mathematics that you applied to weapons could probably help here.Jaid wrote: ↑Tue Jun 12, 2018 8:41 amin SJ, it requires 5 square feet (edit: one 5 foot square) per (medium) person.Seethyr wrote: ↑Tue Jun 12, 2018 2:41 amTrees, or an equivalent amount of plants take 7 or 8 per person for sustainability I believe. I am not too up on Soelljammer these days, is that doable?Big Mac wrote: ↑Tue Jun 12, 2018 1:20 amOne thing nobody has mentioned yet, is that you can buy plants and put them on a ship.
Plants make air. Buy enough plants and they will make as much air as a person breathes. Buy edible plants and they also work as a back-up food supply.
I believe there may also be mosses that create air...or maybe light.
whether or not that is an achievable goal depends largely on how closely your DM compares various ship deckplans, and which hull you have (not gonna go into details here, but some ship deckplans give a heck of a lot more space per SJ ton than others)
Actually, plants won't care. Plants don't care about the lack of gravity either. NASA, ESA, etc has done a lot of cool things in regards to this kind of research, and the general answer has been "plants do some strange things we don't expect, but are pretty much unfazed by it." Reverse gravity would just be like normal gravity to pretty much any normal plant. Side note: moss in zero-gravity likes to grow into weird spirals that, if I am remembering correctly, are radially symmetrical.
I would argue it could be done. Ever seen the black cloth-like ground covering used in gardening? Take something like that to form a hanging ball of dirt for a plant to grow in, with the only outlets being where the plants grow out from it and you could make a working hanging basket that would flip around when gravity planes change without too much trouble? Similarly, you could probably put a hard covering on, say, tree pots to keep dirt in, though that wouldn't work for most soft plants, it might for trees.the thing is, it doesn't just keep you from going to round planets... it keeps you from flying above or near anything bigger than you, including other ships and space stations. you come in 5 feet above the gravity plane on bral, and there goes your reverse deck plants... you come in 5 feet below, and there goes your regular gravity deck plants.
most things you can just secure in place; you can strap a barrel to a wall, store things in footlockers bolted to the floor or in bags in cargo nets etc (and most likely, that is one of the things that experienced wildspace crews do that gives them their bonuses, while green wildspace crews most likely forget a thing here and there until it becomes habit that you don't leave your hairbrush and mirror sitting on your desk, you store them away; you don't like the inkwell open, you seal it; and for the love of all that is holy, the chamber pot has a lid for a *reason*. you can't really just hold all the dirt in place in a plant pot, even a hanging one.