General What can you get in your Ship's Library?

[Spinward Scout]

Here's an update of everyone's input|:

Ship's Library

Search Request
- you should be able to customize the Update to look for information you request.

Personal message system
- Crew
- Passenger

System Comm Directory (Phone Book)

System Info Data
- Space weather
- Navigation data update
- Navigation program subscriptions (Jump tape updates)
- Local in-flight IFF codes

Imperial Encyclopedia service
- previous Worlds (stored from past)
- current World (star system) update
- Surrounding systems update

Traveller's Aid Society
- TAS Warnings
- TAS travel guides

WikiGalactiPedia
- WikiGalactiFrakinPedia (WGFP).

Subscriptions
- Netflix
- Interstellar Astrographic
- PlaySophont subscription
- Michelin guide
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Imperium (HHGTTI)

Solomani Sphere Book Checkout service
- "The Man who Sold the Moon" and "Requiem" by Robert Heinlein
- Captain Gilbert Buchanan of the "Delos David Harriman" GS771907, now out of Fergus (RD 2014)

Recreational (Video) Games

TriDotube entertainment
- "Live" Newscasts (subject to lightspeed lag in communications and comm signal strength)
- The Old And The Anagathic

Broker Feed
- Cargo speculation
- Market updates

 

[Grav_Moped]

Michelin sells grav modules?

Vacc Suits.

Very bulky Vacc Suits.

 

[Spinward Scout]

Vacc Suits.

Very bulky Vacc Suits.

It's the Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man.

 

[coliver988]

realized I have a patch from an old Kickstarter that fits the library idea:

 

[Timerover51]

Asteroid Mining for Beginners.
The Preface starts with: "First you find your asteroid."

 

[whulorigan]

Told to be quiet by the Ship's Librarian?

I'll get my coat...

A daily Cr 0.1 fine for an overdue HoloVid . . .

 

[whartung]

Asteroid Mining for Beginners.
The Preface starts with: "First you find your asteroid."

...and get a bag of marbles.

Each time you mine a new asteroid, remove one of the marbles.

When you've lost your marbles, you're an Asteroid Miner.

 

[Enoki]

Vacc Suits.

Very bulky Vacc Suits.

He's got competition from Goodyear

 

[Spenser TR]

Perhaps information about the ship - whatever the Steward decides is cool to share. Answers to any frequently asked questions about the ship ("What is that thumping sound?" "Why did the lights just dim?"), the journey, or whatever - nothing secret or sensitive, but helpful or entertaining things. A guest book or public passenger log/graffiti wall. Menus. Bio of the ship's cat.

 

[coliver988]

Perhaps information about the ship - whatever the Steward decides is cool to share. Answers to any frequently asked questions about the ship ("What is that thumping sound?" "Why did the lights just dim?"), the journey, or whatever - nothing secret or sensitive, but helpful or entertaining things. A guest book or public passenger log/graffiti wall. Menus. Bio of the ship's cat.

especially this cat's bio

 

[Timerover51]

especially this cat's bio

View attachment 7152

Ah, an orange Sinbad from the "Solar Queen".

 

[Spinward Scout]

A daily Cr 0.1 fine for an overdue HoloVid . . .

I don't think the Library program would let you be late.

 

[whulorigan]

I don't think the Library program would let you be late.

It would if the HoloVids were stored on removable Holocrystals or Wafers.

 

[Spinward Scout]

It would if the HoloVids were stored on removable Holocrystals or Wafers.

True. I just don't see an Interstellar society loaning those out like that. If you're clientele are prone to not bringing that kind of media back, the word would get out, and they wouldn't have much media left. Someone who knows they're not coming back to that World isn't going to worry about being tracked for a holodisc or such, and who is an interstellar murder hobo of sorts probably would swipe it.

Unless there's an Interstellar Library Cop.

 

[Spinward Scout]

Here's another update of everyone's input, in 16 different sections:

Ship's Library

Search Request
- you should be able to customize the Update to look for information you request.

Personal Message System
- Crew
- Passenger

Ship Information
- About this Ship
- Your Crew
- Bio of the Ship's Pet

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY
- Medic! — Essential in-space and groundside.
- Explosive Decompression — Emergency training mandatory
- VACC Suits — Variable Atmosphere Climate-Controlled suits

Ship's Help (or How to open your Stateroom door)
- The Steward's Menus
- Ship's Current Trajectory
- Ship's Current Destination

Shipboard FAQ's
- FAQ #1 "Why did the lights just dim?"
- FAQ #2 "What is that thumping sound?"
- The Steward's cool stories
- Michelin vs. Goodyear VACC suits

System Comm Directory (Phone Book)

System Info Data
- Space weather
- Navigation data update
- Navigation program subscriptions (Jump tape updates)
- Local in-flight IFF codes

Imperial Encyclopedia service
- Library Data Glossary
- Archive of Previous Worlds (stored from past)
- Current World (star system) update
- Surrounding systems information

Traveller's Aid Society
- TAS Warnings
- TAS Travel Guides

WikiGalactiPedia
- WikiGalactiFrakinPedia (WGFP).

Subscriptions
- Netflix
- Interstellar Astrographic
- PlaySophont subscription
- Michelin guide
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Imperium (HHGTTI)

Solomani Sphere Book Checkout service
- "The Man who Sold the Moon" and "Requiem" by Robert Heinlein
- Captain Gilbert Buchanan of the "Delos David Harriman" GS771907, now out of Fergus (RD 2014)
- Asteroid Mining for Beginners. The Preface starts with: "First you find your asteroid."

Recreational (Video) Games

TriDotube entertainment
- "Live" Newscasts (subject to lightspeed lag in communications and comm signal strength)
- The Old And The Anagathic

Broker Feed
- Market updates
- Passenger Request
- Crew Openings
- Cargo speculation

 

[King Midas]

Space weather

<<SNORT>>

 

[Grav_Moped]

Space weather
-

<<SNORT>>

Ye Moft Moderne fpace Almanack, 1107 Edition...

 

[kilemall]

True. I just don't see an Interstellar society loaning those out like that. If you're clientele are prone to not bringing that kind of media back, the word would get out, and they wouldn't have much media left. Someone who knows they're not coming back to that World isn't going to worry about being tracked for a holodisc or such, and who is an interstellar murder hobo of sorts probably would swipe it.

Unless there's an Interstellar Library Cop.

Oooooo I smell a new org- bounty tickets for returns!!

The Librarians, an overfunded library material retrieval service that sports a widespread media entertainment trope where they go to illogical lengths to get checkouts back and late fees paid.

But that is cover for their real role.

They are actually charged with ensuring the real secrets of the Imperium never get out.

Returns, information retrieval, illegal checkouts, late fees, all code words that are actually about dangerous knowledge that can crack the Imperium more surely than Zhodani battlefleets.

This is part of the function of the Imperial Archive- collect dangerous knowledge, capture it and keep copy/proof so those that need to know, know, and the Imperium is not making decisions based on false data (particularly Agents), scrub it outside the Archive, and make sure no illicit ‘checkouts’ take place.

Side function, they provide the Library program through third party software companies and covertly track what is being accessed so they know who is interested in what information.

Your crew might encounter Librarians triggered by something a passenger or ex crew accessed. They will take great pains to not associate their visit with your library program or the archive, querying about what they did or said rather than their access attempt.

 

[kilemall]

<<SNORT>>

No snort.

Ion storms, flare stars, hard radiation from pulses or supernovas, underlying gravity waves that mess with jump, meteor swarms especially just detected ones, all the sort of thing that constitutes potential threats to the ship and doubly so any spacewalks.