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Originally Posted by evileeyore
I see it now. i missed his 200 pounnd limit the first time through.
So this is a "Pray we land on an earth habitable planet life-pod" then Fred?
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It is a fundamnetal assumption of the setting that life pods will end up on Earth-like planets a significant percentage of the time. If this were not true there would be no life pods.
Nitpicking about retained/intrinsic velocity and the difficulties of matching orbits is off-topic. These problems are also assumed to be solved or again, there would be no life pods.
It is easy to create situations where life pods make no sense but that wipes out the basic "castaway" fictional trope.
If the pod lands in water it floats. UT is clear on this and it would be another "everyone dies" scenario if it didn't float.
The pod is assumed to be stocked by the ship-owners and probably to a legal standard. Passengers would be advised to keepa "go-bag" containing "sturdy clothing and footwear" that they can grab when the misjump alarm goes off.
I'd have milspec Assautl Boots (UT p. 173). Those add TL/2 to Hiking skill in addition to be indestrutible in normal use. The basic Protective Coverall (UT p. 178) is a very reasonable choice for "sturdy clothing". Together that's another 6 lbs per passenger but we can probably put that on the individual passengers' weight allowance.
A machete would be nice but there's a hatchet in the group basics. Swap out one for the other if prefer.
At TL 10 you can throw in a Morph Axe (UT p. 83) and replace a lot of basic tools.
If you start worrying about gear for serious arctic or desert or bad atmosphere situations it eats up that 200 lb weight allowance quite quickly.
If you need to take your pod apart you can do that with the Mini-Laser Torches (UT p.80). They give you 3 minutes of cutting power off a B-cell but the E-cell can recharge a B-cell 1000 times.
I knew there was better gear in HT than in Basic but there are only so amny books i can go through at one time. Thanks for anything you spot from HT.
Replacing the backpacks for the ones from HT frees up another 9.5 lbs so we're at maybe another 16 lbs of possible stuff.