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Old October 3rd, 2011, 07:06 AM   #2
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Default Re: Colonial Camping Unit...and an essay on it

All the consumables (life support, food, medicines, and other survival implements) will last four Colonial Warriors for up to two sectons.
The CCU houses a suite of equipment to support the warriors in the upper half of the habitat dome: A life support tank and recycler, potable water tank, tactical grade sensor and electronic countermeasures equipment, a small main generator to power the equipment, and a communications array capable of orbital communications range. A workstation located between the two bunk beds keeps the camping warriors apprised of systems status, runs the communications and electronic warfare suites, and processes information provided by the sensors. It also can directly control the defensive weaponry of the CCU.
In the habitat area of the dome, two bunk beds allow the four warriors to take sleep periods. Two wall lockers stow the warriors' clothing and gear. Another pair of wall lockers flanks either side of the airlock/entrance, containing hostile environment gear, should the warriors be required to make an excursion in such environs. They also contain repair equipment for the hazard suits, and for the warriors' weapons and small equipment. On one side of the habitat area, behind the starboard wall locker is a food storage container, holding two weeks worth of rations for all four warriors. The rations are small, concentrated food stuffs which are not exactly dining hall quality, but they are palatable enough, and provide the nutrition requirements for a Colonial Warrior. The warriors refer to these packets as R.P.M.'s (Ready Packaged Meals). The top of the food store container can be used to prep and heat the foodstuffs, should the warriors desire a cooked "meal". Again, on habitable worlds where the life support unit need not be engaged, the warriors can hunt for more substantially tasty food, and prepare real meals on the food storage and processing unit. Behind the portside wall locker, a medical equipment container/bed is placed, clearly painted in red. From this container, warriors can treat low level, non-life threatening injuries and illnesses. More dire injuries can be stabilized, but help would have to come quickly. The injured warrior(s) would have to be taken to a better equipped facility (such as a destroyer or battlestar) or be taken to the Medical Treatment Unit (MTU) when a small cluster of CCU's are deployed to form a basecamp.


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