TGW-1406
Chapter: The Dance Begins
Location: enviromental, restaurant
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Sugar and Spice
Sugar and Spice
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Easy Koda, I know how ladies get if you don’t include them.
That’s a bit sneaky, but it gets around the PTBs that want
to play their greedy games.
Wait… A deep spacer, wanting to shut off the air scrubbers?
Just to avoid a bit of hard work? How about the designers
make an effort and fix that? Meanwhile, do the frackin’ job
ya twits!
Reminds me of a newbie I got stuck with, always
complaining about how dirty the job was. All the rest of the
guys were getting sick of this trainee, so when his most
cleanliness was assigned to me, I had him climb into the
big oven and inspect all the fire sprinklers in the oven
and replace as needed. The whole time crying about how
dirty is was. so as he was done he was climbing out and
2 of the other guys grabbed the shoulders of the paper
suit he had on and ripped it clean off! The biggest gag
was I knew about their plan and told the guy to just
wear the paper suit, because it would be cooler in
there HA!
He was running and cussing I just called out “Think of
it this way, it’ll save time in the shower!”
“Well they call him the streak!”
(lookatit lookatit)
“The fastest thing on two feet”
(lookatit Lookatit)
Ray Steven’s song is really funny.
I remember David Niven doing an award show
and some guy streaked. David never missed a beat.
He said it is really surprising what some people
will do to show their shortcomings.
That was funnier than the comedians they had.
A spacer so stupidly lazy he wants to turn off the atmo
scrubbers to save some work?! Some people are just
too stupid to live!
Using knockout gas is a trope in fiction but IRL it would
be way too dangerous. You couldn’t control the dose. Any-
thing that can render you unconscious can kill you. That
makes using the stuff very problematic. Ned can correct
me if I’m wrong. But it works for the story.
You are right about the use of knockout gas.
However, if you want to take something over intact, it’s good when
the people that control it slowly fall asleep. Gas that kills quickly is
often noticed by the people that are affected by it, leaving them
time to do something, like setting off the self-destruct.
So I don’t think they use knockout gas because they don’t want to
kill the crew, but to have a higher chance of taking the ships intact.
That’s very true, anything strong enough to be fast acting
could also cause the heart to stop or the targets would
“forget” to breathe. Or like in the case of something like
nitrisoxyside(?), it suffocates them.
When I suggested a similar tactic, I was thinking about not
damaging the ship in the capture, not the crew. This is a war
they started. To quote an old favorite song of mine, “an
ambushed ambush isn’t very nice.”
I agree. Nothing pretty in war. At least knockout
gas (instead of poison) will give them a chance.
Bill –
You are so totally correct.
I had a CRNA (O-6) friend in the 410th Evac Army Hospital.
He would explain his job to newbies, “My job is to
half-kill the patient before the surgeon even gets there.”
I learned a major lesson too with a can of ether,
the cold engine starter, in a near-dangerous way.
When I had my tonsils out at 32 the anesthesiologist told me to take
three deep breaths. I asked if they wanted me to count backwards
from 100. He said I could after the three deep breaths. I never made
it to the third deep breath.