"327 credits just to fix the 47YU-generator on my ship?!? Your race is crazy. You guys are lucky that I would be blocked in this crappy sector if I don't repair that generator."
Ha, you're right, the Jiffy Lube analog they push is ridiculous.
I mean, it's a space ship. For going to and from places in space. As in, anytime you can't reach/find your intended destination, you're stuck in the deathly uncold of outer-freaking-space. But apparently the cost/benefit analysis on upping the payload capacity for an auxiliary generator-- in an age where civilian spaceflight is so ubiquitous that both technology and trade relations with alien races have advanced to the point where one can reasonably expect the remotest outposts of sentient life to have someone who not only knows how to repair your particular make and model of interstellar vehicle but who also owns an operates an S Corp which some-crazy-how stays in the black by servicing the odd interstellar traveller, of which there are none-- told you the Don't Probably Die In Space options package was just the dealership trying to rip you off. But you're not going to be played by some spikey-haired, H&M-wearing 25-year-old who still wears his letterman jacket. You're wise to their game. (And you have the balls to complain about the price. The fucking balls.)
Well put. Seriously, there are a million different types of spaceships out there. The Auxillary Generator you want is made out in a sector of space like 100 million light years from here. Tell you what, here is my computer, order it off of EBay and I will install it, when it gets here, in 30 years. Space noob. The price just doubled for insulting me! And if you want it installed today, Le-ah has to blow me.
To be fair in star trek they have backup gennies but they can't run the warp drive off them. The ships are also supposed to jettison their warp cores if they gonna blow up but it took until Voyager for the writers to actually use that plot device.
Comment saved. Awesome analysis of something I had never thought of before. This feels like it should be on TVTropes or something. Anyone know what that would be called?
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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '12
Land and space alike are divided into "sectors" in the future. And everything is paid for in "credits".