You're currently the acting navigator of a space-ark, just about to complete a 10,000 year mission. There are a 100,000 people in cryofreeze. The ark is supposed to carry a large variety of plants and animals.
A micro-meteor shower damages the ark.
You have to reroute emergency resources to keep the people alive, but in doing so most of your cargo has to be dumped. Out of everything that could have been brought from Earth, you have to choose:
- 5 different plant species
- 5 different animal class/orders
Whatever you pick, you'll have unlimited amount of it (replication technology). The planet has nothing but a breathable oxygen.
So what do you pick?
you should know better than to post a question like this in OT.
Your premise is going to be ripped apart.
A micro-meteor shower damages the ark.
i find it hard to believe that we've advanced enough to create a ship capable of a 10,000 year mission (construction, engines, etc) yet the ship cannot handle micrometeors? A micro-meteor is a tiny meteorite having a diameter of 10-40 micrometres. This is basically "dust particles" in space. One would think a ship capable of travelling for 10,000 years would have some sort of hull thicker than paper.
The planet has nothing but a breathable oxygen.
so.. no water? if the planet has breathable oxygen... is this static? if not.. how is carbon dioxide converted back to oxygen. if it's not converted.. eventually we'll breath up all the oxygen, and left with a CO2 atmosphere, and die.
you'll have unlimited amount of it (replication technology).
when you say "replication technology" .. are you talking Star Trek type replication? cuz.. A replicator works by rearranging subatomic particles, which are abundant everywhere in the universe, to form molecules and arrange those molecules to form the object.
For example, to create a pork chop, the replicator would first form atoms of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, etc., then arrange them into amino acids, proteins, and cells, and put it all together into the form of a pork chop.
If i have replicator technology, why would i need to "choose" ?
You have to reroute emergency resources to keep the people alive, but in doing so most of your cargo has to be dumped.
why would we need to dump cargo? most cargo isn't perishable, and as such, shouldn't need any life support. if you mean perishable goods... well.. then its sustainment system should work on the same system as life support. if i'm that close to a planet... shouldnt need but minimal life support to keep the people alive until the animal and plant life is transported down to the planet.
