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| Piloting the star ship |
I won't mention the creator of the "universe" I purchased and rezzed way up high on my parcel, because it is a bit over priced, but I will say he/she did a great job with it. It comes in various huge sizes and you can control the textures on it making it look like the outer fringes of a galaxy or nova or cluster of stars, etc. It's basically a mega-prim (over 64 meters in size), hollowed out and oval. Use the included control panel to chose from various star fields and you have space. It just costs too much for what you get. The value is not there. It's very possible this item was priced back when a shirt cost L$300 though. Not the creator's fault really. It's just the way things were back then. But I bought it anyway because it was exactly what I desired. But if there is a next time, I will probably make my own easy enough.
So now I have "space". What do I put into it? Either a space station, which I have been making, or a space ship. Well, my space station is too large for the new parcel I share now with Neva and cat. It would need twice as much area as we are living on now. So I guess a space ship would be in order. This will be fun! Having a space ship to hang out on is interesting. Sure, I have hang-outs on the beach at a campfire. One at a tiki bar. There's the house of course and a cabana. A cuddle forest too. But a space ship? COOL!
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| Space: The Final Frontier |
So I went shopping on the marketplace for space ships. There are a surprising number of different sorts of ships and space stations. I didn't really want a space station because I had already made one and didn't have much room on my current parcel for a good sized one. But they kept showing up under the search term of "space ship". So I saw some really nice space stations but had to pass them buy. They did give me ideas for my own space station project though. A great many of the space ships out there were wearable meaning that you can actually attach them to your avatar and fly them around. Many of those were set for combat. I was not thinking along the lines of an interstellar war. I just wanted a place to hang out with friends, so I kept searching.
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| My Crew |
Most of the star ships I found were very expensive. They did much more than I was looking for including weapons and "warp" travel, meaning they could teleport to other sim/regions. I just needed something to hang out on. To my pleasant surprise, I found a small Star Trek based ship fashioned after the Deep Space 9 series called a Runabout. My first impression was that it was too small for my purposes. But it did contain a lounge where friends could hang out and even a parcel media control device for video. It had two bunks for sleeping, a cargo bay with a hover-bike, a table for "dining", even a toilet and bathroom. It had a replicator and the bridge had two seats for pilot and navigator and two work stations for other crew members and all of these were animated. This is a perfect ship for role playing. That's even more than I required so I checked on the cost in anticipation of purchasing it. Unbelievable. Obviously the creator wants to sell lots of these. The cost? L$89. I see T-shirts that cost more than that! I may have issues with the size and overall looks, but at that price it does not matter. I almost never promote a product on this blog but I'm going to change that policy right now. You can get this wonderful piece of work at Starfall Creations Runabout
If you are into role play (RP) then this is perfect for you. It's Star Trek based so you will see that the control panels are all LCARS systems. If you don't know what that means, don't worry. It's still a great place to hang out in too. I even read a review by someone stating that they used it as their virtual home. It's only 209 prims so it has less of an impact on land that many homes or skyboxes.
Neva, cat and I spent about an hour or so on it the other night. We enjoyed the sofa and if we so desired, we could have watched streaming video on the TV, but that's just not our thing. Visiting for the three of us all together at once is rare and very special to us. It's not easy getting three different time zones together all at once. And even though cat pressed every single push-able button on the ship, it did not self-destruct. She is true to her name in that curiosity may one day kill the cat as they say.
"But Master! It was blinking red!" *facepalm*
