Rescue Operations For Damaged Space Stations

In October 3305 I visited the space station "Titan's Daughter" for the first time - and warned about the dangerous location this has been built in. You can find my comments on that in the Article about the third part of the PitTrip. All warnings have been ignored and so the inevitable happend: The station got hit by something really hard and is now being evacuated.

With the increasing speciesism in the galaxy this was obivously blamed on our thargoid neighbours instantly. Even though no one has seen an attack happening news outlets around the galaxy know who is to blame for the damage from the first second; even though it is much more likely that a space station that close to an asteroid belt has just been hit by a rock. The green stains could even be hinting to the thargoids trying to extinguish fires in a disaster relief effort.

But we, as humans, have nothing better to do than attacking the helpers at first sight, forcing them into yet another war that will have no winners.

Titans daughter early 3306

Instead of playing wargames (It's a strange game... The only winning move is not to play) I decided to help in evacuating the station in distress. My Saud Krüger Orca class ship is perfectly equipped for this kind of operations, so I transferred it to the Taygeta System and started rescue operations by transferring passengers from Titan's Daughter to a nearby Rescue Megaship.

During operations like these radio comms a critical for success of the operation. Therefore it is of great importance for all commanders to keep radio discipline in voice channels and reduce the usual chatter. Prompt communication and efficient operations allowed me to do a roundtrip, evacuating 70 civilians from the station, within roughly five minutes. If many commanders participate in these missions, it should be possible to rescue all inhabitants from the station quickly.

Here is a video of such an operation

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Really, the in game athmosphere around these burning station is great. The voice acting from station personell really gives the feeling of a distress situation. And all the fire and explosions... WOW. If you are playing E:D, you should go there, it is a great part of the game.

And with the ongoing improvements of voice recognition I really hope we will be able to have in game bi-directional radio comms soon... the dialogues in this video are faked.