mission essential equipment.

[bobcat]

as for stocking boltholes. food water and ammo aren't enough to rebuild a nation. however just like the fallout games had the GECK i have found a real world GECK to include with your teams equipment.

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki-gvcs.php
all the machines you need to restart a small civilisation. it has been one of my pet peaves that the morrow project crews tended to be more combat and research focused and less we need to rebuild this stuff focused.

[mikeo80]

A few minor nits to pick with you, Bobcat. Yes I agree that Morrow should have had more in the way of prepositioned equipment and supplies.

However, C.O.T. planned that the MP force would be up and running three to five years after TEOTWAWKI. They figured that there would be surviving equipment, supplies and more importantly, personnel for Morrow to help in the rebuilding.

You also had the regional supply depots, like the one mentioned in Starnaman. This is an excellent way for a GM to add or subtract what ever he/she felt MP needed to help rebuild.

The biggest thing to remember is that MP was designed to assist others. Not carry the entire load by themselves. When a team wakes up per game rules, they are usually on their own. PLUS it has been 150+- YEARS since TEOTWAWKI. All of the knowledge and supplies that MP was counting on IS GONE!!! So a research team is a necessary evil just to SURVIVE. A team in TMP universe is in a world of hurt.

Most of the time, what I have seen in campaigns is the Morrow team trying to implement 1850-1870 tech level to an area. This type of tech with a leavening of Morrow fire power to keep the bad guys honest, seems to work the best. With a judicious amount of training in crop rotation, settlement sanitation and water purification, a Morrow team can be a tremendous influence for good in a local area.

My $0.02

Mike

[Matt W]

The Global VIllage Construction Set is an excellent starting point for a "library" of information

I agree that the Morrow Project was intended to assist survivors (many of whom would have useful knowledge/skills) but the Project shouldn't have assumed that EVERY skillset would be available. They should have included a lot of information in every cache

I recommend
http://villageearth.org/appropriate-...nology-library

It fits on 2 DVDs or 28 CDs. Microfilm or photoreduction might also be useful

[mikeo80]

Originally Posted by Matt W

The Global VIllage Construction Set is an excellent starting point for a "library" of information

I agree that the Morrow Project was intended to assist survivors (many of whom would have useful knowledge/skills) but the Project shouldn't have assumed that EVERY skillset would be available. They should have included a lot of information in every cache

I recommend
http://villageearth.org/appropriate-...nology-library

It fits on 2 DVDs or 28 CDs. Microfilm or photoreduction might also be useful

This looks like an excellent resource.

When I learned TMP back in the Stone Age, microfilm was the most economical way of storing data. Computers were still big, clunky things. TEOTWAWKI was scheduled for 1989!!! Well before a lot of the advances in computers and miniturization of components came about.

One of the things some of the teams I played in requested microfilm readers with LOTS of books on agriculture, medicine, animal husbandry, metalurgy, wood working, engineering, etc.

My $0.02

Mike

[bobcat]

im just saying 5 years after teotwawki you won't be able to run down to the local john dere dealership to buy a tractor to clar th roads to your local john deere dealership. hell outside of a cache you'll be lucky to find a tractor in good enough condition to do anything with. having stuff like that in with the teams or even in nearby bolt holes would make the mission actually possible.
but thats going off the original mission statement. besides all those machines or would easily fit inside a standard ISO container if disassembled.

now im not saying pull the researchers at all. im just saying keeping the survivors fed and restoring basic services should have held some priority. and thus the equipment should have been readily available.

[robj3]

Bobcat, you're right.

The Open Source Ecology link you posted was very interesting.
Something like the array of devices listed must be available to the Project.

I am concerned by the need for certain feedstocks (e.g. hydrofluoric acid for aluminium smelting, high purity metal powders for the 3D printers) which may serve as production bottlenecks.

However the average field team only has a small part of the set.

Engineering and Supply teams that haven't been described in materials published to date have the balance of the equipment or can build equivalents.


Rob