Oolite Bulletins

Sorry - I could have sworn I replied to this. Many thanks! Since I've installed the OXP manually, what's the procedure for switching over to the managed version, which I'd imagine is more likely to be updated? Just delete the oxp then reinstall it from the expansion manager? Will the saved games be ...

If I want to go over to the expansion manager version (I'm assuming that at some point there might be modifications or something) what will happen to saved games that use this ship?

Excellent - I quite like the Falcon as a ship, if only to play at being Han Solo.

In Harry Harrison's In Our Hands, The Stars AKA The Daleth Effect the antigravity machine is invented by Arnie Klein, an Israeli scientist. But he tries to keep it secret and of course never patents it. The discovery eventually results in his death at the hands of spies trying to steal it and the lo...

Now I just need to find a shipyard that's selling Falcons. Lots of Kestrels on offer, but so far not a Falcon to be seen. Any restrictions on where they're sold? Later - never mind, needless to say there was one at the next station! That's a fun ship - some lovely graphics, REALLY fast and very mane...

Thanks!

I can't seem to download the Kestrel / Falcon OXP from Box.net - nothing happens when I hit the download button. Anyone know if there's anything wrong there?

https://www.box.net/s/65rpyp401p

If we're ruling out being too small... There's a reclusive alien Green Lantern called Mogo who has appeared in a few stories, usually sending a hologram rather than appearing in person. In one story an alien hunter manages to track him back to a planet in the middle of nowhere and spends years sear...

If we're ruling out being too small... There's a reclusive alien Green Lantern called Mogo who has appeared in a few stories, usually sending a hologram rather than appearing in person. In one story an alien hunter manages to track him back to a planet in the middle of nowhere and spends years searc...

OK, we have two more answers. The Alice Liddell is indeed a freighter, that's a good one so have a MBP, Disembodied, Red Dwarf ... Nice try, Rockdoctor, but unfortunately it doesn't qualify because we've already had a mining ship, the Nostromo , and Disembodied answered first anyway. Have a MBP for ...

OK, a few clues. These are the initials of the story in which a ship appeared, not necessarily that of the ship itself ATC - (comics) CotG - (Novel) And these are the initials of the ship where the name of the story is too much of a giveaway ET - (TV) MF - (film) Plenty more out there! Later - forgo...

Mainly Cargo Freighter I believe, Serenity from Serenity... Another good one, Serenity from the TV series Firefly and the film Serenity . For some reason that wasn't on my list of fictional freighters and it really should have been, so have an MBP for spotting something I missed. They carried lots ...

Space Truckers definitely qualifies, and was another one I thought of when I set the question, so have a MBP. The cargo in that case was killer robots, so no more of those please.

Two to go!

And today was the 18th anniversary of the other Shuttle disaster, Columbia in 2003

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shu ... a_disaster

The ship's design is as a freighter, for certain - they get mentioned at several points in Known Space stories. This one's individual history isn't discussed much - up until it's destruction. Which, for a supposedly indestructible hull, is a significant point. Niven must have regretted inventing in...