Plasma and YOU

[Thundy]

I have some questions regarding plasma.

1. What are all of its qualities? As a solid, does it have any lasting effect on bare skin, like, to cause irritation or poisoning?

2. How much would a single sheet of plasma cost off station? What would its retail price be? Could anyone in the universe purchase it?

3. What would a single sheet sell for off station on the black market?

4. What are all of its uses?

5. Are you searched on the Odin? What do you have to declare? Do you go through a metal detector? Would plasma show up on a metal detector?

Thanks guys.

[canon35]

I think I can answer #4.

Plasma's mostly used as fuel for shuttles.

[Guest Menown]

9001) Can Plasma Fuel melt Plasteel Beams?

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

1. What are all of its qualities? As a solid, does it have any lasting effect on bare skin, like, to cause irritation or poisoning?

It's safer in solid form as supported by game mechanics. But obviously you shouldn't eat it or rub it all over yourself since it's a toxic material.

2. How much would a single sheet of plasma cost off station? What would its retail price be? Could anyone in the universe purchase it?

See the uses part. It's like gasoline right now. If you're swaggy enough to own your own bluespace-capable spaceship, you gunna buy plasma to use bluespace. Because economics is hard let's just say it's 15 credits for whatever equivalent a 'gallon' is for spaceships. In terms of 'purchasing power' this is about $5 a gallon to fill your car IRL. That should keep the plebs in their mass-transit.

3. What would a single sheet sell for off station on the black market?

You could just sell it on the regular market. A solidified sheet of plasma would probably run for 20 credits a sheet? I made this up on the spot because multiples of 2 is nice, and it increases in value drastically. 50 x 20 = 1000 credits for a full stack. That makes 1 sheet less than a cup of coffee, but a full stack pretty dank in value. Adding up the sheer amount of plasma present in the mining asteroid alone, you can start to see how suuUUUuuuUUuuuUUUUuper profitable all this is for Nanotrasen if they own like, a million of these asteroids.

4. What are all of its uses?

Imagine what plasma can do with game mechanics, then multiple it by a billion in scale.

1) Fueling bluespace gates that make interstellar travel take a matter of hours or minutes.

2) Fueling bluespace drives in conjunction with the bluespace crystals, to do the same, but constricting the pilot to only bluespace beacons, or their own sense of risk for blind jumps.

3) Power. Singularities and supermatter power the galaxy, where it's not fusion.

4) Medicine. I forget what drugs need plasma as a catalyst but it's a fe.

5) BOMBS. GLORIOUS WAR PEWPEW BOOM BOOMS

5. Are you searched on the Odin? What do you have to declare? Do you go through a metal detector? Would plasma show up on a metal detector?

Because the Duty Officers are lazy and admins are too lame to spawn as Odin police at every single round end, there's no actual 'searching' going on. But let's play pretend.

When the station just goes through a regular green work day and Odin has no suspicions that anything spoopy happened, all you have to do is flash your ID and turn over any weapons or contraband for them to seize. Hardsuits, weapons, tools, everything that doesn't personally belong to you. Anything else that wouldn't make sense to take from you, like flasks or clothes, are probably just billed out of your account.

On higher alert levels crew are frisked and sent through a scanner. It's like an American airport security screening. Plasma wouldn't show up on a metal detector, but there's no doubt a device that they can wave on you to detect plasma.

Tl;dr smuggling stuff through Odin is hard, but not impossible.

[Thundy]

Tl;dr smuggling stuff through Odin is hard, but not impossible.

 

I think you know what I'm thinking...

[Killerhurtz]

Considering questions answered. Locking and archiving.