[TML] lifeboats

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 10/1/07 11:36 PM, alan spik wrote:

> Not so. The plant is kept warm by a trickle charge from the ship. Its
> ready to burn when the fuel actually starts flowing.
> Of course the pax don't have unsupervised acess. There are stewards
> running all over, alarms on the hatches, etc...
> You keep the kids out the same way you keep them off the fire alarms.
> Out of reach of the smallest and during the initial lifeboat drills you
> inform everyone of the dire consequences of an unauthorised launch and
> carry through on them when the dukes 13 yr old nephew launches one of fun.

I refer you to the rules on crash-starting a power plant after "running
silent".

Then I refer you to this film of a 2-3 year old child climbing to the top of
a refrigerator.  There is no "out of reach" of anything publicly accessible.
<http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=6776&aid=undefined>

And if they are as quickly and easily launched as you need, the alarms will
only tell you it happened, not prevent it.

Yup, you *try* punishing the Duke's nephew.  Even if you succeed, guess what
happens when he gets hold of a bit of power and remembers you, considering
how psychotically a large percentage of Imperial nobles behave.



On 10/1/07 11:36 PM, Tom Naro wrote:

> Use the same methods that keeps kids from opening the airlocks.  After all,
> having kids blown out the airlocks cannot be good for business.  These kinds
> of safeguards must already exist.

The airlocks would be kept locked.  Only authorized personnel could open
them, short of some major security hacking.  The lifeboats, as emergency
escapes, MUST be accessible by all.  You know, like you can't lock emergency
exits from a building.