Honorverse on a 24 T-hour budget

Galactic Space Lottery

You have just won the coveted luxurious Galactic Space Lottery. With a bit of handwavium dust particles ...

You have exactly 24 T-hours to spend off-ship in the Honorverse.

How will you spend it and how will you choose to travel?



Travel: Includes round-trip aboard any current Honorverse ship, lodging, transportation, professional escort and meals. One occupant. ROUND TRIP!!!

Extras: You may request private time with any three currently living Honorverse personalities, all pre-arranged in-system after arrival, and ask exactly three questions. Who? What? Highest clearance granted.

Redemption expires in 1T-year.
Tick tock. Beware the clock.

TRANSFERRABLE.

Not to be nit-pickey, but an hour is an hour is an hour. It consists of sixty minutes, each of which in turn consist of sixty seconds, and each second is the time that elapses during 9,192,631,770 cycles of the radiation produced by the transition between two levels of the cesium 133 atom.

One T-day consists of 24 hours. There is no such thing as a T-hour. Hence the reason why Manticore has a clock with 22 hours and a slightly over 20 minute "comp" at local midnight.

cthia wrote:Galactic Space Lottery

You have just won the coveted luxurious Galactic Space Lottery. With a bit of handwavium dust particles ...

You have exactly 24 T-hours to spend off-ship in the Honorverse.

How will you spend it and how will you choose to travel?



Travel: Includes round-trip aboard any current Honorverse ship, lodging, transportation, professional escort and meals. One occupant. ROUND TRIP!!!

Extras: You may request private time with any three currently living Honorverse personalities, all pre-arranged in-system after arrival, and ask exactly three questions. Who? What? Highest clearance granted.

Redemption expires in 1T-year.
Tick tock. Beware the clock.

TRANSFERRABLE.

Let's see.... I'd transfer it to my son, with instructions for him to go to Beowulf, get them to load onto appropriate storage media a brief on basic sciences, engineering, and medicine suitable for comprehension and reading in the early 21st century AD, and while he's there, spend the rest of the day in the best clinic he can find so they can hook him up with all the care and cures they can do and he may use popping back into present.

And, since I can't really direct him to ask many questions on my behalf, I'll just see if Allison Harrington and maybe Rafe Cardones can give him any dating advice. For the third, maybe he can ask Albrecht Detweiler what the heck is WRONG with him. I don't care about the answer nearly as much as having him on Beowulf to get arrested.

Also, ice cream. Beowulf has good ice cream. Kid can enjoy that.

crewdude48 wrote:Not to be nit-pickey, but an hour is an hour is an hour. It consists of sixty minutes, each of which in turn consist of sixty seconds, and each second is the time that elapses during 9,192,631,770 cycles of the radiation produced by the transition between two levels of the cesium 133 atom.

One T-day consists of 24 hours. There is no such thing as a T-hour. Hence the reason why Manticore has a clock with 22 hours and a slightly over 20 minute "comp" at local midnight.

No no no. It is OK to be nit-pickey. I have tried to word it to cover unforeseen bases. Fortunately, I had a little trial run on my friends. They are enjoying it. So I thought I'd share.

The T-hour was put in, because someone, not mentioning who, (Thurston) wants to get stuck living forever inside a moment in Beowulf space in an quirky wormhole causality loop.

But nit-pickey in some fashion is encouraged. For instance, although you only get to actually request three questions, there is nothing wrong with several part questions and spending as much of that 24 T-hour time with.

Make it a trip for two, at least on the return trip as I am a SINGLE DAD here.

Travel AND accomodations: the Brixton Comet.

Visit: #1. Allison Harrington, whichever planet she is on at the moment.
#2. Victor Cachat
#3. the hard choice.... either Michelle Henke or Chien-lu Anderman

I have no idea what my questions would be. But if instead of questions I could do interviews for future release, how cool would that be.

And in terms of the single dad thing... (prolong for me required), Andrea J. if she's available; anyone suggested by Ginny Usher if she's not...

cthia wrote:Travel: Includes round-trip aboard any current Honorverse ship, lodging, transportation, professional escort and meals. One occupant. ROUND TRIP!!!
...
Redemption expires in 1T-year.
Tick tock. Beware the clock.

I assume travel time is NOT included in the "24 hours off-ship?"

In that case, I pick whatever tourist trap is eleven months travel by Atlas-class luxury liner. and choose to ask questions of my three closest family members -- who also have to be transported eleven months away (at luxury liner speeds, so they might as well travel with me .)

At the end of the eleventh month trip, I'd spend most of the time at the local equivalent of a Disney or Six Flags theme park and the rest of the time in a hot-tub. I'd ask my three questions as, "Ain't this a great vacation?" (x3)

Weird Harold wrote:

cthia wrote:Travel: Includes round-trip aboard any current Honorverse ship, lodging, transportation, professional escort and meals. One occupant. ROUND TRIP!!!
...
Redemption expires in 1T-year.
Tick tock. Beware the clock.

I assume travel time is NOT included in the "24 hours off-ship?"

In that case, I pick whatever tourist trap is eleven months travel by Atlas-class luxury liner. and choose to ask questions of my three closest family members -- who also have to be transported eleven months away (at luxury liner speeds, so they might as well travel with me .)

At the end of the eleventh month trip, I'd spend most of the time at the local equivalent of a Disney or Six Flags theme park and the rest of the time in a hot-tub. I'd ask my three questions as, "Ain't this a great vacation?" (x3)

I love it Harold!

Yes! Off ship travel is included! Full use of berthing ship included. Only time off-ship is docked.

You could travel as much of the Honorverse aboard ship in a T-year as allowed by Honorverse physics.

JeffEngel wrote:

cthia wrote: Galactic Space Lottery
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You have just won the coveted luxurious Galactic Space Lottery. With a bit of handwavium dust particles ...

You have exactly 24 T-hours to spend off-ship in the Honorverse.

How will you spend it and how will you choose to travel?



Travel: Includes round-trip aboard any current Honorverse ship, lodging, transportation, professional escort and meals. One occupant. ROUND TRIP!!!

Extras: You may request private time with any three currently living Honorverse personalities, all pre-arranged in-system after arrival, and ask exactly three questions. Who? What? Highest clearance granted.

Redemption expires in 1T-year.
Tick tock. Beware the clock.

TRANSFERRABLE.

Let's see.... I'd transfer it to my son, with instructions for him to go to Beowulf, get them to load onto appropriate storage media a brief on basic sciences, engineering, and medicine suitable for comprehension and reading in the early 21st century AD, and while he's there, spend the rest of the day in the best clinic he can find so they can hook him up with all the care and cures they can do and he may use popping back into present.

The 'spend time copying a technical library' idea was the first thing I thought of too. Touristy stuff can wait.

SharkHunter wrote:Make it a trip for two, at least on the return trip as I am a SINGLE DAD here.

Travel AND accomodations: the Brixton Comet.

Visit: #1. Allison Harrington, whichever planet she is on at the moment.
#2. Victor Cachat
#3. the hard choice.... either Michelle Henke or Chien-lu Anderman

I have no idea what my questions would be. But if instead of questions I could do interviews for future release, how cool would that be.

And in terms of the single dad thing... (prolong for me required), Andrea J. if she's available; anyone suggested by Ginny Usher if she's not...

Sorry SharkHunter. Terms non-negotiable. One occupant only!!!

Perhaps you'd best be served by taking full advantage of our professional escort service! Mesan sex-slave this trip?

Altered requests must be made at least 90 T-days prior to departure date to allow for many posts. Renewed requests delivered by streak drive.

Weird Harold wrote:

cthia wrote:Travel: Includes round-trip aboard any current Honorverse ship, lodging, transportation, professional escort and meals. One occupant. ROUND TRIP!!!
...
Redemption expires in 1T-year.
Tick tock. Beware the clock.

I assume travel time is NOT included in the "24 hours off-ship?"

In that case, I pick whatever tourist trap is eleven months travel by Atlas-class luxury liner. and choose to ask questions of my three closest family members -- who also have to be transported eleven months away (at luxury liner speeds, so they might as well travel with me .)

At the end of the eleventh month trip, I'd spend most of the time at the local equivalent of a Disney or Six Flags theme park and the rest of the time in a hot-tub. I'd ask my three questions as, "Ain't this a great vacation?" (x3)

I had a similar thought (very long cruise where the transit time is the main purpose) involving a sufficiently lengthy trip on a hospital ship for the purpose of receiving the entire prolong series of treatments.

But sadly I'm too old for any version of prolong.