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With only M-drive avail they're gonna' take a pretty long time to move even one standard hex/parsec..
Looking at various star maps a random mis-jump is very likely to turn into a void-jump resulting the ship arriving in an 'empty hex'.

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On Sat, 2/13/16, Timothy Collinson <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Instant city
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Saturday, February 13, 2016, 12:56 AM

 You know,
 all this talk of the beached Tigress has got me thinking
 about the *alternative* scenario.
 Generation ship!
 The Tigress misJumps 36 parsecs, J-drive
 totally shot, M-drive fine.  But in this case there
 isn't a handy planet to put down on or no emergency
 requirement to do so.
 Knowing they were out on the fringes, and
 knowing rescue is unlikely, they decide to go home the long
 way.
 Perhaps leaving some crew behind as colonists
 (either because not everyone wants to go or because of
 overcrowding problems later on), with 20,000 of them
 there's plenty of gene pool for both.
 This would be an interesting environment 100+
 years on either for PCs aboard the ship or for PCs
 encountering it. (Or both if you're following the model
 we tried out at TravCon last March!)
 While the military discipline might hold things
 together for longer than otherwise might be the case, I can
 still imagine quite a 'different' sort of society
 aboard after a fair bit of time and several generations. 
 And of course there's always the traditional complete
 breakdown after mutiny, conflict, disease or whatever if you
 want to head in a more Metamorphosis Alpha sort of
 direction.
 I wonder if its too late to add this seed to my
 submission of _Generation X_ to Mongoose?
 Consumables would presumably be the biggest
 problem given the lack of planning for this, perhaps making
 the journey back even longer as they stop off to replenish
 and/or drop off more would be colonists.
 But is there anything such a 'city' in
 space would be missing from its initial set up as a military
 fighting machine not exactly planning for such a trip? 
 (I'm assuming a normal mixed crew and not a
 p/matriarchal culture of only one gender in the military). 
 Or is it self-contained enough that this actually
 wouldn't be too hard for them?  Or maybe the IN plan
 for just such a contingency.
 tc

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