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The Mighty Trash Beacon
"One man's trash, is another man's treasure. Literally"
The Trash Beacon is a object specific to CEV "Eris" and simply activating it allows you to magnetically pull literal piles of trash near it. Just for you to shovel through to find oddities, materials, or even hardsuits.
Bare Basics
The beacon is located at the lowest deck aboard the CEV "Eris" and across the hall from the recycler and provides a mechanic for all inhabitants of the CEV "Eris" to reap the bounty of the scrap piles without venturing into the maintenance tunnels. The Trash Beacon itself can be found on the lowest deck of Section 3, Southeast corner. You can get to this location by taking the south exit of the Asters Guild lobby and following the path all the way down to the bottom floor and then taking a right (East) turn at the intersection.
The Trash Beacon workspace can be broadly broken up into 3 areas:
| Ready Room | The Ready room at round start contains the basic tools you will need to break down a junk pile (shovel, crowbar, wrench) as well as air tanks and space suits for working in the vacuum of space. |
| Airlock | The Airlock allows players to move between the pressurized area of the CEV Eris and the Scrap Beacon. |
| Workspace | The workspace is the Beacon itself and the workspace around it. |
If you arrive later in the round and you cannot find one or more of these objects there should be spares scattered around the ship, or you may purchase the tools from the Guild or another inhabitant of the ship.
Recycler Belt
Running around the the edge of the Scrap Beacon workspace is a conveyor belt. This belt is controlled by the lever next to the exterior airlock and feeds into the CEV "Eris" trash and recycling system.
Once the conveyor belt has been turned on it will take anything placed on it to the trash sorting machine. Trash taken this way is sorted to be sent to either the Bioreactor chamber or the Recycling machine.
The Recycling machine is NOT accessible to members of the general public, but is instead controlled by the members and employees of the Asters Guild. The machine converts most objects into their basic materials such a steel, silver, wood and so on. These materials may be sold to various interested factions on the ship or exported for credits.
All inhabitants of the CEV "Eris" have access to the beacon which they can use to either help Aster's out by recycling goods, or search for their gear they want. Because trash piles are random, you will not know what you get until you finish sifting through every last pile.
So get digging.
Tips
- As with everything on Eris, the Scrap Beacon is a dangerous tool. If you are in scrapping zone when the beacon is activated you will likely be gibbed when a scrap pile lands on your head.
- Suggest Aster's pay vagabonds for sifting through the beacon and throwing things into the recycler convoyer, this way Aster's make money through materials and vagabond can make money doing something useful for once.
- Vagabonds can take items they find, and at times sell to Aster's or Moebius for a quick profit if you find something they're interested.
- The Trash Beacon is covered by the CEV "Eris" shield grid. This means with sufficient power the Beacon work area could be filled with air to allow for working without putting on a space suit. Alternatively people could attempt to pressurize the area on their own by building walls to retain atmosphere.
- Certain subspecies of roach can survive the vacuum of space.
