USS Midway

[Stormchild]

I just watched a documentary on the USS Midway aircraft carrier and thought, wow, this would surely be a hardpoint. She was present in all marine conflicts and nicknamed the USS Neverdock because she was the all-time backup. When she was due to break up in 2003 a grassroot movement urged that she was saved. She is now a museum (http://www.midway.org/) in the harbour of San Diego. Of course she has no weapons now, but it would be a real interesting hardpoint if it could be put to sea again. Does anyone of you know if she is still seafaring? There are also historic aircrafts on board. Are they still workable?

I am thinking about a meeting point for storm knights, some kind of competition to the guildmaster. I often use the guildmaster on cons as a hiring agency for storm knights to get instant access to the adventure, why not have some competition?

[Rerun941]

The USS Missouri (battleship) also had a long and distinguished career in the US Navy. She's currently moored as a museum ship in Pearl Harbor. It might also have ties to Nippon Tech since the Japanese surrender was signed on her deck in Tokyo Bay.

It's a shame the USS Enterprise (CV-6) was scrapped. As the most decorated ship (20 battle stars), she was present at every major naval engagement of the Pacific.

Another ship worth considering for a hardpoint would be the USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) which is still an active ship on the Naval registry.

[Kansas Jim]

She is now a museum (http://www.midway.org/) in the harbour of San Diego. Of course she has no weapons now, but it would be a real interesting hardpoint if it could be put to sea again. Does anyone of you know if she is still seafaring? There are also historic aircrafts on board. Are they still workable?
The aircraft probably do work, or are at least in a condition where they could be restored to working order. As for the Midway, I'd say its seaworthiness probably depends a lot on the state of her engines. When I visited it in 2004 the engine room wasn't on the tour but I see that the website does mention it as part of the tour now so they've probably restored it into a semblance of working condition. Certainly in Core Earth all you'd need to do is fuel it up and it'd roar to life. :D

Of course there is one drawback to putting it out to sea - moving a hardpoint uproots it and it stops being a hardpoint. It might function as a talisman for a while but eventually it'd just be a regular old vintage aircraft carrier again.

[Stormchild]

Of course there is one drawback to putting it out to sea - moving a hardpoint uproots it and it stops being a hardpoint. It might function as a talisman for a while but eventually it'd just be a regular old vintage aircraft carrier again.

Damn, I had forgotten about that rule.

[copeab]

Damn, I had forgotten about that rule.

On the upside, though, a talisman decays a a much slower rate than an uprooted hardpoint and can be recharges,

[monarch71]

On the other hand, how large does an object have to be to count as a location rather than an object for the rules of reality that determine these things? Since you can live on a ship, sailing out of a harbor isn't really moving the ship, if you look at it relative to the ship. And traditionally, a ship is its own political and spiritual entity, hence the traditional legal powers of ship captains when at sea.

So, it seems to me that a ship could certainly be a hardpoint, or something like it.

GT

[Siesatia]

Another ship worth considering for a hardpoint would be the USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) which is still an active ship on the Naval registry.

I was in a campaign where we had to pilot the Constitution away from Boston during a living land assault. We actually retook the harbor in her a little time later...

I've always subscribed to the fact that ships are where so many men and women worked, lived, put their hopes and dreams into, and died on, that they became like entities of their own. Especially ships that performed heroic deeds during major wars and survived.

[Stormchild]

What were your problems/enemies in this adventure? Just to borrow some ideas :D