Well, that's a plan I suppose... butcha might be waiting a while. I'd probably go if given a chance, but most people would not want to take the risks involved in space travel.You kidding? I'll stick around here, if the option exists...
Reason? I'm *****.. We've been waiting for everyone else to find another planet to colonize and give us our land back since Sputnik went up!
Me?... on the second human colony off planet. The place you are going has plenty of rabbit-like, squirrel-like and game-birdish creatures that can be eaten by us safely. There are also several large predator species that some egghead who planned your mission decided would be a good idea to introduce (lions and tigers and bears, oh my!). This happened fifty years before your launch date... and with Einsteinian relativity, they've had several hundred years to reproduce and adapt to the new environment. The first human colony hasn't been heard from in many years. They had communication devices using quantum entanglement... so it is instantaneous.
The eggheads decided that the loss of the first colony was due to the colonists being killed by those evil unmentionable weapons they took with them. The second colony will only have muzzle loading weapons. Weight is an issue, so each male colonist (yeah I'm a male chauvinist pig) gets to take one gun, and only one gun, a per-determined amount of black powder, shot, round balls and/or bullets and/or molds. You can have some accoutrements in your possibles bag.
What gun from your current collection would you take? Why that gun? What job would you have on the colony?
I'll start off: T/C Renegade .56 SB with a .54 caliber extra barrel... if they let me have the extra barrel. If not, same gun with only the SB barrel. My logic is that the shot will be suitable for small game hunting and a .550 RB will kill the large predators that likely ate the first colonists. This is assuming that I cannot persuade the egg-heads to be a little more reasonable and allow M1-Garand rifles, 1917 Enfields and 1908 Springfields.
My job is colony blacksmith, so I'll be making bigger and better guns as soon as the ship finishes processing an iron asteroid in the new system into a supply of wrought iron and some steel..
If the terminator can't have one, neither can you!Seeing this is Fantasy land, a plasma gun in the 40-watt range.
Welll.... Yeah, I suppose you do! It's a nice loophole I never considered
Not tracking anything that would eat me. More concerned with watching my backtrail.Tackling a lion or tiger with a muzzleloader? I'll pass. Leave me here on the destroyed planet. Is it flooded from melting ice or is it desert from high heat? I can't keep up.
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