Hello its Ricardo and welcome to Elite dangerous you find me in my ASP Explorer taking
some time away from the engineers and getting some many before the release of
two point four the returned in the Rodina system now this system is host to
one of the new generation ships that have just appeared or have been found
within the game the particular generation ship in question is the
Lazarus and the Lazarus has suffered another catastrophic failure as a lot of
these generation ships actually have done over the course of our travels now
there's a nav beacon you can jump into system and scan but it won't show up
straight away my recommendation is the head to planet sex in the system once
you've got to planet sex then it will show up as the Lazarus expedition now if
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YouTube so you don't miss another video so here we are on approach to the
Lazarus expedition point of interest
and I'm going to be quiet now and let the story unfold as they play the logs
at this doomed ship
we've suffered a critical failure they came out of nowhere
I thought we'd hit something just a huge bang and then all hell broke loose
system alarms firing off everywhere all drives are offline repair attempts are
ongoing but no success evidence points to one of the cooling
systems exploding on a routine cycle it sent pieces flying through the
propulsion system shredding it chains of explosions and well they're on the short
of it is these ships a dead stick we're drifting no engine no means of altering
course I guess we're lucky the power plant didn't go up we would be alive to
make reports
after weeks of repairs we have to accept it the Lazarus is not going anywhere so
we have two choices open to us we can stay onboard floating aimlessly in space
there are enough renewable resources for generations but it's not an infinite
supply the Lazarus wasn't a top-of-the-line ship there was only
enough capital to get the basic ship built and stocked up for the intended
travel time we added some contingency but that will only give us say another
10 years so maybe it will be our great-grandkids that will have to deal
with the problem I don't like that idea I couldn't bear with it being another
generations problem to solve while we use up all the resources so that leaves
option number 2 we harvest the ship and build as many usable lifeboats as we can
this thing was designed to be dismantled to make our settlements when we reached
our destination once we have all we need from the ship we should be able to reach
a planet as long as it's not too far away
we've done some scans and there are hover table worlds in the region that we
can aim for it'll take months maybe years but I
think it's the best option after all we have the time and giving people hope is
a powerful tool
at the live ships near completion I find out sleeping less and less I tell myself
that it's nerves or excitement to all we've achieved but those are just the
lies I tell myself to keep going the real reason I can't sleep is that I know
what's to come even with the rules in place we've seen population growth
unlicensed births are increasing as people see the light at the end of the
tunnel a new hope is powerful but I forgot it can also blind you to the
truth with our current population we don't
have enough space on the live ships for everyone on board so once again I have
choices to make it might be popular these things never
are but it will be fair there is an Old Earth maritime tradition of women and
children being evacuated first we will hold to that we'll try to keep families
together from those that remain volunteers will be requested I can only
hope that covers the deficit otherwise it will be a lottery for the final
places
the last of the live ships has launched each has a destination well within that
calculated range we thought it best to have multiple destinations not to
putting all our eggs in one basket so to speak all we can do for them now is hope
hope that they make it hope that the planets they land on are hospitable hope
that they thrive and grow for us that remained on board there is no more hope
we go about our existence with the knowledge that we are destined to die
but that we do so so that others could live in the end we all volunteer for
this that's the thing about human spirit we fight over the smallest things but
when it really hit the fan people step up
this is our last lock I won't document our demise this is not our story anymore
it belongs to those out there heading towards a new life it's a story of hope
triumph over adversity and how we came together as a community to give them a
chance out here this is the Lazarus expedition signing off
thank you for watching the fate of a Lazarus generation ship there are more
generation ships on my youtube channel in the generation ship playlist I'll put
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