> Also consider the system, Remember the average system is a Pop5, How much
> money can they afford to spend on a "Space Watch" that pays more than
> cursory attention to off post flight paths space on a regular basis. This
> always a question of cash not technological ability. And in this case the
> major expense is the Manpower and training not the tech.
You could do a certain amount of it just "borrowing" time on ships
coasting in and out to your starport. The entire length of their vector is
the baseline, you get them to record PEMS signal from all directions with
some level of synchronization (in-system LORAN beacons), they dump it to
you, you synchronize it, run it through the algorithmator and you build up
a track of what's going on around you. You could "reimburse" good citizens
for doing that with a nice berth at the starport or credits against the
next time they have to be rescued. When the ambulance comes to your house
to take you to the hospital, that's a paid gig. So would be the lifeboat
service. And if it is united across multiple systems like the NLBI your
membership is good anywhere. Probably works better in the Regency than the
RC, though.
>> The real issue is getting to such a derelict. I imagine that microjumps
>> could be what you want to use there, although as Evyn pointed out, your
>> big SDBs could thrust for days out and days back in. Presumably there
>> are
>> organizations like the Coast Guard or UK's Royal National Lifeboat
>> Institution in systems with good starports (C+?) equipped with small
>> craft
>> or old, demilitarized SDBs (bigger = better able to dock with and brake
>> a
>> runaway derelict), or even old demilitarized starships (Jump drives cut
>> down to J1, adequate for near-system microjumps, leaving more room for
>> fuel) painted bright yellow and red who go out after ships in distress,
>> or
>> to intercept and identify derelicts. Or in systems that to have large
>> SDB
>> flotillas they'd be detailed to do that stuff.
>>
> As per my earlier comment, I can see a volunteer organisation doing this.
> I
> also can see Savage ships pulling down old archival systems scans from a
> number of systems around the last known generally location of a "Treasure
> Ship" and cross referencing them for clues to said ship's final location
> and vector.
> --
> Evyn
>