Goonhub
07-07-2019, 11:29 AM
PRIMARY IDEA - Personal mail-order.
Using one's PDA (or ideally email if payment could somehow work through it?), directly purchase individual items for delivery. Could have a fairly simple complement of orders to start with (bitchin' hat, self-defense gear?, emergency oxygen tank), but is easily expanded to add more options - ideally, these should be fairly expensive, and limited in quantity per order interval.
As to the means of delivery, the most viable method I can think of is having a merchant shuttle dock a couple of minutes after at least one order comes in, stocked with either anchored crates or wall safes that are labeled with orderers' names and locked with a combination their respective orderers know beforehand. (Deca-code might be enough for crates if there's slight forewarning of the ship's arrival, just to prevent tamper before the orderer gets there.)
FALLBACK IDEA (substitution only if prior idea is disqualified) - Chemical centrifugation.
Reagent mixes held in either internal reservoir of a Reagent Extractor can be centrifugated, isolating a selected single chemical from the mixture into the other reservoir or the added container while leaving the other chemicals intact.
Time to isolate increases moderately with number of discrete reagents in the mix (more difficult to get a chem out from messy mixes like Discount Dan's products) and slightly with absolute reagent volume in the mix, and the extractor can't be used for other functions until it's done.
Using one's PDA (or ideally email if payment could somehow work through it?), directly purchase individual items for delivery. Could have a fairly simple complement of orders to start with (bitchin' hat, self-defense gear?, emergency oxygen tank), but is easily expanded to add more options - ideally, these should be fairly expensive, and limited in quantity per order interval.
As to the means of delivery, the most viable method I can think of is having a merchant shuttle dock a couple of minutes after at least one order comes in, stocked with either anchored crates or wall safes that are labeled with orderers' names and locked with a combination their respective orderers know beforehand. (Deca-code might be enough for crates if there's slight forewarning of the ship's arrival, just to prevent tamper before the orderer gets there.)
FALLBACK IDEA (substitution only if prior idea is disqualified) - Chemical centrifugation.
Reagent mixes held in either internal reservoir of a Reagent Extractor can be centrifugated, isolating a selected single chemical from the mixture into the other reservoir or the added container while leaving the other chemicals intact.
Time to isolate increases moderately with number of discrete reagents in the mix (more difficult to get a chem out from messy mixes like Discount Dan's products) and slightly with absolute reagent volume in the mix, and the extractor can't be used for other functions until it's done.