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Land Locked

POSTED BY: PSYCHOTIC
UPDATED: Sunday, February 25, 2007 15:07
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Saturday, February 24, 2007 2:13 PM

Can anyone explain what a "land lock" is?

It comes up in Old Wounds, too. (Any good browncoat who can write a Wikipedia article on Old Wounds?)

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Saturday, February 24, 2007 2:16 PM

YINYANG

You were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.

I think that's when some sort of technology prevents a space vessel from running their launch sequence - which renders the ship "locked" to the ground, in somewhat the same way a classic boat would be "locked" in a lake by land on all sides.

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Saturday, February 24, 2007 4:48 PM

PSYCHOTIC

Hmmm... I just don't understand how this technology would work. How's it possible to prevent Serenity from lifting off? I assume a ship can only be landlocked if it's near a "port authority".

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Saturday, February 24, 2007 5:56 PM

SHANNARA

if it's the jaynestown episode, i just thought they had applied some bigass ole clamps to the landing struts so the ship was literally gripped to the ground and thus landlocked. but i have no reason for that belief other than my imagination at the time.

"A ship like this, be with you until the day you die. Unless someone landlocks it on you first"

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Saturday, February 24, 2007 7:02 PM

YINYANG

You were busy trying to get yourself lit on fire. It happens.

Well, it's possible that the technology would interfere with their routine, like a corruption of computer files may prevent it from booting up. I wouldn't think that they'd necessarily have to be near a port authority, or even that a port authority would have to be the one (probably just as easy for criminals to get ahold of it), but it might be easier (stronger) if it was official and nearby.

Of course, this is all speculation on my part.

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Saturday, February 24, 2007 7:04 PM

SUPERFLUOUS

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Can anyone explain what a "land lock" is?

To my reckoning, ‘land-lock; is some sort of device (possibly similar to a tractor beam, etc) that keeps ships from lifting off the ground. I’d image, for some reason that land-lock can only be used on planets (but that’s my guess).

In the manner of ’what is is’ and ‘how it works’ is anyone’s guess. Maybe if more episodes were made they could have explained it a bit more.
But at the end of the day, I think it was one of those plot-driven devices that are used where we as views must accept impossible as real. Like the full-gravity on ships, or the Terraforming planets in decades (not centuries). Even if it is scientifically impossible to go light speed (Star Wars) or travel between wormholes (Stargate); we have to take it on faith.

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Saturday, February 24, 2007 11:35 PM

CITIZEN

Apart from a country that has no coastline the most obvious answer is that the ships computer was prevented from allowing the ship to take off. Serenity is a bit of a brick and I can't see it being possible to fly without a fly-by-wire system. So if you can command the computer to 'not fly' the ship won't be going anywhere. I can't see a physical system of big clamps on the landing gear or similar for two reasons, one where Serenity landed didn't seem to be much of an organised Space port, and certainly didn't seem to have any big spaceship leashes lying around. There's also the fact that whatever was holding the ship on the ground was released by Fess remotely and very quickly, one moment the ship was landlocked, the next moment not.

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Sunday, February 25, 2007 6:47 AM

DONCOAT

Think of it as a sort of virtual "Denver Boot" for spaceships.

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Sunday, February 25, 2007 1:04 PM

ZZETTA13

I agree with the above posts that say that it is some sort of technology that keeps the ships computers from functioning properly. As in the OOG eps where we hear Mal say to the commander of the salvage vessel " You scan me and know I have no life support..." Higgins authorities probably have the technology to disrupt Serenity's launch abilities.Therefore keeping the transport "land-locked". Another way to look at is, that it may be something that disrupts the atom above landed flying vessels. Not allowing the thrusters to work properly adding somewhat of a veil over a ship to keep it from take-off. Fess Higgins in the JT eps does say that he lifted the land-lock on Serenity.

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Sunday, February 25, 2007 3:07 PM

CAPTAINCOUPI

Well we know that it's possible for an outside agent to override the pilots command. In Bushwhacked the Alliance cruised orders the crew to surrender their helm so the cruiser can pilot them in to dock with the ship. We also know that Serenity can talk to other ships to get them to do things; again in Bushwhacked Wash can override the airlock on the derelict ship so that it opens. Stands to reason then that if ships in the Verse can be remotely controlled and the authorities want you to stay on the ground they would be able to stop a ship taking off just by telling it to ignore the pilots commands.

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