Morgue Ship

[IdeaBoy]

When i was watching a rimworld video the guy had a lot of bodies around and debri and you can't really delete it so, how about, like a morgue ship for bodies and a salvage ship for all the debri and they come in trader season and the morgue ship has a small fee for the pick up and the debri ship doesn't.

[Pheanox]

Well, you can dig graves to 'store' dead bodies, so I'm not sure how big of a deal that is.

Though, this did spark an interesting thought.  You could have a morgue in your base, and use frozen bodies for science and stuff.  Cryo-tech exists, and is familiar to your survivors, so shouldn't be too hard to get on a research tree.  Then you can get events like a ship coming by that wants to buy off dead bodies for harvesting organs or other experiments.  Now you have to choose between using the bodies for spare parts for your own colonists, or the cash selling them could get you.  Or alternatively, your colonists could be against experimenting on corpses and just bury them.

[Eormur]

Clearly a Soylent Green processing plant is required, to help manage this waste and remove the depressing sight of corpses. Oh and for extra food...

[Pheanox]

How I missed the opportunity to make a Soylent Green reference I can't imagine.

[IdeaBoy]

Last i checked, the graves were for you're colonists only and i guess you could create a wounding system and could create a morgue to give to your colonist without any limbs.

[GC13]

Last i checked, the graves were for you're colonists only

Oh, they most certainly are not for your colonists only. I had quite the graveyard going from all of the raiders I was gunning down on that first colony of mine.

[IdeaBoy]

Still a cool concept of a system and when's your next video!?

[Jakadasnake]

How I missed the opportunity to make a Soylent Green reference I can't imagine.

This is from that french movie, yeah? The name escapes me...

[Tynan]

You can actually get rid of bodies by blowing them up. Or burning them

I need to write some code so there are psychological costs to doing this...

[Pheanox]

@Jaka Not sure if serious, but it's from the movie Soylent Green.

[golgy]

You could have a morgue in your base, and use frozen bodies for science and stuff.

Ooh - that's a bit macabre! But I like it Perhaps you should even suffer a little negative morale for experimenting on your own people - but make it worth the risk

[Conti027]

haha Soylent Green. Selling bodies as food or making food

[AspenShadow]

I think I've heard the idea of organ harvesting being a part of one of the science research branches on one of the other forums and I like the idea. To do any testing before you can grow your own limbs; future-tech tier that we're almost close to actually, you need to have waste-able organic material/prisoners to work with as subjects.

I like the idea of adding perhaps a mass grave? It counts as disrespectful, but more respectful than other methods. I just want my beloved fallen colonists to have their own individual grave and then a Raider boneyard lol

[Raufgar]

I'd love to see an event added where a morgue ship crashes or burns up in the atmosphere over your colony. So you'll get a rain of bodies and gore, and the resulting mental trauma 

...or, instead of a morgue ship, you can get :

Landing Pad Control - "What is your status over?"
Crippled Ship - "...ship engines critical...structural integrity...won't last long...unable to...it to safe port..."
Crippled Ship - "...our self-destruct systems will make sure no large ship parts makes landfall...vicinity..."
Landing Pad Control - "What is the status of your cargo?"
Crippled Ship - "...wouldn't worry about it too much, you'll mostly be getting a rain of manure"
Landing Pad Control - "Comms protocol does not allow me to answer that properly."

[ElcomeSoft]

A use for corpses other than littering the nice landscape would be great. Some of these ideas might be a bit dark and gloomy but bodies for research (expanding research from a simple desk to requiring specialised equipments or parts/bodies) and being able to sell them to a passing ship, or use them as some sort of fertiliser actually sounds useful.

You're a small colony of people trying to start a life on a new planet with barely any resources and raiders attacking every other day. You would bend normally accepted social and moral rules to make it work and stay alive. It might make you a bit less happy to randomly pick a colonist, a friend, to kill and eat but it sure as heck would beat having everyone starve.

Good ideas here.