Sooo... 20 people, 1 Desktop Cornucopia machine + Dissasembler, and enough resources and energy... I assume all public templates for printing are available, so the first thing is to secure survival needs (air, food, water...). Then, it's a matter of, as mentioned, duplicate the DCM several times, for example until 8 are available, then leave one on reproduction and the rest go to the following: * nanoassembling swarms, specially if one room can be turned in a big "printer". * Biotube, for better bodies/implants/health issues. * Robots to mine the asteroid for more useful materials. * Camouflage for the ship, so they can't be discovered easily. * Passive receivers, to get data from their surroundings: signals, radars, etc... Is there any light at all? If so, securing extra energy sources becomes a priority, since the antimatter is not easily replaceable. I'm also assuming that the ship has at least 5 EVA suits, if not churning that many goes before the biotube.

kigmatzomat wrote:

Imagine if someone stole a US warship. Now pretend that it was a warship with nuclear weaponry. Your escapees first priority isn't worrying about what to build, it's how to hide from everyone who is after them (aka 40% of the Jovian Navy plus every pirate, spy, Firewall agent and Transhuman who can get anywhere in their path). Antimatter is more potent than fission (1500×) or even fusion (500×). 1kg of AM roughly equivalent to a ton of plutonium 239 or about 4 million kilos of gasoline or 40 million kilos of TNT. Been a while since I did the math. I think this accounts for the neutrino component of anti/matter reactions

Hiding is not a possibility for these guys; only hydrogen steamers can attempt to hide, and even they can only do so until their liquid hydrogen runs out. On the other had, only a proper navy can threaten a Jovian battlecruiser. Trying to take one on with anything less is just an expensive way to revert to one's latest backup. The fact that it's a battlecruiser is more important than the 50 tons of antimatter. A battlecruiser would normally be part of a task force, so they likely destroyed several other ships in their mutiny and the Jovians will be out for blood.(even a reasonable faction would want their heads, and the Jovians are anything but) The safest course of action would be to place a timebomb on the antimatter containment, fabricate an ego bridge, and egocast to a scum swarm or Neptune as quickly as possible. Get away from anything resembling a government, and annihilate the ship to cover your tracks. Defecting to a powerful local faction isn't an option, as there aren't any factions in the Jovian Greeks that would give the Jovians pause. If they want to try to use the ship, they need to get out of the Greeks. 50 tons of antimatter can get them anywhere, so where could they go? Titan, Morningstar, Luna, and the Planetary Consortium are unlikely to want to spark an international incident, Locus and the Argonauts would probably stand up to the Jovians and lose, and the Ultimates would probably stay neutral. Maybe Fresh Kills would be a possibility? They're explicitly armed to the teeth, have had access to a lot of military salvage from Earth orbit for a long time, and have no love for the Jovians. Hexagon is present, which is both a complicating factor and a benefit; the PC has the desire and means to keep Jovian warships out of there.