Bryan, you may forward this to GDW if you feel they'd be interested,
but I kinda doubt it.
Hmmm,
Tom suggests a giant electric blanket or just a warm starship hull
for melting ice. (Kinda reminds me of 'The Thing') Well, that's
fine, as long as you've got a planet with an atmosphere, to work
on but it's not really applicable to work in asteroids. (No gravity,
no atmosphere)
Steve was talking about using laser cutters, and grav lifters to mine
ice. Well, ice, being transparent is probably not quite so easy to
melt with lasers, but not certainly not impossible. However, grav
lifters, and mining equipment cost money. They certainly aren't
standard equipment aboard any starship *I've* ever let my players
aquire. After all, mining ice is certainly not the easiest way of
fueling up, and is kind of a last resort in my book. Anyone who doesn't
have the equipment is going to have to think twice about going into a
system where the only fuel source is ice...
I can think of all sorts of nasty mishaps for unprepared players... |->
2G Scott
"He's turned himself into a hideously deranged mutant killer monster
SNOW GOON!" -- Calvin