Lord Krieg:
>Cynthia Higginbotham asked about the source of the "eigth ray of
>propulsion". I think it came from the "Mars" novels by Edgar Rice
>Burroughs, although I'm not certain that I'm correct.
Give yourself ten experience points! Absolutely correct. For the one
hundred point bonus question, what was the "ninth ray"?
Scott 2G:
>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.
Ice isn't really very transparent unless it is really pure H2O. Which
cometary ice probably isn't. And, while grav lifters cost money, most
merchant ships have them to offload the cargo. And lasers are pretty
common where we come from: welders, ship's weaponry, etc.
And I can't recall the last time someone tried to refuel anywhere but
a starport in our campaign. But I also can't remember seeing a ship
bigger than a scout that DIDN'T have laser-cutters and grav lifters
on board. And the scouts have air-rafts, which will do as a grav-lifter
in a pinch.
Dan:
>I am not that familiar with the stutterwarp tech. What would happen
>if one was to fire a sandcaster in the path of a stuterwarp ship.
>When It went to materialize in the cloud of sand what sort of problems
>would it have (if any).
It would have quite a lot of problems, IF it did something so silly as
to fly through such. Since a stutterwarp ship normally fights at ranges
of several to many light seconds, the odds of it passing through a sand
cloud are about zero, unless the Captain is a suicidal idiot. Normally,
such a ship will stay a couple of hours at six-Gs away from you, and
your sand won't do anything, except obscure your vision.
---Steve
***The New Colchis Turtle-- A pathetic ship, but it actually IS
available in vast numbers.. <quote attributed to the President of
Neubayern>
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