Hello folks,
I had some trouble concearning wilderness refueling at my last MT session.
I don't know if anyone of you has ever thought about the time, a starship
needs to get close to a large or small GG. I don't have my rulebooks with
me, but I think a typical Far Trader oder a Subsidized Merchant using a
Maneuver=1 drive needs 18 hours from the jump exit (100 diameters) to a
small GG. Even worse, if they approach a large GG. Even if the ship has
a purification plant which take 6 hours for purify, the ship will need
more than two days, before refueling is done.
If I remember the ideas of refueling by asteroid ice, discussed in this
list earlier, I think mining an ice asteroid could take much less time for
a small ship. It takes only minutes to approach an asteroid, an then do
the necessary mining in one day. Mining an asteroid is not so difficult,
if you have done some engineering work, before the crew attempts to do so.
I suggest a small robot with a heater to melt the ice and a pump, to pump
the resulting water per tube into the ship. Don't forget to use the
purification plant though :-).
Any Comments ?
Juergen
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Juergen Kirsch
Institut fuer Informatik, Universitaet Bonn
Germany
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