>From: Gerret Peters [email removed]
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>With regards to the 0-G uses of the center of the asteroid city:
>
>1) Entertainment. All sorts of people would revel in being able to throw
>off gravity for a while and enjoy some 0-G activity. Nullgrav versions of
>all major sports would probably be possible, such as 0-G football. (and you
>think they have trouble on a planar field! ;) ) Even low-gravity portions
>of the ring could be used for entertainment, most notably in the area of
>hang-gliding type sports. It would take a long time to come down, and the fall
>probably wouldn't kill you if you fell... (On the seamier side, 0-G brothels.
> ......) :|
Several different sorts of SF stories (most recently cyberpunk) have
suggested idea for stuff to do in O'Neill-type colonies, which would have
centers much like your big ring. I've seen hang gliding on Gibson's work
and also in some recent short stories.
What I'm curious about is, what other ideas people have seen for zero-g
recreation? Seems to me it could be kinda interesting to make up a list of
whatever people might think of or have seen, and then turn it into a
"Imperial Zero-G Sports Catalog", as a nice fleshing out of the oft-ignored
recreation aspect of role-playing. After all, think of what your players
would think if the next time they hit a belt station they get to choose
what sort of goofing off they do -- and just think of the opportunites for
weird patron encounters...
> (Having just returned from a Paintball excursion, I'm wondering if there
>mightn't be some sort of semi-combat 0-G version of capture the flag?)
For an actual description of what sort of combat training you could do in
zero-g, I'd recommend the first half of _Ender's Game_ by Orson Scott
Card...
(anybody seen other such ideas, as well?)
DGH
and the latter half, for that matter
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