-------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:31:23 -0400 > Von: "David Scheidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: "Troy Guffey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "The GURPSnet mailing list" > <[email protected]> > Betreff: Re: [gurps] Tinker\'s Starship?
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Troy Guffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Onno Meyer wrote: > >> > >> Do you know Excession by Iain M. Banks? The details would be a > >> spoiler :-) > > > > > > No, I don't know that story. But I don't really care about spoilers. > > > <spoiler space> > > > > > > > > > > > > > In _Excession_, one of the Culture ships is an eccentric ship that's > spent its time collecting and maintaining gas giant fauna, and the > mass needed to support them. For reasons to do with the plot, it > dumps the fauna, and then converts the mass into a fleet of fighter > ships, and is instantly the most powerful force in the galaxy. > David Scheidt Make that 'the most powerful force in the region', but otherwise, yes. And then there was the asteroid base whose computer spent decades to refit nano-scale defenses to the stored warships. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
