----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Burton West" <[email protected]>
To: "The GURPSnet mailing list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 1:09 AM
Subject: Re: [gurps] Ways to evacuate a planet
On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 12:53:29PM +0100, Johannes Trimmel wrote:
Almost every possible floorplan for the ship will have bottlenecks for
people who enter of leave. The best way i guess would be to freeze the
passangers on the planet and ship them in containers.
One could get something pretty close to this quite easily. Work out the
minimum size that can be self-sustaining (i.e. with all necessary
maintenance and medical resources included), and build passenger pods in
that size. Load them at big airports all over the world, use heavy
lifters to get them into orbit, and assemble them round the spacecraft
frame. The pods are isolated until they get to their destination.
(This works better if you have some sort of superscience force-field
radiation shielding in your tech base rather than having to bolt on
armour plates once everything's in place.)
Alternately, design the lift-pods for short-term occupancy, & supplementary
use as lifeboats.
This would reduce the problems of getting passengers from their docking
ports to their cabins by having them closer together.
If the pods are small enough, they, and the corpsicles/cryo-passengers (if
there are any), can be loaded distributed processing centres, & be,
basically, freighted to the spaceports & ships... (i.e. treat the passengers
as cargo, not cattle).
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