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From: "Zan Lynx" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: [gurps] Ways to evacuate a planet
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Out of curiosity, and because some science fiction includes the idea, what
is Vehicles take on converting a planet into a spaceship?
Pretty sure this is unsupported by GURPS Vehicles for GURPS 3e, I doubt the
GURPS Spaceships line covers it either...
I believe Niven has the Puppeteers do this, to get away from the coming
destruction of the Galactic Core.
They do, though I understand there may now be another reason.
It also happens in one of Alan Dean Foster's short stories where the
aliens come to Earth looking for help, and instead of sending a fleet,
Earth comes itself. With the Moon, because humans have got used to having
it.
Didn't Roger MacBride Allen do that in one of his trilogies? (I didn't
actually read them 'cos I couldn't find book 1).
David Weber has Dahak which is not a planet, but the Moon as a ship.
Strike that, Reverse it, Dahak is a Ship as the Moon... (IIRC Dahak was
already 90+% of the necessary volume when it arrived).
I just recently read Sorceress of Karres which is the third book following
Witches of Karres and Wizard of Karres. In those books, Karres (the
planet) moves around the galaxy by "magic."
"Any sufficiently advanced technology might be mistaken for Magic." &/or
"Sufficiently advanced magic might as well *be* Technology." ;-P
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