On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 07:06:40PM +1300, Classified TS/BBR wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zan Lynx" <[email protected]>
>> 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...

It would be easy enough to extend the tables to cover SM+40 (Moon) or
SM+43 (Earth). (B19, including "add 2 if it's a sphere".) It's a simple
progression.

>> I believe Niven has the Puppeteers do this, to get away from the coming 
>> destruction of the Galactic Core.

That's _towing_ planets, not building them into spacecraft.

>> 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."

Starting with jump drive!

R
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