Possible reasons to put all or many eggs into one basket (scouts, terraformers, colonists):
* Baskets are prohibitlvly expensive and costs don't scale much with size. So if you send colonists and terraforming equipment along with the scouts, the additional costs for the scoutmission are a small fraction of the costs for the original scout mission. Costs include risks the colonists take. In such a situation you also need to establish why you want to have colonies in the first place. Trade with them likely will be too expensive to do too. * You need the get the colonists out fast. If you want to spread your race and culture before the sun explodes or the enemies arrive, sending many big complete ships in every direction starts to look like a plan. * Navigation is not an exact science. Hyperspace currents or whatever tend to bring you to rather random locations. It's a lot less time and resources consuming, if you fly around until you happen to end at a suitable location for a colony and establishing one, then attempting to fly to a specific planet, that your scouts have found. Again you need a reasons to start a colonisation program under such circumstances. One mans groundfloor is an other mans earthmissle @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Johannes Trimmel @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
