Just a quick thought: Bio-Tech has rules for genetic engineering labs and also clone growth tanks. If the atmospheric composition and pressure are roughly right, either because of earlier stages of terraforming or because they started out that way (like nasty aliens 'terraforming' Earth), would it make sense to deploy one big ship to establish a sustainable ecology?
Enough forced growth tanks could turn out herds of herbivores to feed minimal breeding populations of carnivores, so the genetic engineers don't have to come back later to add carnivores. To make this work, the terraformers would need hundreds of labs and millions of hexes worth of growth tanks. That costs trillions of $, and it it requires a large ship. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
