--- On Sat, 2/20/10, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? Well that would sort of depend on how long you want to wait for your terraforming to take hold. > > 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. Yes, or several smaller ones. If all you want to do is give yourself a beginning atmosphere, you could theoretically do this with just the microflora/fauna decreasing the size of the tanks you need. If you are going for anything larger then you have to either have plants or plant them for the herbivores. However they have to become established before you place herbivores there. You also need a fungal population to get rid of the old plant growth and start turning it into soil. Alternately if you are talking a place which has edible plant life all you really need is a few rats and a few rabbits. ;) _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
