> We went to sleep and it was this, but we wake up and the whole ship it > taken > over by ..... ... > > Plants from the garden section? > Alien life, pandora or what?
Humans!? For days, the motherships from V are orbiting in the back of my mind, alongside the Ark from Tuf Voyaging by G.R.R. Martin. For the colonizer scenario, I've written a sphere with 200m diameter and 148 million cf, capable of carrying a million refugees. The ship was insanely cramped, of course, but the figure of 150 cf per person should be close to the minimum for TL11+ craft, considering that two thirds are for the quarters alone. A disk with 1000m diameter and 100m height gets 2773 million cf. The mothership won't be exactly cylindrical, so make it 2.4 billion cf. It could carry 16 million colonists, more if freeze tubes are used, or a few million troops with some gear. A disk with 3200m diameter and 400m height is 112 billion cf, give or take a few. Half a billion colonists for a saucer. A 30km long ship like the Ark is way off any game-able scale. You need subway maps, not vehicle stats. The limiting factor for forced growth tubes are the costs, not the volume. Adding a million tubes takes 50 million cf and a trillion $. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
