Planet 51, yes, possible..
Yes, what about a colony ship sent to Earth, but by aliens, who wake up to
find they "home" taken over by an infestation of Humans or ... how
xeno-phobic are the Aliens (Alien to us)?
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Onno Meyer" <[email protected]>
To: "The GURPSnet mailing list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: [gurps] Biological terraforming revisited
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 $.
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