--- On Tue, 2/23/10, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Onno Meyer <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [gurps] Biological terraforming revisited > To: "The GURPSnet mailing list" <[email protected]> > Received: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 11:28 PM > Susan wrote: > > If you want a reason to write a special ship. I'd > write a series of > > smaller modules that can be independent or can be > connected to form a larger > > ship...."Lego in space" > > > > There would be times where you'd want complete > isolation of the various > > groups of organisms. And micros, plants, fungus, > insects, fish, and mammals > > would be logical splits. > > I'd really like a growth tank capable of handling a T-Rex, > and > enough room to carry a sedated dino around (i.e. enough to > let > it go on a rampage). A 20-hex species requires a 1,000-cf, > > 2.5-ton tank. The tank should be mounted on the sides of a > big > corridor, 30m wide and 20m high, to maneuver a dolly with > the > specimens. There could be just one of those corridors, > running > along the spine of a 200m or 300m ship, but having several > of > them would be sensible -- the plant department, the land > animal > department, the sea animal department ... > > A fully grown whale could be a 1,000-hex animal, and it > would > require a 50,000-cf, 125-ton tank. There won't be canals to > > let it out :-) > > It would be possible to have a control/hub core module and > a > couple of lab sections, forming an Y or a cross, but taking > > that down into the atmosphere to release a whale sounds > iffy. The transport/breeding ship could have a modual of shuttles or various drop pods for transport of critters back and forth... though really for most things you'd want to seed the critters young (or for plant's at the seed stage) otherwise they will have problems adapting to the sublties of the environment they are supposed to live in and will sicken and die more quickly. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
