> IIRC, Haviland Tuf used Shuttles to deliver large sealife. > > Presumably the automated EcoWar the ship was originally running limited > itself to microbial agents & such that could be deployed > extra-atmospherically (I'm thinking missiles & drop-pods, presumably the > ship mined asteroids & manufactured supplies whilst on the outer portions > of > it's orbit).
* I'm not thinking of a 20-mile ship like the Ark. One mile at most ... and that means the shuttles will be smaller as well, so they might not be able to handle whales or trees. A containment tube for a 20-hex dino is 300 cf and 6,000 lbs. Add the weight of the animal itself and it is perhaps 8 tons. At TL11, a shuttle carrying ten of them could be done at 200 tons or less. At TL10 (using super reactionless thrusters) it would be closer to 500 tons. * A hundred shuttles would take 5 to 10 million cf and 20 to 50 kilotons. Since I'm planning a megaton-range ship, that's OK. * Either way, the shuttle could not carry a whale or a grown tree, so dropping them requires the mothership coming down into the atmosphere. This would also match the image of a large flying saucer over a 21th century city, with lots and lots of shuttles ferrying aliens who pretend to come in peace. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
