Zan replied to me: > > Worldship v1.0 (TL10^) > > That's AWESOME! But those numbers are insane!
Yes, that's the point. > I think people would prefer to live on the surface wouldn't they? Depends on the speed. Anyway, Spaceships has no rules for living on the surface of a ship. The old Vehicles rules would make that billions of superstructures of varying sizes on an asteroid hull (which needs Traveller or THS rules). > Could > AI and robot or nanotech support get the crew numbers down to maybe 6 > million? 10% of the Earth's current population isn't too crazy. What use is a giant ship if you run practically empty? Better take a smaller moon, in that case. Week 808 is a four megaton cruiser with twenty crew, and it feels strange how they rattle around in the empty corridors. > Surface life in deep space could be done with an artificial sun that > went around a ring structure supported and tethered by multiple > beanstalks. Or the sun could be its own drone ship that flies in > formation on its own reactionless thrusters. Say the sun is in orbit around a world which moves under power. Could you arrange things so it is carried along? The reactionless thruster is "hot", so it will work with actual thrust, but the FTL drive technobabble could allow the "warp field" to extend that far. > I don't think the cost numbers account for the fact that most of the > "ship" has been preassembled. Stone armor is free. Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
