Johannes replied to me: > > Both fuel skimmers and SDBs hide regularly in gas giants, and > > many ordinary ships skim their own fuel as well. That means a > > lot is going on within the gas giants of industrialized > > systems. How about specialized salvage or strike teams, then? > > > > Are they actually landing or going to the surface of the gas giant? I was > always under the impression that theese operation happen in comparably > high places in the athmosphere of the gas giant.
In our games, there were plenty of opportunities to operate in gas giants, usually down to a few bars of pressure. Ships with contragrav find it easy to operate in the atmosphere much like a submarine or a blimp. Going lower was usually the result of technical failure at a critical moment or an attempt to hide. Pressure was no problem for the ship, but the composition of the atmosphere was -- all that hydrogen leaking in. Most ships would stay so high that the pressure outside was less than the pressure inside, even if that won't stop all diffusion. It might be possible to set up stations or ports, but the benefits are not worth the problems. Instead, the stations would use their contragrav to hover above the atmosphere. Not in orbit, since they's fall without CG. Slightly lower depths, below the usual commercial traffic, would be home to system defense assets and the odd derelict starship. Going really low would rapidly overwhelm not just our trader but even armored warships. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
