Johannes replied to me: > Some other interpretations i can come up with: > > Are the bioships already designed the only ones. There might be triggers > in bioship growth, that work similiar to royal jelly. An baby bioship > might have the possiblity to become a warship, a frighter, a passanger > ship, possibly a bioship womb as well, even if you'd have to make up your > own vehicle components for it.
Hello Johannes, the four upcoming bioships all have roughly the same proportions, at increasing sizes. For example, each has a spinal battery, two major batteries, and a secondary battery, a total of six systems. In a metal-and-composites starship, I'd just cut weapons, armor, power, etc. For a bioship, perhaps the total numbers should stay the same, but smaller: one major battery, one minor battery with two guns only, and one tertiary battery with ten guns. That means three systems, but there is one system worth of cargo in the mix. That would mean bioships are never quite as specialized as metal ships, because all organs are present in larger or smaller forms. > Either it decides itself what it wants to become once it's grown up, and > then keeps the right diet or does the right meditations or whatever the > trigger is. Or it trains some organs, and ignores others. Always at top speed? The engines grow stronger. Lots of practice firing? Same for the guns. > Yet an other option would start with the ships deciding themselfs, which > components to grow, either conciously or subconciously. People often are > not doing rational cost benefit analysis, when deciding on their security. Trained as a warship, but refusing to go into combat? > Bioships might not do that always either. They (or some of them) might > decide that they need all thoose weapons in case they ever get ambushed by > pirates and they would not want to hear about any statistics about the > unlikelyhood of that happenening and how in most cases lighter armament > would be sufficient anyway. They want to be ready for the pirate ambush, > they know from the movies.. :-) Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
