On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Onno Meyer wrote:
A maximum security prison on the moon would also be possible,
but would they need ground vehicles? You build a base and a
landing pad, that's it.
If the prison is just a holding facility, yes. Once the inmates have to
work, in mines, or propably even in factories, you could get uses for for
ground vehicles. There might even be a security concept, where having part
of the instalation only reachable by walking or driving through vacuum is
considered a feature. Especially if you follow a "If there is trouble,
isolate it until everything is quiet. Who cares about the people currently
inside" approach.
And what are the benefits of a moon surface base over an
orbital base? Radiation protection? Water ice?
Resources, that might be on the moon.
Armour not only against radiation, but also against debris and weapons
and ships that crash into the base. (if you dig in)
Astrographic peculiarites might lead to places with extremly low chance
to be hit by meteors, and theese places are propably very easy to find,
by looking where craters are.
Likely not the norm for Traveller, but natrual gravity might have some
advantages.
No one needs to fear, that the base crashes into the planet. (even
unlikely with a well designed space station, but decision making processes
are not always strictly rational.)
If you need to seperate components (the radiation/magnetism sesitive
thingie, needs to be at least 500m distance to the generator.) it can
be easier. Rather then a long pole, that needs to be strong forces, you
need an ordinary powerline, and a hall. Or it might be that you have
facilites that might explode, and therefore you want them seperated.
To get rid of garbadge, you need a likely cheap truck, once the throw it
out of the airlock capacity has been used up. And even if you have thrown
too much garbadge out of the airlock, all you need is a workforce with
vacc suits and propably a catapiller.
Such operations do justify, that corporations, with access to High Tech
spend R&D resources on reducing the amount of high tech spare parts an
outpost needs.
Not exactly R&D, since the tech is in the Imperial database,
they just have to get the processes going.
Volume 1, how to go from flint knapping to bronze in 467
easy steps.
Volume 10,423, how go build a space suit in 4,135 easy
steps.
...
A lot of tech will already be in the databases. But if a corporation finds
a new way to make low tech maintanence and spareparts work on high tech
equipment, it has an advantage. Eventually that will find it's way into
the imperial database. But that will take time, and even after everyone
else has it, it still might make things easier for them.
So a large corporation, can justify that some of it's R&D funds, goes to a
MacGyver department.
Given that the Imperium exists since quite a long time, a lot of such tech
will already have found it's way into the database.
One mans groundfloor is an other mans earthmissle
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