I'm advising someone writing a story in the 'New Attica' setting, and for certain reasons, we'd like to be able to courier a particular someone to a hab orbiting Earth in about 15 hours. It's still flexible as to where said personage is being couriered from; the initial suggestion was from Saturn, but since that would require 200 gravities of constant thrust, that seems to be ruled out.
GVB suggests that, ignoring fuel, a rocket that's nothing but a big TL8 nuclear pulse drive could reach about 20 gees, which would give an outside range of around .95 AU... so I suggested Venus, which is only .28 AU away during conjunction, and might allow a more feasible vehicle (ie, one that has enough fuel for the trip). So... how badly have I messed up my analysis? At hard-science late-TL8, just how far /can/ you rocket in 15 hours? Do I need to posit some random asteroid at that distance, or would bringing in a TL9 drive make Venus feasible? Thank you for your time, -- DataPacRat lu .iacu'i ma krinu lo du'u .ei mi krici la'e di'u li'u traji lo ka vajni fo lo preti _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
