On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 22:06 +0200, Johannes Trimmel wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Onno Meyer wrote: > > > I could assume that there is some ice for use in TL9 fusion > > rockets, but it would have to be a lot of ice, and would a > > dirty slushball be attractive for asteroid miners and the > > like? > > > > Is there a good way to get a slushball onto an attractive astereoid? So > you have both fuel and something worthwhile to move. At the cost of more > drives, you propably could even put further fuel astereoids on cources, > where they meet the primary astereoid for refuelling on the way.
Perhaps by arranging the appropriate series of impacts with other comets and/or asteroids, you can get your delta-V that way. From the other objects. Of course you might suffer some loss via fracturing of your target object if you hit it with hard things too often. -- Knowledge Is Power Power Corrupts Study Hard Be Evil _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
