Susan replied to me: > Pottery - not as a place making cups and saucers but one making heat > reflective tiles for spaceships or sewer pipes. (why on a frontier star base? > you might ask - well that could be because the clay has specific properties > that make it better for that sort of thing - and you tend to set up the > pottery near the clay)
Hello Sue, I would take a slightly different explanation -- standard parts are imported, even if they're made from raw materials from just this system, but a frontier star base will need many custom, non-standard parts. "A leading wing edge section for a T-1300? Did you raid a museum, or what?" > Glassblowing or glass kilns - again not making the obvious but making fine > capillary tubes used for DNA sequencing and other micro-fluidic systems... > again you are dealing with a situation of the industry moving towards the > better source of material (finer sand in that area or something). Making DNA tools in a local workshop sounds iffy. Have you heard about the Phantom of Heilbronn? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn But again the "custom parts" explanation can be used. > Printmaking - and office of the same news channel under the auspice that > everything might be electronic but posters and stickers are still decent > methods of advertising. Is that a 3E skill? At TL10, we're probably talking about a copy shop where people can have their files printed on large color printers, etc. > Fibre processing/without Spinning - the fibreglass and composites repair > industry. Basically an autoshop that has the equipment to custom make > fibreglass parts... coupled with a small industry manufacturer of building > supplies - you get a plant that processes fibres that could be used to make > clothes but instead the fibre is used to make a fibre glass material that is > used in molded composites and OSB. Actually that would probably confuse and > archeologist.... I don't think there is a 3E skill for that. And Zan replied to the same mail: > How about wings? I believe it was one of Heinlein's science fiction > stories and it was set either on the Moon or in an O'Neil station. One > of the sports the inhabitants enjoyed was flying in the low gravity > using artificial wings. > > It could be very puzzling to find a station that had wing care tools and > things such as replacement feathers. Also in GURPS Terradyne. But would they use featherworking skill or is it yet another sewing workshop with modern synthetics? Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
