I've just had a thought for a new direction which my "New Attica" setting's main characters might take - avoiding all the fuss between Earth and the orbital habs by legging it for the asteroid belt. So now I'm starting to consider the options for such a colonization attempt - in particular, the fact that the characters in question, while not poor, do have a finite budget.
(As a reminder, the setting is roughly 3e's TL9, with hard science (ie, no power cells or other superscience), with TL10-type neural interfaces, and with an algae-based life-support system which approximates TL11's stats. There's plenty of existing infrastructure in orbital habs and on Luna, so launching from Earth isn't going to be a big problem.) Does anyone have any suggestions on outfitting such an expedition? For example, are there any existing TL9ish craft statted out which would make a reasonable baseline to build on, or gear I'm likely to forget, or important social factors with technical fixes, or anything resembling the sort? 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
