One big problem with leaving the vicinity of earth: Radiation Effective shielding is generally very bulky and probably heavy too.
Travel time and resupply are probably issues as well. The belt is further than mars, and there will probably be a number of things that you either cannot find the materials for, or do not have the skills/tools to manufacture.(is there anyone on the team with the skills/tools/materials for indefinite maintenance of all those prosthetics like the 'taur body? How about repairs in the case of damage? Those are pretty specialized skills...) If there is a small community already living in the belts, that will help a lot as far as not having the skills/materials in-house, but that far from a central authority, there is also the problem of bandits. If your party can get there, so can others trying to avoid prosecution/extradition, and they will probably have fewer morals than the party does. On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:43 AM, DataPacRat <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
