DataPacRat replied to me: > > I'm going with p 39, but I was assuming protection against > > cometary junk at 50 mps at the high end. Against that, the > > frontal protection won't work -- a piece of debris might > > just as well come from behind or from the sides. > > And the damage would be 5d6, requiring 30 points of armor, on all > three sections, to protect against; which, at TL9 SM+8, would require > six spaces of advanced metallic laminate. > > Hm... Would it be plausible to assume that such regions of cometary > junk had been previously mapped out?
Hello DataPacRat, consider how unlikely a 30 on 5d6 is, in addition to the odds that a particle will be right at the upper end of the typical speeds. dDR 15 would go a long way -- protection against an average roll of 4d6. > > The turning point for your colony will come when it is time > > to switch from a command economy to a market economy. There > > will be people with a vested interest in keeping a command > > economy, people who will benefit from an early change, and > > others who benefit from a later change. > > At the initial colonization stage - or, even earlier, while the colony > is still being planned out - then it seems unlikely that very many of > the decisions made by the colonists will be so fixed in place as to be > unchangeable, and also to have a significant impact on when that > changeover will happen, and how to ease the transition. So it would be even more fun to bring that in. Imagine an investor who is willing to add $100M to the colony funding, on the condition that the colony becomes a capitalist economy, and that he gets 50% of the assets, when the colony is large enough. How to define "large enough"? Perhaps power generating capacity, or population size, and not simply time. That could lead to a lot of fancy footwork when the triggering condition comes close. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
