On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 01:21:35PM +0200, Onno Meyer wrote: >* How large is the crew? If each ship is one closed society, you > need a decent gene pool. If different ships meet and there is > an exogamy tradition, each individual crew can be smaller.
One thought here: while many people think of family ships along the Heinleinian model, it seems not implausible to me that they could recruit as well as bringing up the children. This helps both with exogamy and with technology retention. (For that matter, some kids are going to want to leave...) For that matter, if a ship's reliably going to come back in a few years, they might even send a kid out to board and go to university - probably under the supervision of family members too old to be useful on the ship, to make sure they don't get to like planetside life too much. R _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
