Johannes wrote: > If you have prospectors and miners seperate, not only in ships but also in > organisation (not both are working for the same master, or even mutliple > propectors working for the same master competing with each other) then you > need rules what rights are attached to a claim and when they take effect, > and an authority to enforce them. [...] > Propably claimed astereoids are marked with IFF senders.
I'm assuming relatively few prospectors, compared to the total number of asteroids, and Earth tracking every ship move. Where the asteroids are is no secret. Who visited them when is obvious, too. Perhaps tens or hundreds of prospectors, and it takes years to get to the belt, weeks or months between asteroids. So it would be clear that prospector X visisted an asteroid, then a year later prospector Y, then after a decade mining ship Z. Does Z owe anything to X? I guess that Y's claims would be dismissed out of hand ... The "business secret" are detailed maps, possibly seismic scans, of the asteroids. Are the long-range spectrographic surface readings representative? Is the rock structurally sound for a mining base with just a thin cover of ice, or is it a fragile slushball? Things like that. A prospector ship (or their representatives on Earth) could hand over data on a promise that they get x percent of the value if and when the miners harvest the asteroid, or they could be sent to check specific rocks for a flat fee. (No financial risk for the PCs, but there are plenty of other dangers.) Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
