Johannes replied to me: > An other reason, why vehicles might be used for some missions and not for > others is secrecy. > > Some missions might have it as mission parameter, not to leave any hints > who was there. > > It is usually easier to put soldiers in clothes, that could also belong to > other factions, then hiding a vehicles origin.
Hello Johannes, a few troops on the ground may be stealthy, but they are also limited to a small area around the gate. Of course a setting with gates could function that way -- people live near the gate, and if that area gets too crowded, they go through the gate to the next world, not over the hill to the next valley. That would also mean that facilities on the other side of the globe from the gate are effectively off the map. Nobody "sane" would search such a large area. (That could explain the impact of the humans in the stargate setting -- Earth was fully populated, most other worlds are just a gate, a town, and a Goa'uld kingpin.) I like the look-and-feel of the big Traveller ATVs, roughly 35 tons and 3,500 cf, but I've written plenty of those for GURPS Traveller. So something smaller, but equally rugged. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
