> Am 23.06.2015 um 11:35 schrieb Johannes Trimmel <[email protected]>: > > > Ok given the no landing operations don't seem to work a different scenario: > > There are forrests of gigantig trees and your crops or lifestock live in the > crowns of the trees. Your standard operation is, that you blimp over the > forrest, lasso strong enough branches (insert some biobabble why strong > branches stick out far enough to be lassoable) and then enter the tree crown. > > You can't get there with ground vehicles, you definitly can't use planes. > Optionally you can add a technobabble reason why grav vehicles disrupt the > ecosystem, or have a local superstion that says so. > > Does that work? > > Johannes
Based on this scenario, the Airships are just the successors of the balloons that are used before: instead of beeing driven by wind, now with the Airships, the harvesters can control direction much better. Perhaps grav platforms would do the job even better, but they are not (yet) in scope of evolution. This would be even more true when the gas that is used in the airships/balloons is also harvested with the crops/lifestock from the trees. In that case, only the hull needs to be manufactured somehow - or, more precise, the lifting body, as perhaps the hull materiel could be natural as well. Oh, and the engine, of course … This would give the airship a significant advantage over a grav vehicle, and it would eliminate the need for ‚technobabble‘ and ‚local superstitions‘ - although they would work, too. -- Thomas Thrien Geo 51° 28' 12" N 7° 32' 17" E PGP Fingerprint 170F 6E4D E99D 05DB 14B9 412B BE79 D4B4 D982 1B17 Es heißt, der Klügere gibt nach. Doch wenn die Klügeren immer nachgeben, dann passiert nur noch, was die Dummen wollen … Of course it has a meaning when a black cat crosses your way from left to right … It means, that the cat, coming from your left, wants to go somewhere right from you … You do not need to be a carpenter to see that the table rocks. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
