Re: [GZG][FH] Planet types (was Re: Locations of Stars)

On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Thomas Anderson wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Brian Burger wrote:
> > An atmosphere where firing your HEL results in a catastrophic
explosion
> > engulfing the entire atmosphere...planetary fuel-air explosives...
> 
> such an atmosphere is very, very unlikely to exist. Fitt's law:
systems
> tend to the most stable state. a mixture of fuel and oxidiser is less
> stable than the combustion products, and so will (quite rapidly) turn
into
> it; if a HEL shot is enough to set it off, so is a meteorite strike or
> something.
>

I know. Just a really interesting image...
 
> > In vacumn worlds, DFFGs would have hugely increased ranges, as well.
> 
> good point. i think the vacuum rules are going to turn out well - i
love
> the idea of asteroid combat where vehicles would just float off into
> space, so only infantry can be used, and where you can move from one
rock
> to another by jumping ...
> 

Having more than one planetoid on table would be interesting, although
you'd need big tables.

A planetoid that's (say) 2km x 2km x 2km will 'fold out' or 'unroll' to
(exceedingly roughly) 80" x 80" - a fair sized table all by itself.

A bigger (but not huge) 4km x 2km x 2km planetoid works out to about
120"
x 80" - probably somewhat smaller than this (my math skills can
charitably
be described as exceedingly rusty) Either way, that's a very large
table.

One planetoid per table, but with multiple tables in the room, and rules
for 'jumping' the space in between? (of course, don't forget that in
Real
Life, asteroids/etc are millions of km apart, usually. bit far to jump)
There are 'binary' asteroids out there, I believe, either equal sized
'binaries' or asteroids than have their own 'moons'. there's where the
abilty of PA to put itself in low orbit from low grav planetoids would
come in handy...

Just some ideas,

Brian (burger00@camosun.bc.ca)
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