Re: Sa'Vasku Grub Ships
From: Sean Bayan Schoonmaker <s_schoon@p...>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 08:52:45 -0700
Subject: Re: Sa'Vasku Grub Ships
>Grub Serve the same purpose as freighters for other species. The
>are somewhat in-effecient when compared to traditional freighters,
>but can serve as useful auxilary warships. Typically, grubs supply
>50% of their biomass to fleet units, and then leave to get more, but
>there have been instances when grubs have been consumed to repair
>fleet units... The in-efficiency of Grubs compared to traditional
>freighters is mitigated by the Sa'Vasku ships capability of
>self-repair. There is no pulling fleet units off station and
>sending them back to base to be fixed.
I'm with you so far, and the design looks fine, but the important
part, that most people might have a problem with, is how the bio-MASS
is transferred (game mechanics wise)...