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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)...

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