Re: FT Taskforce and Fleet Actions

At 8:03 PM -0400 8/6/01, Laserlight wrote:
> > >That's a LOT of hexes, don't you think?
>
> > Venus .72 AU
> > Mercury .4 AU
> > Mars 1.5 AU
> > Jupiter 5 AU
> > Saturn 9.5 AU
>
>So make Saturn the "edge", 20 hex radius.

By excluding Uranus you drop 15 possibly habitable moons from the
equation.
>
>Lots and lots and lots of vacuum, not much rock.  And if you do find
>yourself approaching a rock, it shouldn't take much of a burn to avoid
>it.  I'd ignore it.  Unless the natives put sensors or bases there.

Where do you get your easily obtained isotopes, metals, silicates and 
carbon chains for industry? Well, I'd think asteroids would be bloody 
great places for that. Lots of intra system commerce between there 
and the factories around the Near Gas Giants and inner planets.

> > What? Good that I'm still working the ideas out or good the ideas in
> > general... :)
>
>Yes. :-)

Comments noted... Thanks btw

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