Re: Savasku ships

Adrian wrote:

>...since Savasku ship are grown and not built shouldn't (or rather 
>couldn't) they repair themselves by "feeding on other space debris
(enemy 
>ships are included) by means of a connecting device that allows them to

>pump stomach acids into the target, dissolve it and then take what they
needed.

Yes, but unless the "debris" comes in the form of already-processed
biomass 
(eg. SV Drones) and is absorbed via a womb this regrowth takes much
longer 
than the time represented by a single Full Thrust battle. Let's call it,

oh, say around one biomass box regrown in a couple hundred FT game turns
or 
so if all the ship has to feed on is space debris from human and Kra'Vak

ships, possibly a bit less (perhaps one biomass box per a hundred and
fifty 
FT game turns) if feeding on debris from Phalon ships.

>Wether you class it as a hive fleet (WH40K), night brood (silent
death), 
>bugs (starship troopers), the aliens in independence day or any of a
large 
>choice of others, the idea of a mobile society (or should that be a
plague 
>of locusts) makes for an entirely new challenge in a campaign game
since 
>if you lose a battle you CANNOT sit back on the defensive and recover
you 
>strength, you have to attack (preferably someone weak enough to to be 
>easily crushed).

If your ships can grow (or regrow) by eating debris from enemy
spaceships, 
they can also grow (or regrow) by grazing in the nearest asteroid field
or 
Oort cloud - so the *Sa'Vasku* can easily sit back on the defensive and 
regrow their strength after a defeat. Their *enemies* OTOH can't afford
to 
sit back on the defensive... and unless you're extremely restrictive
with 
the number of Oort clouds and asteroid belts in your campaign zone, it 
probably won't matter if the other players ally to crush the SV - they
also 
have to *find* the SV before it is too late.

IIRC every star is supposed to have an Oort cloud...

/Oerjan
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