Re: Crew for Space Stations

mehawk@internetcds.com (Michael Sandy) wrote:

>It occurred to me that a repair base is likely to
>have a _larger_ Boarding Factor because a repair
>base has to be able to fill out crews.

I disagree. I would think that the larger crew would be primarily repair
personnell. Though that may give them alot of people standing around,
I'm
not sure if that translates into effective combatants.

>If it orbits an aboriginal inhabited planet there
>is definitely a good reason for having extra marines
>onboard.  Ditto for a colony world with nasty native
>animals.  Also, if there are frequent natural disasters
>think of how useful Power Armor could be in clearing
>debris or rescuing survivors.

I don't want to come off as sarcastic here, but depending on the tech of
your aboriginals, they might not be able to make it up to the station.

I suspect that construction equipment would be more prevelent on a
"disaster" planet, which would be more efficient than PA for both
cleaning
and rebuilding afterwards.

Schoon