RE: Time to speak of many... Re: Gas Skimmers, Wings and Things

The other thing is, if you hit something in a gas giant, chances are
it's either the planet's core or an incoming asteroid anyway....

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-----Original Message-----
From:	Sean Bayan Schoonmaker [SMTP:schoon@aimnet.com]
devans@uneb.edu aka The Beast wrote:
[snip]
>You ain't lied yet, bro. Though the term weak hull doesn't necessarily
mean
>unable to take punishment, I'd be assuming at least the cabin would be
>built like a brick s**t house (crude American aphorism that I've heard
at
>least three Brits use).
What I meant by this was the damage track:
>Damage Track: 4; [o/o/o/*]
1 hit and it takes a threshold, which could be catastrophic if something
important "gives."
Schoon