Re: FT Taskforce and Fleet Actions
From: "Laserlight" <laserlight@q...>
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 00:08:49 -0400
Subject: Re: FT Taskforce and Fleet Actions
> >So make Saturn the "edge", 20 hex radius.
>
> By excluding Uranus you drop 15 possibly habitable moons from the
equation.
So? By excluding the Oort cloud you drop quazillions of cubic
kilometers of this and that off the table. I still think 100 hexes
across is too much.
> >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.
Yep. Just that it's not really dense enough that you should have to
worry about driving through it.