Asteroid Prospecting and Mining - rule book, supplement, whatever?

[Crakkerjakk]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

with jungles on Venus

With dinosaurs! And lizard men!

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

I know. That's why I said "if not more". Honestly, I'd never want to run a solar system campaign unless it was the old timey solar system with jungles on Venus and nekkid women on Mars. But it ain't my campaign so I do my best to be constructive.

Err, no. Mars is a place that lacks females. Venus is the jungly place where things get hot and all that. And Terra happens to be the buffer . . .

[Johnny1A.2]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

The exact same things are all equally likely to happen while drilling for oil in the modern world, if not more so.

So it's worth making a list of interesting things to happen during resource exploitation.

1. You release a monster.
2. Competitors try to drive you out of business.
3. Organised crime extorts you.
4. Disorganised crime steals from you.
5. Rebels attack you to eliminate the government's revenue
6. All out war breaks out. You are caught in the middle.
7. One of your crew is accused of murder.
8. One of your crew is murdered
9. The government threatens to nationalize your operation.
10. On the job accident requires a rescue operation or emergency medical transportation.
11. Um...bad weather?

Solar radiation storms are weather of a sort, and it would be something asteroid miners would have to be paying attention to.

[Johnny1A.2]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Err, no. Mars is a place that lacks females. Venus is the jungly place where things get hot and all that. And Terra happens to be the buffer . . .

If we want prevalent nudity, lots of oceans is probably better than all-jungle. Think ocean-covered Venus with lots and lots of tropical islands...of course there could be vast jungle-covered continents north and south, or this being Venus, maybe the comfy-hot islands are in the high latitudes and the jungle-covered, intolerably hot continents are tropical.

Or better yet, there's a desert band on the north and southern edges of the globe-girdling equatorial continent, this is where the lizard-men live, in the equvalent of the 30 degree N/S desert band on Earth. In the rainy band around the equator itself we find the classic Venusian jungles and the heat-adapated warm-blood dinos. The ring-continent separates the vast polar oceans from each other entirely, reducing the efficiency of heat-transfer and letting the poles be colder, we find the human-comfy, merely very hot island chains in the north and south oceans. The oceans are full of Cretaceous ocean life, making low-tech sea travel...interesting.

Since the main continent runs all the way around the planet, anybody wanting to cross from the northern islands to the southern has to cross the deserts and jungles and mountains of the equator, if they don't have flight tech...and if they do, maybe the lizard-men tend to shoot at them with the powerful anti-aircraft weapons they inherited from their pre-decadent ancestors...

This setting could actually be good! I may use it for something.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Err, no. Mars is a place that lacks females. Venus is the jungly place where things get hot and all that. And Terra happens to be the buffer . . .

*hides Thuvia in the closet*

Blasphemous dog!!! What is this madness you speak of?

:)

[Not another shrubbery]

Originally Posted by Apache

*hides Thuvia in the closet*

Not that Mars... more like the one this guy came from *g*

I loved collecting those when I was a kid :)

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

The exact same things are all equally likely to happen while drilling for oil in the modern world, if not more so.

Well, sort of. Many of your suggestions are marginal in space, for two reasons:

• Space is big. No-one is getting particularly close to your mining operation unless they're actually headed for you.
• Space is quite devoid of concealment. Without super-stealth drives, no-one is visiting your mining operation without being seen by the local traffic control equivalent.

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Not another shrubbery

Not that Mars... more like the one this guy came from *g*

I loved collecting those when I was a kid :)

I still want to find the movie where there were human-like aliens and that-like aliens.

[Langy]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

I still want to find the movie where there were human-like aliens and that-like aliens.

I don't know about human-like aliens, but that exact alien design was used in the movie Mars Attacks! I think the linked image might be from the trading card series that the movie is based upon.

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Langy

I don't know about human-like aliens, but that exact alien design was used in the movie Mars Attacks! I think the linked image might be from the trading card series that the movie is based upon.

No, some movie from the 80s, maaaybe early 90s.