Spaceships: Escape to the asteroids

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

How do you accidentally compress a fuel tank?

It's a colony ship, not a flying colony. It's presumably not intended for indefinite habitation, though I don't know how long the mission schedule is.

Also, unless I'm confused about the PF system, there's really nothing you can do to negate cosmic rays. With an insanely thick hull you might divide them by, say, 10.

The fuel not the tank, though denting the side of a full tank might do the job. NSW fuel is supposed to be just short of critical so you can make it go critical when you try and "burn" it.

A "colony" ship without a colony waiting for it at journey's end needs am very substantial industrial capacity and long tern habitability for the period of time the habitat is beign built. 20 people probably aren't enough for that job anyway..

.....and yes, you can shield agianst cosmic rays. It just takes a substantial amount of mass. Designs for L5 colonies take this into account. It's actually a substantial ortion of their mass budget. you can't do it in thin hulled ships though.

Please trust me on this. We went all through this at great length and in great detail during the Transhuman Space playtests.