[Spaceships] Total life support

The Colonel · 08-26-2009, 02:29 PM

I might add that there's no reason for total life support to be common unless you're in a no-FTL setting. Even as described it's complicated and involves all sorts of fussy components and a boatload of different skills to keep it working.
Compare to real life SSBNs - they spend months in what might as well be hard vacuum (except for a bit of water desalinisation), without contacting any source of re-supply and yet no-one has yet shown any interest in producing food aboard one.

08-26-2009, 02:29 PM	#6
The Colonel Join Date: Jul 2006	Re: [Spaceships] Total life support I might add that there's no reason for total life support to be common unless you're in a no-FTL setting. Even as described it's complicated and involves all sorts of fussy components and a boatload of different skills to keep it working. Compare to real life SSBNs - they spend months in what might as well be hard vacuum (except for a bit of water desalinisation), without contacting any source of re-supply and yet no-one has yet shown any interest in producing food aboard one.