[Spaceships] Interstellar Colony Ships

Langy · 10-12-2009, 04:22 AM

Yeah, I know - it's not particularly worth it to send it back. Then again, the ramscoop's useless to the colony afterwards and is just sitting there. They might be able to dismantle it for some raw materials, but with forty thousand tons of mining and industrial ships for ten thousand people there's not much point to that, either. So they send them back in the hopes they can be reused instead of completely wasted.

I had hoped the ramship would be able to travel rather faster than it currently can, maybe making Alpha Centauri in twenty years instead of sixty, but that would require it to have about ten times as much thrust. After a forty-year round trip, that $30B ramscoop would be worth significantly more than 5% of its original purchase price.

I'm considering forgetting returning the ramscoop and just making them cost ten percent of their current purchase price. I don't like the idea that the ramscoop costs more than the entire rest of the colony by itself.

10-12-2009, 04:22 AM	#3
Langy Join Date: May 2008 Location: CA	Re: [Spaceships] Interstellar Colony Ships Yeah, I know - it's not particularly worth it to send it back. Then again, the ramscoop's useless to the colony afterwards and is just sitting there. They might be able to dismantle it for some raw materials, but with forty thousand tons of mining and industrial ships for ten thousand people there's not much point to that, either. So they send them back in the hopes they can be reused instead of completely wasted. I had hoped the ramship would be able to travel rather faster than it currently can, maybe making Alpha Centauri in twenty years instead of sixty, but that would require it to have about ten times as much thrust. After a forty-year round trip, that $30B ramscoop would be worth significantly more than 5% of its original purchase price. I'm considering forgetting returning the ramscoop and just making them cost ten percent of their current purchase price. I don't like the idea that the ramscoop costs more than the entire rest of the colony by itself.