Generation Starships

[Keiko]

Originally Posted by cptbutton

Well, one obvious way to avoid the whole problem of more advanced people beating you there would be to find some way to kill everything in the solar system when you leave.

That sounds like it could be the plot of 2100 iteration of a James Bond film. In a very way! I like it.

[jeff_wilson]

Originally Posted by cptbutton

Well, one obvious way to avoid the whole problem of more advanced people beating you there would be to find some way to kill everything in the solar system when you leave.

Ah, you've reinvented The World Of Tomorrow.

Originally Posted by Keiko

That sounds like it could be the plot of 2100 iteration of a James Bond film. In a very way! I like it.

It was a 2004 movie.

[cptbutton]

Originally Posted by Keiko

That sounds like it could be the plot of 2100 iteration of a James Bond film. In a very way! I like it.

Yup. Moonraker 2100 with more zeros on the end. But will Jaws be a super-advanced bioroid or some kind of AI cybershell?

[Keiko]

Originally Posted by cptbutton

Yup. Moonraker 2100 with more zeros on the end. But will Jaws be a super-advanced bioroid or some kind of AI cybershell?

Lets go with AI, it would make how he keeps coming back a little more understandable. :D

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by cptbutton

Well, one obvious way to avoid the whole problem of more advanced people beating you there would be to find some way to kill everything in the solar system when you leave.

Finally a "scorched earth" policy that isn't just hyperbole.

[Astromancer]

Originally Posted by jeff_wilson

This would have to be an actual concern rather than just a front, because you'd need to have ships and hab crews visibly coming and going to keep appearances.

True enough. But then there would be a market for these things in the setting anyway. We all know about the Purloined Letter (the url is for those who forgot). What better place to hide the building of a fleet of unique and advanced ships than a shipyard specialising in such things?

[Johnny1A.2]

Originally Posted by Keiko

Lets go with AI, it would make how he keeps coming back a little more understandable. :D

Bioroid works just as well for that, if you can make 1 Jaws bioroid, you can make 100. If Bond kills Jaws 33, Dr. Dire just activates #34.

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Astromancer

What better place to hide the building of a fleet of unique and advanced ships than a shipyard specialising in such things?

Well, given that people will spy on such a shipyard as a matter of principle, you'd be better off doing it somewhere totally boring.

[Astromancer]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Well, given that people will spy on such a shipyard as a matter of principle, you'd be better off doing it somewhere totally boring.

Placing advanced drives in totally borring places would be exotic and would bring attention as well. Stick to the K.I.S.S. principle.

[LordMunchkin]

Just on a side note, how would you build a generation ship using Spaceships for TL10? Doesn't the robo-fac need component parts? Does Spaceships provide rules for building stuff out of raw materials?