[gurps] Sub Trek

[Tom Sparks]

----- Original Message ----

From: Onno Meyer <Onno.Meyer at gmx.de>
To: jayphailey at yahoo.com; The GURPSnet mailing list <gurpsnet-l at sjgames.com>
Sent: Saturday, 13 December, 2008 7:42:41 PM
Subject: Re: [gurps] Sub Trek


>* At a first glance Uplift covers cetacean crewmembers, but those 
> dolphins were gengineered to breathe oxygenated water. Perhaps 
> the best way would be to subsume them in the dry dock stats. No
 >rule says that dry docks can't open to the bridge, or that they have
 >to be emptied completely.

drawin witch was the dolphin was NOT uplifted or  gengineered
he used a aqualung/scuba like device


>Onno

----- Original Message ----
From: Onno Meyer <Onno.Meyer at gmx.de>
To: The GURPSnet mailing list <gurpsnet-l at sjgames.com>
Sent: Saturday, 13 December, 2008 7:56:11 PM
Subject: Re: [gurps] Sub Trek

>Tom replied to Jay who replied to me:

>The biggest and best, but not the only ship of the UEO, right?
yes

> I agree, there could of been some unexplained technology that the ship had
> to deal with the deep ocean pressures like star trek warp drive?

There are basically two ways to deal with pressure:
(1) Live under pressure and adapt the body to it.
(2) Use a pressure-proof hull and keep the internal pressure normal.

>Option (1) runs into biological limits once you want to go deep, or 
>change depth quickly, unless you do fairly drastic changes. GURPS
>Bio-Tech talks about it (at least G3E Bio-Tech does, my new one is 
>on loan to a friend). The wonder tech could be gengineered 
>symbiotes or nanites in the body to patch cells and manage the 
>pressure changes.

>Option (2) can be made to work, witness the Bathyscape or Alvin, 
>but it makes it impossible to go out in unarmored suits. The wonder
>tech would be simply strong but lightweight materials for all subs 
>and their subcraft. TL8 or TL9 advanced armor might do the job. 

>Option (2) sounds better to me, if you accept that below a certain
>depth all EVA is in armored suits. 

I do think that seaquest had a double hull
but there are aspects that make it a ambient pressure ship, also,
the moon pools, the water corridors (Bridger's follys)


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