[gurps] Tinker's Starship?

[Wyrm]

Onno Meyer wrote:
>>>  Will the expensive factory spend months idle in transit or can
>>>  it travel fast enough to be kept busy working on the basic load
>>>  of on-board raw materials?
>> I think it would be difficult to make much in transit since most of
>> the cargo is "additives"  (rarer elements).  Probably enough common
>> material for repairs.
> 
> Spend the transit time making low-mass, high-effort parts. Even for 
> a nanofac, an uniform metal structure with tolerances in the millions 
> of atoms (the hull) will be faster than intricate TL13 electronics 
> (photonics? quantum electronics? whatever ...). 

Don't you mean low volume not low mass? The ship has a stored mass of 
raw material, making low mass objects is pointless as the total mass of 
the ship will not change. Making low volume objects on the other hand 
will increase the number of goods one has in inventory at planet fall.

> 
> Do you know Excession by Iain M. Banks? The details would be a 
> spoiler :-)
>  
> Onno
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