[gurps] Tinker's Starship?

[Onno Meyer]

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> Datum: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:31:23 -0400
> Von: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt at gmail.com>
> An: "Troy Guffey" <troyguffey at cyberdude.com>, "The GURPSnet mailing list" <gurpsnet-l at sjgames.com>
> Betreff: Re: [gurps] Tinker\'s Starship?

> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Troy Guffey <troyguffey at cyberdude.com>
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> > Onno Meyer wrote:
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> >> Do you know Excession by Iain M. Banks? The details would be a
> >> spoiler :-)
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> > No, I don't know that story.  But I don't really care about spoilers.
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> In _Excession_, one of the Culture ships is an eccentric ship that's
> spent its time collecting and maintaining gas giant fauna, and the
> mass needed to support them.  For reasons to do with the plot, it
> dumps the fauna, and then converts the mass into a fleet of fighter
> ships, and is instantly the most powerful force in the galaxy.
> David Scheidt

Make that 'the most powerful force in the region', but otherwise, yes. 
And then there was the asteroid base whose computer spent decades
to refit nano-scale defenses to the stored warships.