[gurps] Farming without dry land

[Roger Burton West]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 05:15:15PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote:

>Depends on weather, to some extent.  One of my setting's major worlds
>is largely water, and hot.  There's a moderate amount of agriculture
>on the surface land, but it's all in domes.  The weekly cat 5
>hurricanes make growing things outside unlikely.  Water worlds are
>likely to have bad weather, which makes surface platforms hard to do.

At that point I'd tend to use the spacecraft modules, anchor them in
water deep enough not to have to worry about storms, and power them
with cables from the domes (if practical), solar cells (floating or
submerged), or some sort of nuclear reactor. Depends on the transport,
of course - it might be worth simply putting them right next to a
centre of population, since humans tend to want protection from cat 5
hurricanes too. :-)

R