[gurps] David's Space Background

[David Scheidt]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Onno Meyer <Onno.Meyer at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Oskemoi Heavy Industries, PLC of Binf is a major producer of
>> starships.  I'd suspect they also make small craft.  Binf has been
>> settled for a long time (about a thousand years); it's a good place to
>> be from, not to be.  It's a marginal world, with a history of violent
>> supression of political protest.  Surface side population are stuck in
>> their domes, the ruling orbital elite aren't above dropping a big rock
>> on a dome they think is too uppity.
>
> Does 'dome' mean 'no breathable atmosphere' or 'no atmosphere'? Binf
> sounds like the planet for big, efficient, robotic shuttles and OTVs.
>

No breathable atmosphere.  It's a nasty bunch of sulfur compounds.
There's a native biota, but there's not enough insolation to make
terraforming straight-forward.  When it was first settled, a set of
orbital mirrors were built, to increase the insolation.  About the
time that was starting to change the environment, there was a nasty
civil war, which resulted in the destruction of all but one mirror,
the beanstalk, and killed several tens of millions of people.  There's
tension among the factions in control; some would like to increase
bio-rehabilitation, others don't, because it would reduce control of
the orbitals.  The pro-terraforming faction are currently ascendent,
but nothing much has yet happened.


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David Scheidt
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