[gurps] In space no one can hear you go boom!

[Pauli Hakala]

Nigel McCarty-Eigenmann wrote:
> In an environment with resources only from asteroids are explosives
> possible?
> 
> Can you get the chemical resources from the asteroids?
> 

Lots of processing hardware might be required, as well as several
megawatts worth of power plants. There are many kinds of explosives,
so what kind one should ideally make would depend on what kinds of
raw materials are present on the specific asteroid or cometlike body
in question. Hydrocarbons like frozen methane are entirely plausible
raw materials, as is water ice and various metal oxides.

If advanced nanotech is available and industrial blueprints are also
available (or can be made), just shovel enough dirty asteroid/comet snow
into a minifac, give it some time and out comes small chunks of plastic
explosives.


-Pauli
--
"Our ship is made out of darkness, she mocks the laws of nature.
With cables, ropes, tackle and sails, she moves on the waves
of the void. On her decks a red crew, dark as if painted with
blood. From among the hooded cloaks of crimson, eyes of
silver gleam darkly.. Oldest of all is Hiram of Malta, the Red
Commander. He knows the secrets of Schwarzchild Radii, of Neutron
Stars and Cepheids. His hidden paths we follow, like ghosts from
space we strike deep, only to disappear again soon, sometimes even
the fear itself is afraid of us.."
-CMX, Punainen Komentaja
(Translated from the Finnish song 'Red Commander' by CMX)