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

[Nigel McCarty-Eigenmann]

> > 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.

I am trying to decide if I can go with asteroids or whther I need to define
the asteroids as plenetary remenants - in which case I have frozen biosphere
- and all the biomass and nitrogen therin.  Methane may be a solution.
 
> 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.

True.  I am looking for a lower tech route first off.  While the settin g
_can_ have molecular filtering and indeed, minifacs, it wont really work
best if I have to rely on them for this aspect.

Ta.

McE