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

[Anthony Jackson]

Nigel McCarty-Eigenmann wrote:

> 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.

Why is this key to whatever you're doing? Incidentally, planetary 
remnants won't be a lot different from asteroids unless the incident is 
very recent, the reason the inner system asteroids are depleted in 
volatiles is because it evaporates into space, and freezing won't 
prevent that (it just sublimates). If you actually need large quantities 
of volatiles, a comet is made up of the stuff you need, but there's 
probably enough for most purposes in a C-type asteroid.

> 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.

What are the explosives being used for in this setting? I have trouble 
thinking of any applications -- you're going to be needing to generate 
electricity to separate compounds and recombine them into explosives, 
and much of the time it will be more efficient to just use the 
electricity to directly do what you would have used the explosives for.