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

[Nigel McCarty-Eigenmann]

> 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.

Which was what I'd hoped and seemd to think from my reading of some
websites...

...the setting will be locked down to only the resources from the asteroids.
No planet.  I am looking into how I can lock down energy without being truly
deus-ex.
 
> > 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.

Technolgy is higher limited in specificity. The short answer is its
post-collapse-sorta-steampunk-space.  The long answer is kinda long and I'm
not sure I wanna risk it in public until I know its not an actually _good_
idea :)

McE