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

[Nigel McCarty-Eigenmann]

> Well, if you have steam-punk technology, why not just have a 
> flame under/around a sealed sphere full of water?  The 
> intensity and size of the eventual explosion would depend on 
> the size and thickness of the shell, just don't expect them 
> to go off at a moment's notice...

Too random and of limited directionality for demolition use.
 
> I'd like to know where they are going to get the fuel and 
> water for their steam-drive in space though...
> Not to mention the air to breathe(assuming they are not 
> floating around in some sort of a gaseous torus like in 
> Integral Trees)

They arent.

I'll post a basic image tomorrow.  Should not use too high 
image things... Tiied me down to a specific period in the 
minds of the readers.... Stupid in retrospect.

They are starting with a resource base. And trying to survive with what they
have left.

A short version is that this a kludge of leftovers and remainders.  
They have some biospheres and some machines that can take resources from
asteroids - and iceteroids.
They harvest for scrap.  They try to recycle and make from what they can
scavenge.
And they fight one another over the scraps.

Long version coming.  Copyright McE :)