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

[Pauli Hakala]

Anthony Jackson wrote:
> Nigel McCarty-Eigenmann wrote:
> 
>> They have limited access to technology. Kludges and homemades are the 
>> valid
>> routes.
> 
> Then they won't be able to make the explosives in the first place, at 
> least at any remotely reasonable cost (they'll have some nitrogen 
> compounds, but those are part of life support).
> 

What about FAE (fuel-air-explosive) devices? .. Fuel and oxidizer,
you can get these out of asteroid ice via simple water electrolysis.
AFAIK, FAE does have a certain fairly substantial minimum practical
size however, which does limit it's use for only bigger explosions
- you'd be destroying a building or knocking down a wall with
a huge fireball instead of more discreetly blowing off a lock from
a door..


-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)