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

[Clinton N. Fell]

An Idea on this that may work for low tech would be to go back to the 
basics.  Use your hydroponic - food/air processing plants to make the 
complicated cellulose needed for the explosives.  As long as there is 
enough sun in the asteroids to run a "greenhouse" you should be able to 
produce limited amounts of organic explosives from the plant wastes (at 
the cost of fertilizer and food).  So the explosives would likely be 
expensive but producible.

Keep in mind it has been more than a decade since I have had any organic 
chemistry - so my details may be foggy.

Clint



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Nigel McCarty-Eigenmann wrote:

> The problems arethe restrictions on the available technology as the 
setting
> doesn't have a tech base to work from.  It has some givens but not the 
base
> you would expect from being a space based environment.  Niched 
knowledge.

Seriously, you're well into the handwave territory here -- the logical 
consequence of this setup is "everybody dies".  Not to say that 
handwaves are unacceptable in SF, but applying realism probably won't 
tell you much of use for setting design.
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