[Ogre] It's raining heavies

[Steve Gray]

I think we know someone who can help you with this.
His  name is Joe Vail.

--- "John D. Gwinner" <jgwinner at dazsi.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to create a scenario with Ogre's and
> Heavies on Mars.
> 
> GEV's wouldn't works so well, but I figure a Heavy
> might be big enough
> you could have some life support (air/portalet)
> added to it, so the
> crews could operate on Mars.
> 
> The next question: how to get them there?
> 
> Does anyone think even with reduced gravity, that
> they could be dropped
> from orbit using the air bag method used so well
> with robots?  Even at
> Mars gravity, that's a lot of weight.
> 
> My scenario also has an orbital elevator, so I was
> thinking maybe they
> got smuggled to the surfce in sealed cargo
> containers.  Land the crew,
> shoot up the port, pop the containers, and voila, an
> invading army.
> 
> My problem with that is that the orbital elevator
> would be at Pavonis
> Mons, and that's a ways away from anything
> interesting, so the vehicles
> would have to drive several hundred or thousand
> miles to attack.  With
> technology in the late 21st, would a tank be capable
> of several hundred
> or a thousand miles travel without a lot of
> maintenance?
> 
> I'd drop light / missle tanks, but I don't think
> they'd be big enough to
> have the room to add some oxygen bottles, but let's
> face it, with the
> hostile battlefield in the Ogreverse, maybe that's
> built in.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> 		== John ==
> 
> P.S.  Ok, this is actually back drop to a story I'm
> writing about
> colonies on Mars, but I'm trying to make the
> scenario realistic.  The
> "CP" in this case is a 'bubble city' on Mars.
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