Post by Sojourner on Dec 23, 2003 13:38:11 GMT -5
Kage, if you've got some spare time to GURPS a civilian vehicle...?
I'm looking to assign some characteristics to the giant permafrost grinding machines on my planet.
As an idea, there are various designs as many of them are *extremely* old, but they tend to be between 30 and 80 metres long, driven by tracks and powered by methane gas turbines, themselves obtaining fuel from crushed glacial ice.
They feature a semi-computerised control deck, mostly simple control processors rather than advanced 'true' computers, a crew of engineers and navigators around 20 or 30 strong, basic crew quarters, supplies and life support for two month's travel.
The 'bow' as it were, is composed of a serrated steel grinding drum which spins at several thousand rpm, feeding crushed ice into boilers which seperate the trapped gas, mineral solution, and solid particulates and scree.
Most models of harvester simply dump the solid matter into storage silos, either carried onboard on larger models, or carried by tender vehicles which follow in the wake of the smaller ones. Only the very largest posess smelters to process metals from the ground rock.
Hope this is enough information; not having a copy of GURPS I can't do it myself, but maybe this stuff is useful for someone else to see.
I'm looking to assign some characteristics to the giant permafrost grinding machines on my planet.
As an idea, there are various designs as many of them are *extremely* old, but they tend to be between 30 and 80 metres long, driven by tracks and powered by methane gas turbines, themselves obtaining fuel from crushed glacial ice.
They feature a semi-computerised control deck, mostly simple control processors rather than advanced 'true' computers, a crew of engineers and navigators around 20 or 30 strong, basic crew quarters, supplies and life support for two month's travel.
The 'bow' as it were, is composed of a serrated steel grinding drum which spins at several thousand rpm, feeding crushed ice into boilers which seperate the trapped gas, mineral solution, and solid particulates and scree.
Most models of harvester simply dump the solid matter into storage silos, either carried onboard on larger models, or carried by tender vehicles which follow in the wake of the smaller ones. Only the very largest posess smelters to process metals from the ground rock.
Hope this is enough information; not having a copy of GURPS I can't do it myself, but maybe this stuff is useful for someone else to see.
.i've alsodone a hover factory and a transport truck,