Just a Matter of Time ...

[rust]

Unless of course bring back the ship is cheaper than building a new one.

It actually is much cheaper.

The current hyperdrive just moves the ship from normal space into
hyperspace, where it then "falls" in a straight line and at a constant
speed, unable to accelerate or maneuver, towards the destination,
until the hyperdrive is used again to move the ship from hyperspace
back to normal space. The ship's movement through hyperspace is
a result of the "topography" of hyperspace, it does not require any
engines or fuel.

Unfortunately the movement is rather slow. The best way to become
rich and famous and the proud and admired owner of a Nobel Prize
would be to invent a real hyperdrive, one which enables the ship to
accelerate and maneuver in hyperspace. This drive has been "no mo-
re than twenty years away" for a couple of decades, many research
teams are working on it, and the necessary breakthrough can happen
any day now [and will happen during the timeline of the campaign,
which will change the Ashara colony's situation significantly].

 

[rust]

What sort of terraforming is Ashara doing?

It is a purely biological terraforming, using genetically modified
bacteria, algae and lichens to change the albedo of the planet
(making it more dark and therefore able to absorb more heat,
which also helps to free water from the polar ice caps and from
the frozen subterranean aquifers), to produce oxygen from the
planet's nitrogen - carbon dioxide atmosphere, and to enrich
the planet's surface with organic material in order to create fer-
tile soil. This approach to terraforming takes longer than a "bru-
te force" approach with lots of expensive technology, but it re-
quires only a good microbiology and genetics laboratory.

 

[2330ADUSA1]

A much better sure fire result doing it through bio works than to use the brute force guess work approach. Better way to control the effort.

 

[Dave Chase]

You think you like this world/universe concept of rust's, then you should have seen his others one.

rustverse is a wonder place to be in.

Dave Chase

 

[rust]

rustverse is a wonder place to be in.

Thank you very much indeed.

 

[2330ADUSA1]

Crashing asteroids into a planet, leave a unknown factor and unclear control to the end result. There is just to much chance of unknown elements in that process to risk using it. Granted even in the Bio path there is still a possibility of unknown, but a much more controllable path.

 

[Hopeless]

I assume there's no evidence of civilisation even if the world was subject to a cataclysm that might explain its current environment?

My first thought was wondering if you have read the dinosaur planet by Anne McCaffrey I recall it was expanded into a series that also involved one of the main characters having survived a crashed spaceship but discovered that when she was rescued that she needed retraining as some of her skills were out of date as a minor character in that series discovered his own speciality field as a scientist had been rendered obsolete when he was recovered! :shock:

Have you seen any episode of the Outcast series which dealt a little along these lines though were farther along the process...

Earth 2 involved a colonisation effort that ended up being one way but that was mostly due to the authorities having problems trying to secure sole access to the world they were heading to!

Are they mining the systems of these colonies or potential colonies to help finance their colonisation effort?

What else is there in the star systems these two worlds dwell within?

Solar Power Satellites?

Do they have gas giants, will you be planning on making this humanocentric or is there other life out there?

Sorry you caught my interest!

 

[AndrewW]

My first thought was wondering if you have read the dinosaur planet by Anne McCaffrey I recall it was expanded into a series that also involved one of the main characters having survived a crashed spaceship but discovered that when she was rescued that she needed retraining as some of her skills were out of date as a minor character in that series discovered his own speciality field as a scientist had been rendered obsolete when he was recovered! :shock:

Her...

Was a medic, yes one of the planet pirate books focused on her.

But it wasn't a crashed spaceship, was a mutiny by some of the others that where part of the group researching the planet. Though she was also involved in a couple of other incidents involving going into cold sleep to survive prior to that.

 

[rust]

I assume there's no evidence of civilisation even if the world was subject to a cataclysm that might explain its current environment?

No, it is just a somewhat primordial planet without any history
concerning previous civilizations.

My first thought was wondering if you have read the dinosaur planet by Anne McCaffrey I recall it was expanded into a series that also involved one of the main characters having survived a crashed spaceship but discovered that when she was rescued that she needed retraining as some of her skills were out of date as a minor character in that series discovered his own speciality field as a scientist had been rendered obsolete when he was recovered! :shock:

Have you seen any episode of the Outcast series which dealt a little along these lines though were farther along the process...

Earth 2 involved a colonisation effort that ended up being one way but that was mostly due to the authorities having problems trying to secure sole access to the world they were heading to!

Unfortunately I have to pass on these ones, I did not read or see
any of them.

Are they mining the systems of these colonies or potential colonies to help finance their colonisation effort?

Not yet, and whether the colonists will start such a mining opera-
tion will depend on the decisions of the characters, it is more or
less up to them to determine the development of the colony with
their activities.

What else is there in the star systems these two worlds dwell within?

The Brahma System (= Beta Comae Berenices in our real universe)
has eight planets in my setting, two cold barren worlds, one planet
similar to Venus, the desert world Ashara, three hot barren worlds
and a small gas giant. The other system, where the Durani Colony
is situated, has not yet been designed in detail.

Solar Power Satellites?

No, they would be much too expensive for the small Ashara Colony,
the power the colony needs is provided by a fission reactor and by
solar panels and wind turbines.

Do they have gas giants, will you be planning on making this humanocentric or is there other life out there?

There is the one gas giant mentioned above in the Brahma System,
I have not yet decided whether there will be a has giant in the Dura-
ni System.
At least at the beginning of the campaign there will be no intelligent
aliens in the setting, but this could change during the campaign - I
leave it open for now.

Sorry you caught my interest!

No problem at all, quite the contrary.