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🕑 Added 2018-09-15 00:45:18 +0000 UTC INTERSTELLAR EMPIREexpanded section on 3D Empire Geometry
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/stellarempire.php#3empire
HABITAT MODULE
added to Minimum Living Volume a quote about Minimal Volume Spacecraft Cabin
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/habmod.php#mincabin
added new section Small Habitat Commonality
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/habmod.php#common
MINING
added new section Technological Destruction
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/mining.php#disruption
SPACE WARSHIP DESIGN
added to Alistair Young's Ship Types a quote about the Leviathan Dreadnought
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewarship.php#eldlev
COLONIZATION
added to Decay of the Fatherland a quote from The Mind Pool
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/stellarcolony.php#mindpool
TECH LEVEL
added new section Gravity Train
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/techlevel.php#gravtrain
ALIENS
added to Building Blocks a quote about Radiotrophic fungi
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/aliens.php#radfungus
LANDING
added to Landing Beacon a quote from Manna
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/landing.php#landingbeacon
FUTURE HISTORY
added to Where Is Terra? a quote from Dread Companion
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/futurehistory.php#dread
SIDEARM EXOTIC
added to Tangler quotes from Dread Companion and Breed To come
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/sidearmexotic.php#dread
SPACE LAW
added to The Code of Space a small quote from Dread Companion
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacelaw.php#android
CREW
added to Certifications a small quote about Spacer Service Bracelets
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/crew.php#catseye2
Comments
Nyrath
Many a truth is spoken in jest, and Douglas Adams was a very smart man
Programmable Spacecraft
So the Hitchhiker's Guide wasn't that far off when it mentioned using leaves as currency?
Nyrath
Agreed. About on par with people living in the Sahara Desert using sand as currency
John
Thinking about asteroids and gold made me remember the libertarian wet-dream webcomic "Escape from Terra" on the Big Head Press site. It was full of magical stuff, but the bit that really broke my suspension of disbelief was the fact that all the "belters" paid for everything in gold dust. I believe micrograms of it. Really? When the "waste" product of your average nickel/iron astroid will be enough gold to equal the current world output from mining? (Let alone all the metals in the platinum group.) Science Fantasy, not Science Fiction.
