On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: >> Oskemoi Heavy Industries, PLC of Binf is a major producer of >> starships. I'd suspect they also make small craft. Binf has been >> settled for a long time (about a thousand years); it's a good place to >> be from, not to be. It's a marginal world, with a history of violent >> supression of political protest. Surface side population are stuck in >> their domes, the ruling orbital elite aren't above dropping a big rock >> on a dome they think is too uppity. > > Does 'dome' mean 'no breathable atmosphere' or 'no atmosphere'? Binf > sounds like the planet for big, efficient, robotic shuttles and OTVs. >
No breathable atmosphere. It's a nasty bunch of sulfur compounds. There's a native biota, but there's not enough insolation to make terraforming straight-forward. When it was first settled, a set of orbital mirrors were built, to increase the insolation. About the time that was starting to change the environment, there was a nasty civil war, which resulted in the destruction of all but one mirror, the beanstalk, and killed several tens of millions of people. There's tension among the factions in control; some would like to increase bio-rehabilitation, others don't, because it would reduce control of the orbitals. The pro-terraforming faction are currently ascendent, but nothing much has yet happened. -- David Scheidt [email protected] _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
