----------| Am 07.05.2010 05:37 schrieb David Scheidt: |---------- > I'm fleshing out the one of settings for a game, and need some suggestions > about it. [...] How are > police, fire, health, and other public safety likely to be arranged? > Fire Fighting: fire is one of the most dangerous threats to a habitat as described by you. As such a structure is three-dimensional, cramped and confusing, a standing fire-brigade will not have a chance to be at location in time in case of an emergency - the professionals can only provide the backing of ordinary people already being there. So I would suggest that every resident is forced to attend a fire fighting training on a regular basis, and that there are frequent fire drills - something that is not very popular amongst the people because the precautions against a real fire are strict and therefore it is quite seldom that this kind of knowledge is really needed.
Another thread to such a habitat is "Structural Instability", short "SI", what is a paraphrase for "hull breach". In a structure that homes 100 million sophonts most rooms should not be a direct neighbour to vacuum, but on the other hand, any structure a thousand years old will have its weak spots. So I would suggest that you design a special service that takes care of "SI" cases. Again, the residents should be trained for the case of a hull breach, but different from the case of a fire it is not that easy for a bystander to do anything else than run. Police I think is not different from that in other large metropolitan areas; perhaps they have one or the other new crime to look after, some conditions may be different from that on a planet's surface, but those are minor and should have gone routine after a thousand years now. Pest Control may be much, much more important in Junction than it have been at any time on Earth - and the definition of "Pest" may be different as well. -- Thomas Thrien Geo 51° 28' 12" N 7° 32' 17" E _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
