Asteroid Bases

[Jame]

First, do any of you use asteroid bases? I.E. for a pirate or naval base?

Second, Does anyone have a good asteroid base plan?

These would be very useful in certain places, or plots...

 

[mike wightman]

First, do any of you use asteroid bases? I.E. for a pirate or naval base?

Yep, and also for Way Stations, training facilities, Scout bases/covert listening posts, merchant "truck stops", research sations, Mega corp bases and probably a few I've forgotten.

Second, Does anyone have a good asteroid base plan?

I generally use the plans from Beltstrike and sometimes Fate of the Sky Raiders for generic asteroid facilities, anything special is made up as needed.

 

[shield]

Asteroid bases tned to be of two types, covert military ones where they are using the asteroid to hide in, and commercial ones (belter sites etc.) because asteroids are cheap. There is an asteroid city in one of the gurps JTAS mags. There are underground cities in Alien realms and the big traveller adventure - they are similar to an asteroid city.

I have used an asteroid base as a covert base for solomani raiders in the rebellion era.

As for maps - There is a issue of challenge with a TNE adventure that has a small covert asteroid base (a hideaway to get to the new era. Beltstrike, and Fate of the skyraiders are good sources. There has been a few in challenge, and some of the starwars adventures (both in challenge and the proper ones had asteroid bases).

Cheers
Richard

 

[shield]

Asteroid bases tned to be of two types, covert military ones where they are using the asteroid to hide in, and commercial ones (belter sites etc.) because asteroids are cheap. There is an asteroid city in one of the gurps JTAS mags. There are underground cities in Alien realms and the big traveller adventure - they are similar to an asteroid city.

I have used an asteroid base as a covert base for solomani raiders in the rebellion era.

As for maps - There is a issue of challenge with a TNE adventure that has a small covert asteroid base (a hideaway to get to the new era. Beltstrike, and Fate of the skyraiders are good sources. There has been a few in challenge, and some of the starwars adventures (both in challenge and the proper ones had asteroid bases).

Cheers
Richard

 

[robject]

For extremely large asteroid arcologies, I might suggest getting the streetmap from a town or small city and wrapping it 'round itself... essentially spreading it all along the inner wall of the asteroid itself, leaving generous space at the 'poles' for biomass, agriculture, air scrubber equipment and what-have-you. Fix a small fusion light source in the center of the planetoid space for a 'sun' and voila'.

 

[LordVince]

robject, I doff my space helmet to you, sir! Brilliant. That is such a simple idea....and I had never thought of it, myself. It is elegant in it's simplicity.