comet colonies

[nobby-w]

Has anybody done much with inhabited comets in Traveller?

I don't recall seeing any in the books I own, but there is a metric tonne of stuff I have never even seen.


What TL do you think would be necessary to settle on (or inside) a comet?

Something to dig it out with and a reason to go there. Bearing in mind that comets spend a lot of their time in awkward locations way out in the outer system, there would have to be a good reason to set up shop there. On the plus side, there's plenty of raw material to make fuel from.

If you have fusion power then TL9. If you don't then TL 8, although you would have to import radioactives for fuel. PV cells on a comet that spends most of its time in the oort cloud aren't going to produce enough power.

The URL below is a link farm on space habitats that I compiled a couple of years ago. The executive summary is 125 dt per inhabitant for a permanent habitat.

http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/showthread.php?t=39589

 

[coliver988]

Then they discover oil.

or Lanthanum and suddenly they are in the business of creating jump coils.

 

[AndreaV]

And if your ship needs more than an hour of work, why not drop by the cantina? Or visit the girls at the Lonely Luriani?[/I]

Ahh, Luriani, sexpots of the 3rd Imperium lol. I do wonder if anyone plays them as anything else.

 

[BwapTED]

Ahh, Luriani, sexpots of the 3rd Imperium lol. I do wonder if anyone plays them as anything else.

I went with Luriani because of alliteration and for the similarity to Lorelei.

 

[AndreaV]

I went with Luriani because of alliteration and for the similarity to Lorelei.

Hey seems to fit with the general imperial impression of them