"Soliciting ideas for another Full Thrust book" Topic

I am soliciting designs/SSDs for an upcoming Full Thrust book. This one will be for non-naval forces, bases, and other civilian facilities.

I'm looking at:
System defense ships
Shipyards (of various sizes)
Orbital defense bases
Planet-based defense facilities
Naval bases of various sizes
Beanstalks
Ship refueling facilities (orbiting over a gas giant)
Anything else you folk want to see that hasn't been covered yet.

Thoughts?

Hmm, what about these, for starters:

- Research facilities (with or without errant supercomputers and/or xeno infestations)
- Orbital factories & warehouses
- Solar collectors/power stations
- Weather modification satellites
- Resorts/Casinos/Drug dens (just beyond a planet's jurisdiction, of course)
- High security prisons (on asteroids or orbitals)

Hugh

Hugh,

All good ideas.

I had thought of power satellites, but wasn't sure if they would still be in use during the GZG timeline. I would assume that they are using either pure fusion or hydrogen + anti-hydrogen for power production.

Orbital warehouses with hangars for small craft + hangar for small freighters is high on the list of to-do's.

I am also looking at a one-use sub light semi-streamlined freighter to land on a planet and be dismantled to start a colony.

Many of those items are doable, but will obviously be helpless targets. :)

Media stations
Communication Arrays
Police , Search and Rescue Centres
Habitats of various classes
Derelict technology from earlier ages drifting trapped inside the system
Subject to the actual system conditions like
asteroids mining bases
comet research teams
derelict salvage
ion storms hardened shelters

Mysterious alien relics perhaps. Not antagonistic, just places to explore.

Could be good objectives for factions to duel over.

A station made up of derelict ships welded together-used as a Outstation in sparse areas.

Powered Asteroid Ships.

A orbital 'Crystal Palace' structure-Las Vegas?

Comet miniatures for whatever.

A Ring Station encircling a planet miniature

A not-Halo.

A Ringworld section or the space ledge of a Ringworld

Moby-Mir

Hey! I'm trying here!!!

Thanks for the ideas, keep them coming.

I suspect that many of them will be used mainly for special scenarios, not your run of the mill battle, but that's okay.

If anyone has miniatures in mind to go with their idea, please do send links if possible – saves me much searching the Net looking for suitable miniatures.

Generation ships / colony ships
Pleasure yachts
Solar sail racers
Mail / message ships (really fast and light, maybe surface to orbit only)
Orbital construction yards
Orbital telescopes / radiation sensors

A restaurant, preferably at the end of the universe.
sorry.

Manufacturing Plants and Ore Smelting plants as a station, asteroid base or moon base.

Anchor for a space elevator.

Target to fight over or destroy.
Rock mounted mass drivers used to move ore blocks to factories.

Hmmm…we have defense satellites listed, but what about blockade offensive tech satellites to keep a world planet bound. Think of an episode of first season DS9 where they basically lose the Bajoran religious leader on the one moon.

We've got a space elevator (Beanstalk). Problem is, the guys who were testing it decided that it needed a variable amount of damage points to destroy (based upon game size I think it was), so there's no SSD per se. But it might be possible to include it anyways with some notes as to how to make it work.

I've sent the first batch of ideas to Jim, and am waiting to see what he thinks. Many of the ideas, while cool, may be hard to do in FT. We'll see how it goes.

We've got an Ore smelting plant (Ore extraction facility) in the civilian fleet book.