Fueling from an icy asteroid or rock? Bill Rutherford 07 Dec 2014 02:51 UTC
Hello, My players are, in desperation, en route to an icy rock to try to obtain fuel. The ship has fuel scoops and a refiner but it just sank in to me (but apparently has not to them, yet...) that scoops are for skimming. Somehow I don't imagine a fuel scoop being something like a wood chipper where you feed stuff in one end and out comes sawdust - er, water... It would seem plausible that the players would set up a pre-fab shelter of some sort, sealed to the (frozen) ground, and would essentially mine water within it, feeding the fuel refiner via hose or the like. OK - how full of holes is this, and how should it *really* (in the context of the game) be done? In advance, tx! Bill Rutherford xxxxxx@comcast.net