A perfectly acceptable creation and application, I'd make it so that the chemical energy source would have to be added later.
Derek Stanley
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> On Feb 8, 2014, at 7:00 PM, "David Jaques-Watson" <> wrote:
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> As others have said, 3D printers work great as "fabricators" - an non-magical (i.e. Traveller) version of replicators.
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> FWIW, I'm running the "Grand Tour" adventure, and the PCs went thru Vincennes on their way to knighthoods at Deneb.
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> Our intrepid journalist (Akidda) decided he wanted a floating cameraman robot, which our travellin' roboticist (Dr Krenstein) took up as a challenge. I had the player rolling dice to develop the 'bot as Krenstein's jump-space "hobby", including creating the frame and outer shell as a 3D printable creation. When they got to Vincennes, Krenstein took the design (on his hand-comp) to a local fabricator, and had it 3D-printed ou t.
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> It meant that in the two weeks they were in-system, they could build a 'bot from scratch, without the complications of re-tooling a manufacturing plant to produce a one-off item.
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> David "Hyphen" Jaques-Watson ..at.. Beowulf Down (Tavonni/Vilis/SM 1520)
> http://www.tip.net.au/~davidjw
> "I file things in historical order, with a hashing algorithm of gravity"
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Derek Stanley
Sent from my iPad
> On Feb 8, 2014, at 7:00 PM, "David Jaques-Watson" <> wrote:
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> Dear Folks -
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>
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> As others have said, 3D printers work great as "fabricators" - an non-magical (i.e. Traveller) version of replicators.
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>
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> FWIW, I'm running the "Grand Tour" adventure, and the PCs went thru Vincennes on their way to knighthoods at Deneb.
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>
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> Our intrepid journalist (Akidda) decided he wanted a floating cameraman robot, which our travellin' roboticist (Dr Krenstein) took up as a challenge. I had the player rolling dice to develop the 'bot as Krenstein's jump-space "hobby", including creating the frame and outer shell as a 3D printable creation. When they got to Vincennes, Krenstein took the design (on his hand-comp) to a local fabricator, and had it 3D-printed ou t.
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> It meant that in the two weeks they were in-system, they could build a 'bot from scratch, without the complications of re-tooling a manufacturing plant to produce a one-off item.
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> David "Hyphen" Jaques-Watson ..at.. Beowulf Down (Tavonni/Vilis/SM 1520)
> http://www.tip.net.au/~davidjw
> "I file things in historical order, with a hashing algorithm of gravity"
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