By the time you fell far enough into a GG's atmosphere to reach neutral buoyancy, you'd have much worse problems.

I had to repeat the MST3K Mantra all through the movie "Event Horizon" to allow myself to ignore the fact that a derelict ship was hanging high in Neptune's atmosphere for no apparent reason, and none of the rescue party remarked on this fact.


On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Timothy Collinson <timothy.collinson@port.ac.uk> wrote:



On 21 July 2014 23:49, Kurt Feltenberger <kurt@thepaw.org> wrote:
On 7/21/2014 4:36 PM, Christopher Hilton wrote:
This is an old story picked up by one of the news aggregators I read. Looks like a basis for a good adventure.

-- Chris

http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/ff_seacowboys?currentPage=all

This is a long read, but damn...it definitely reads like a Traveller adventure.

I was wondering if you could do something similar with a large freighter damaged during gas giant refuelling.  My technical knowledge isn't up to it, but would all 'buoyancy' in a GG atmosphere be from engines/thrusters (that could be failing) or might you have tanks that were giving buoyancy in the GG's atmosphere and needed dealing with like the ship?

It's particularly good in including ready made PCs with photos!

tc
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