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
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