One of the common adventure hooks that I've seen is the "lost ship"; it could be a rumor of a ship from centuries past, a derelict that's found drifting in an asteroid belt that has no clues to its origin or age, or any one of a number of different plots, but they all have a common thread that the ship has been in space - vacuum - for a considerable amount of time. Which leads me to wonder about what damage prolonged vacuum exposure might result. What would weaken or fail, what would be ok, etc. Granted, the materials science of the various empires, and Imperiums, probably found a solution, but what about the lower tech societies or if they didn't? We know that some ships have been in service for decades or more, and then they're put in mothballs and stored at a depot, so something must have been developed. I'm curious what this might be or the effects. -- Kurt Feltenberger xxxxxx@thepaw.org/xxxxxx@yahoo.com “Before today, I was scared to live, after today, I'm scared I'm not living enough." - Me
