Hot Water Planet
Boats, pictures and other stuff created for my space adventures and games on the HotWaterPlanet.feb/03 slight delay in the rules as I work out boarding rules. Check out my Gladiator page which is my POC for “Deck” rules.
Note about the planet: The whole planet is a shallow (3-6m) sea with a deep layer of thin black volcanic ash mud below the surface. No land masses. Volcanic lumps of gas filled rock do rise and sink back at random times. Some may stay at the surface for days and others even weeks before sinking back. The mud ranges from 82C to 94C. While the water above is cooled by the thin -10C air. Low pressure Steam and later Direct-Conversion is used to power many types of ships, subs, and even floating cities. When large island size nodes of useful ore emerge from the volcanic depths, Gold-Rush, swarms of boats come from cities in all directions. Bitter contests, fights and even wars over these floating ore nodes is all too common.
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Lord Sterlingbrick’s Tubina IV. The great great grandson of Lord Sterlingbrick has reconstructed the original Mark IV from the family archives.
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This class of Tug has been in use for over 200 years and still are found working the docks of remote cities.
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The Cuttlefish subs saw long service with the great battleships of the 100 year Node Wars and did not see many changes from this design. However the small engines did lead to the development of the Direct-Converter used in many ships on HWP today.
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The Ramglo Excavator ship is the most modern of those in use today. With its hot-wet-boom design it is able to: grind, wash, and suck up even the hardest of ore nodes. Boom lowers right to the water line to get those last bits.
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