Rakhasa Wrote:Quote:HRogge wrote:I know. I will confess than I meant to simply "magic" the excavator into a construction droid, but I suspected it would be excessive; that's why I finally had the original 'wave to just change the arm and all the rest of the construction elements will have to be built and added later.
Just don't forget that Handwavium is not magic, so don't overdo the flexibility of your ideas.
Difficult, very difficult... these things are huge, and stealing one would definitely nothing you can easily do.
Maybe build a "miniature version" later on the moon, the original ones are 200+m long, up to 100 meter high and have a mass of up to 14000 tons.
And what do you meant, "miniature"? Spoil all the awesomeness? Bigger Is Better. But I did not plan to steal it, rather buy (or build) one. Except for the initial theft, done while running in fear for his life (or so he thought), I planned to make Oscar as honest as possible when you are an insane handwavium mad doctor living in the moon. With a private lab.
Just keep things in mind as "where the hell do I get the stuff to build the excavator" and everything is fine.
One problem as an early Fen is that there is no support infrastructure. Nothing where you can buy stuff or get help. If your original excavator doesn't have a dual-door airlock, your dog (for example) would simply die the first time your leave your Excavator to wave some stuff you have built with the moondust around.
Building something with a mass of 10000+ tons is a huge thing for a single person, there are thousands of small things you will need to get and to work on before you can even get close to it. Don't make everything look to easy, otherwise you quickly loose projects for the future. ^^