From:	Robert Watkins <bob@**.NTU.EDU.AU>
Subject:	Re: Life in space
Date:	Thu, 21 Oct 1993 07:46:21 +0930

Daishi writes:
>The Deb Decker writes:
>>I write:
>> >As for Obiwan, the Star Wars series is set in a galaxy where there is
>> >atmosphere between the stars. (Hence such things as Han and Leia getting out
of
>> >the Falcon in the asteriod wearing nothing more than clothes and
respirators).
>>
>> There were inside a giant worm that probably had enough pressureized gas to
>> keep them from exploding, as well as being warm enough to keep them from
>> freezing to death (besides which, they were dressed for cold weather
>> anyway). You cannot breath in Star Wars space.
>>
>What's all this about Obiwan and no actually mentioning Luke. If I remember
>correctly he sent a couple photon torpedos down an exhaust vent with the force
>as a guidence system. All he had was a small cockpit of atmosphere and him
>the only life in it. So either this corallary is completely irrelevant to SR
>or you can use magic in space assuming you have some kinda life support (and
>if you didn't you wouldn't be worrying about using magic for long anyway :-)).
>Of course astral perception is completely different, the above would apply to
>phys adds which i saw mentioned somewhere.. :-). (Maybe you can astral to the
>edge of your aura or the collected auras of the crew?)

What I was saying is that with the universal atmosphere, and other neat tricks,
a more or less uniform biosphere could exist in Star Wars space, which would
let SR style magic work there.
>
>Isn't there somesort of info on spacestations and such in one of the novels or
>am I thinking of some Gibson novel?
>
They mention Zurich Orbital in a couple of them (mainly Shadowplay). Is that
what you're thinking off?? And they touch on it BRIEFLY in NAGRL.

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