From:	"Mark Steedman" <M.J.Steedman@***.rgu.ac.uk>
Subject:	Re: sidebars & potty mouth
Date:	Thu, 12 Sep 1996 13:33:20 GMT

Gurth writes

> Mark Steedman said on 16:29/11 Sep 96...
>
> > I decided on this after designing the 'Astral Trash Compacter' i
> > posted the details of a few months back.
>
> I thought that was last year somewhere... Time flies when you're having
> fun :)
>
was it ? i don't know, i have had such a busy year 1995 seems ages
ago, you might be more accurate and i don't have time to search my
posting records to find it.

> > That usde orrialcum and predates FAB by over a year though i have yet
> > to use it (the facility it is installed in has so far beaten the
> > runners that have tried it before they got that far)
>
> Maybe you could build an improved version, using FAB? I'd guess that a
> corp willing to install one of those compactors would try to get the
> orichalcum out when an alternative becomes available.
>
You certainly could use FAB for the stationary walls, i think the
complex in question used FAB in a few places, certainly in the gap
between floors 1 and 2, under a grassy hill delt with the roof. For
mobile items such as doors though FAB starts to be difficult to keep
alive permenantly.
Orialcum is made of 4 fairly soft metals and considering how fine you
can make things in gold a 10g unit of orialcum could go a distance as
walls only need a grid pattern of tiny flakes every 10cm or so to
stop magicians. The one off cost of 88K a unit is moderate when you
consider warding a room would cost around 1K a day just in materials
and enchanting adepts can make orialcum.

It's the 'supersoilders' with armour coated like this that really
annoys players, yes it costs the Earth but so does filling them with
beta or better grade cyber. This trick is legal as far as i can tell
and much fairer than those silly negamages that are totally inmune to
magic or even astral detection. (i've met those wearing ruthemoid
polymers and there plain impossible to detect with nearly anything,
yes ultrasound works but whos got it)

Mark