<img src="/files/u8696/irontooth-station.jpg" alt="Outpost" height="273" width="400" /><br /><br />How viable is it, within the SF technology, to convert an entire asteroid into a fortress?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.kitsune.addr.com/Rifts/Rifts-PW-Vehicles/Asteroid_Fortress-L… /><br /><a href="http://www.kitsune.addr.com/Rifts/Rifts-PW-Vehicles/Asteroid_Fortress-S… /><br />Why stop with mere space stations, when an entire rock is avaliable?<br /><br /><img src="/files/u8696/picture-1.png" alt="Fortress" height="435" width="384" /><br /><br />It has been a staple of many sci-fi stories, but what would it require?<br />Government and corporate intrests no doubt could afford it... but such locations are classic pirate hangouts, and places that pacifistic space pilgrims run off to, so they can start retro-culture colonies, so could it be that easy?<br /><br /><img src="/files/u8696/spacecraft_star_command.jpg" alt="Pirate base" height="225" width="300" /><br />How would it be done, what would it cost, how well could it be kept secret?<br /><br />Much realated to:<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.starfrontiers.us/node/5267"><font size="1" color="#800080">Asteroids, Associations, Clusters, Trojans, & SSBs</font></a>
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