05-23-2015, 08:13 PM
(05-23-2015, 05:42 PM)Ryuujin Wrote: Larger tribes tend to have access to entire specialised ships. Smaller tribes may be less mobile and instead erect temporary infrastructure planetside, such as greenhouses, or modular fabrication facilities that can be taken away once they're done.
That actually reminds me; how large is a typical Avali tribe, and how large can a nomadic spacefaring tribe feasibly get while still maintaining its nomadic practicality? At some point, a local population just becomes too large to be called a wandering tribe - and loses more of its ability to pack up and move on the fly as it approaches that threshold, if it doesn't split itself into two separate communities by then.
And how large is the Avali sphere of influence on the interstellar scene - in lightyears, what's the furthest that any of them have journeyed from their homeworld by their current time? For how long have they been a spacefaring race, and how fast do their ships move at FTL speeds?
Regarding EVA/HEV hardsuits and the like - how robust are they against more extreme heat and radiation? If they had to, could an Avali go outside on worlds as sun-blasted or pressure-cooked as Mercury and Venus (or even harsher than that) without their protective gear failing them within minutes/hours?