fallsfromtrees wrote:Rincewind wrote:I've got another use for the infamous Solly SDs.
A new Intergalactic Sport
Interplanetary Darts!
The rules of the game!
1) Find yourself a thoroughly useless asteroid in the local system's asteroid belt & create a series of rings & a bull's-eye on the surface.
2) Each competitor has three Solly SDs adapted to remote control stationed about a thousand or so kilometres from the asteroid.
3) Play starts by each competitor in turn accelerating one of their SDs from a standing start using the Impellor Drive for a few seconds. The drive then automatically shuts down & they have to steer it using the reaction thrusters.
4) Closest one to the bull's-eye wins!
It's bound to be a smash hit.
What a waste of perfectly good asteroids
I did say use thoroughly useless asteroids.