Gear Sizes

[irmejnah]

As many gear sizes are not given, it is a bit of a problem in planning. Size does not only matter for transport, but also for Nanofabbing, though there some items might have another size for Nanofabbing than the item in use has. Some might also have a different one for transport if not deployed.

• Emergency Bubble is large but portable, and if not deployed a package. So does it really deploy much larger than Large, or has a very bad packaging ratio (hard to believe as its utility is precisely being empty space to be used by the 4+ people (comfortable, so cramping should allow for more)). I'd suggest it should be Small for transport and printing (a backpack), and deploy Very Large, interpreting the large in the text as an unfortunate choice of words. As the Pressure Tent is technically (though I'd expect being more cramped) providing the same space, otherwise we'd end up with the Pressure Tent (at least logically) also being a big logistics problem, which we probably neither should have nor want to have (well, one could make the case that everything beyond VacSuit should be a logistics effort, in which case my reasoning does not apply). Well, with the furniture and airlock (so the tent probably means it needs to depressurized every time anyone leaves or enters), I guess it should be Large in transport, but then still printable in parts?

I think Size should be specified as tripplets for critical items for which we care about logistics at all (which I think unless we do want high abstraction close to Bag of Holding would be usually -- if unclear [for example a hand gun probably does not need any thought to get to Very Small for all, while a Sniper Rifle might be Small in Nanofabbing and optionally transport, but Medium when usable/assembled, and the Emergency Bubble I consider to not be obvious at all, so should be defined when chosen])

• for Nanofabbing
• for transport
• in use/deployed

[irmejnah]

If we don't do anything like that I think there needs to be a common understanding that Nanofabbing in pieces is possible for most items, just meaning the result might need some skilled assembly and take some time. For the above, otherwise Emergency Bubble would not be possible to make even with a Large Fabber, which seems to border on ridiculous to me.