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Orbiting Penal Colony
A prison placed in orbit (better than Alcatraz). (Read the full article)
| "To expensive, just shoot em'
LOL" (Bill Sherman 10/29/2004 12:00:05 PM ) |
| "The Traveller science fiction role playing game used this. Adventure 1 The Kinunir (1979) had an orbiting Kinunir class cruiser, the Gaesh, which had been converted into an "orbital prison hulk". This is an old idea (see the Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_ship for more)." ( 12/24/2008 5:42:49 AM ) |
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