Recent content by EccentRick

Ah, I misunderstood the question - I thought you meant between adventures and hooks, when one location could be as good as another, not following one. To analogize to a previous response, it would be easier to find a ship willing to go from Tatooine to Alderaan than one going the other...

The storage of capital ship Supply Units (SU) has been subject to a revision or two, all of which appear to have gaps. The consistent part: Capital Ships consume an amount of SU equal to their tonnage divided by 100 each day (by default). Most ships contain enough supplies for 100 days. One ton...

Depends on how your Referee decides to give choices or illusions of choice. If one adventure has ended and you're not following a hook to the next, then you have 4 ships going to 4 destinations where an adventure will find you (the same or different adventures depending on how far ahead the...

Those are not activities optimally done with "Common area", they're the job-space locations I side-stepped: Training Facilities for the marksmanship and sparring, Hangers or docking spaces for the vehicles, etc.

The narrator notes that this platoon actually HASN'T seen the sky for the 6 weeks they've been onboard, but the per-person space question has seemed off to me. As noted above: So I'm only focusing on person-space. And I only worked through the 'standard' sizes provided (presumably for Humaniti...

Scaffolding would be a better term. Even in a microgravity position when dealing with bulky, massive, and damage-sensitive components in precision locations free-handing a shift in position might not be best practice. When inertia is a pain, it strikes at least 4 times. Yay! Annual always...

They also buried in the campaign's Referee Handbook that Deepnight Revelation needs 1,000 SU per day instead of the typical 750 as "The needs of keeping a ship operational without starport visits and regular dockside maintenance increases the consumption of supplies, offset by advanced recycling...

🎶 Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish 🎶

I thought the distinction was between "interior to the jump field (bubble)" and "exterior to the jump field "bubble". A ship either needs to be 100D away from an object or have the object within the jump field (for starting the jump, if the 'debris' does not stay sufficiently close (attached) to...

I seem to have hit a level of fatigue-impaired thinking to drop an oar in these waters and offer opinions while being a bit heretical and side-stepping the published quotes and explanations I'm getting the impression there are two modalities that are messily intertwined 🪢 and fighting for...

I can't cite it, the book is boxed away, but my recollection of the 1e book was the Darrians could build TL15 ships, but it was more economical to buy them from Imperium manufacturers for reasons of volume and scale efficiencies of the builders. The trade-off being the risk of someone noticing a...

Supposedly the lower TL helps cut costs over the large number in use, the arguable "explanation" of the inherited lack of M-drive. It's been a minute since I looked, but I got the impression everything on it was as low TL as possible. I want to think that a Budget TL9 M1 allowing X-boats to get...

Somewhere I have a copy of an independent? adventure I picked up at DriveThruRPG centering around a mis-jump on a ship that cut that switchover a hair to fine.

To me, using 2 days as a 'standard' for the Imperial Navy's J4 ships has the right 'feel' of balancing factors. The 1/n curve for the relationship of space needed for the processors to the amount of time needed to process makes 2 days feel like good balance point of cost-effectiveness, speeding...

1:1 seems impossible. The description did say this dromedary was sized for destroyers, not capital ships. Skimming HG2022, we seem to have a dromedary that is 10 (Fleet Escort - 5,000 tons) or 16 (Destoryer, 3,000 tons) to 50 (Destroyer Escort - 1,000) times larger than the ship(s) it is...