Recent content by mccambjd

If you're wearing a vacc suit, cold expanding gas probably isn't a big problem. Cryogenic liquids filling the compartment might be, but I would hope fuel tanks are self-sealing against the kind of holes made by slug throwers or small energy weapons.

No reason to hold liquid hydrogen under pressure--you can't really pack any more in per ton that way. Even if it were under pressure, a hole in the fuel tank or line would lead to a jet of cyrogenic liquid (which is plenty dangerous), but no explosion. Unless the "explosion" is meant to capture...

In High Guard Update 2022 on p. 134 in the side bar on fuel systems, it says [emphasis mine]: In vacuum, fuel explosions inflict 8D damage with Blast 10, which typically consumes an entire compartment in a starship of under 1,000 tons...If the compartment does not have its oxygen evacuated, the...

The rules as written make sense to me. See the attached drawing for my interpretation. You are jumping from star system 1 to star system 2, relatively close by (on a galactic scale). Say the center of mass of star 1 and its planets is moving relative to star system 2 center of mass at 20 km/s...