havercake lad
Banded Mongoose
When the drive of one of these vehicles is completely shot away does it plummet or hover ?
Grav vehicle drives
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alex_greene
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Plummet.
Around TL 8, the vehicle's grav propulsion would probably be a supplement to a more conventional drive such as prop rotors or VTOL. If the grav cut out, the vehicle's main drive system would probably still carry on, though the vehicle would have the aerodynamic performance of a breeze block.
TL 9, the first vehicles self-powered solely by grav would come into being, but like most aerial equipment there'd likely be plenty of safety equipment such as "grav hysteresis" which would have the grav suspension gradually fade slowly, long enough to allow a vehicle at any height below its rated ceiling to glide slowly to stable ground before packing in altogether.
Or you could set things up such that at the TL your grav vehicles operate, they have no safety systems, no hysteresis and the vehicles just plummet like the big metal ingots they are.
Hope your guys have got chutes packed ...
Around TL 8, the vehicle's grav propulsion would probably be a supplement to a more conventional drive such as prop rotors or VTOL. If the grav cut out, the vehicle's main drive system would probably still carry on, though the vehicle would have the aerodynamic performance of a breeze block.
TL 9, the first vehicles self-powered solely by grav would come into being, but like most aerial equipment there'd likely be plenty of safety equipment such as "grav hysteresis" which would have the grav suspension gradually fade slowly, long enough to allow a vehicle at any height below its rated ceiling to glide slowly to stable ground before packing in altogether.
Or you could set things up such that at the TL your grav vehicles operate, they have no safety systems, no hysteresis and the vehicles just plummet like the big metal ingots they are.
Hope your guys have got chutes packed ...
Rikki Tikki Traveller
Cosmic Mongoose
I agree, at TL-8, I would assume a backup, non-gravitic system. At TL-9+, I would assume a backup gravitic generator that slowly sinks you to the ground. But it would be hard to gameplay that possibility.
Much more fun to have the players dropping out of the sky like rocks! No backups!
Much more fun to have the players dropping out of the sky like rocks! No backups!
