Ship Design Philosophy

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Spacecraft: Armaments and Laser Gun, Man Portable

1. Currently, highest damage potential is eight dirtside dice.

2. That's eighty percent of a spacecraft beam laser, translated as ten dirtside dice.

3. Either way, these weapons draw no Power from the spacecraft since it is assumed their energy requirements are tiny in comparison to other systems, and they consume neither hardpoints nor firmpoints.

4. So, free energy.

5. Medium range appears to default, for a large receiver, to five hundred metres.

6. Improved beam focus would technically, at plus three to damage, boost potential damage to ninety percent of a spacecraft beam laser.

7. Minus one to penetration.

8. Has the zero gravity benefit, which may, or may not, contribute to accuracy.

9. Since it can draw directly from the spacecraft power grid, it probably doesn't need an integral power pack.

 

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Spacecraft: Armaments and Laser Gun, Man Portable

A. Quarter tonne, in terms of mass, are weapon systems a tad larger than heavy (support) weapons, and less than what would be battlefield adjacent.

B. Even the best of light howitzers are a tad under two tonnes.

C. We can't customize a weapon system from those larger categories, to shrink down to that limitation.

D. So. to take full advantage of that quarter tonnes, we have to scale up smaller weapon systems.

E. One issue, of course, is that range is scaled to dirtside, gravitated combat.

F. Especially, for energy weapons.

 

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Starwarships: Logistics Ships, The Unsung Heroes of Sci-Fi

Spacedock dives into the all-important and oft-neglected logistics ships of science fiction.

1. You do have to supply all those star destroyers, and planetary garrisons.

2. Assuming, the setting permits large numbers of space trucks.

3. You have to have something to steal.

4. Convoy!

5. Underway replenishment, or hull barnacles?

6. Armed merchantmen.

7. Weaponized containers.

 

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Communist Star Wars: The Phantom Capitalist

"Use the Persuasion of Marxist Theory, Luke."

 

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Inspiration: Soviet Starship Troopers

1. Killed the most enemies, with the least questions.

2. The assault on Klendathu was a triumph Soviet military planning; thousands of soldiers dropped from metal boxes that offered minimal protection, and maximum patriotic symbolism.

3. The truth was irrelevant; the narrative was everything.

4. The bugs were freed from the burden of self governance.

5. Work is freedom; productivity is piece work.

6. Compassion is a counter revolutionary impulse.

 

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Spacecraft: Gun Ports

1. Well, small cargo hatches.

2. Presumably, battle dressed Marines.

3. Factor/fifteen fusion gun, man portable.

4. Range in vacuumed microgravity, who knows?

5. Certainly would work as anti boarding.

6. Might even work at dogfight range, against any other spacecraft.

7. You could presume that the external gallery would be under inertial compensation.

8. Get more crew out there to shoot at the close by enemy spacecraft with ground weapon systems.

9. How big a hole in the hull, before self sealing doesn't work?

 

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Spacecraft: Gun Ports

A. Or, we just drop a big cargo hatch.

B. March out the Marines with ground weapon systems.

C. Could even be armoured vehicles, rather than just infantry heavy weapons.

D. In theory, the inertial compensation field should definitely cover the cargo hold, and the cargo hatch.

E. Then, volley fire sixty times at the nearby spacecraft.

F. Assuming double dee damage times one, that should discombobulate some spacecraft, especially if calculated as a salvo.