Ship's Locker: Out of the Closet

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Engine: Simplest Automobile and Aircraft?

We have a maximum of twenty spaces.

Customization tends to be increasing or decreasing costs and spaces, for a specific outcome; since spaces are in lots of ten percent, if customization is to be optimized, the chassis would be in two basic sizes, ten and twenty spaces.

Decreasing speed would grant an extra one or two spaces, at dropping it to fifty to a hundred klix per hour, which should be sufficient for an urban environment, while shaving off ten percent of the default cost per space.

Probably not worth it for a twenty space vehicle, though for a ten spacer, it might, if squeezed for volume.

Increasing the speed to two to three hundred klix per hour is likely overkill; Formula One would be in the mid three hundreds. It would double the default cost, and require ten percent of spaces.

Cruising speed at fifty to a hundred klix per hour, increases range by fifty percent.

 

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Engine: Simplest Automobile and Aircraft?

For every increase of twenty five percent of the default cost, you can attribute to fuel efficiency an increase of range of fifty percent.

Or, save ten percent of the default cost by reducing range by twenty five percent, which probably isn't worth it.

Sacrifice ten percent of the default spaces, and you can increase the range by twenty five percent, basically by having a larger gas tank.

Likewise, recovering ten percent of spaces will decrease range by twenty five percent, essentially shrinking the fuel tank.

Manipulation of cruising speed, fuel storage, and better equipment can adjust the range considerably, though, at default, it seems a pretty good performance overall.

 

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Engine: Earliest Useful Advanced Light Vehicle Chassis

It's technological level ten.

It's speed is high, and it's range is five hundred klix; not that much of an improvement from technological level seven, medium and range four hundred klix.

Any vehicle can be fitted with an auxiliary grav drive, allowing it to fly for short distances.

While flying, the vehicle will have its Agility reduced by -1, its Range halved, and Speed reduced by one band.

Auxiliary Grav Drives add +100% to a vehicle’s Cost per Space and consume 25% of the vehicle’s total Spaces (rounding up).

Eight spaces, twelve kilostarbux, four shipping tonnes.

Two hundred fifty klix range, slow (fifty to a hundred klix) speed.

 

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Engine: Earliest Useful Advanced Light Vehicle Chassis

Keeping the above in mind.

It's still technological level ten, with a retro technological level five aesthetic.

It's speed is high, and it's range is five hundred klix.

Fitted for, and with, an auxiliary grav drive.

Four spaces, six kilostarbux, two shipping tonnes, agility minus one

Two hundred fifty klix range, slow (fifty to a hundred klix) speed.

Three spaces can be converted to driver/pilot, and two passengers and or half a tonne cargo.