Travellers Needed! High Guard Updates

[Terry Mixon]

You could reach a compromise, in that it requires one full hull point to be counted as a spacecraft.

So, 2.5 tons for a standard hull. I'm not sure why the compromise is needed, though.

What purpose does a 2.5-ton minimum serve that is any different than a 5-ton minimum? Ot a 1-ton minimum? Or a fractional ton minimum? Any hit is going to FUBAR all of them. I say dump the artificial minimum and just let small hulls be super fragile, like they are.

 

[Condottiere]

Anything below one hull point would need to be a vehicle chassis, adapted for outer space.

 

[Terry Mixon]

Anything below one hull point would need to be a vehicle chassis, adapted for outer space.

While I see your intent, I think I'll disagree on general principles. One could as easily say that all vessels, of whatever size, have a minimum of 1 hull point. In fact, I think that is a good idea.

I present a spacecraft use built with the High Guard rules except for the size minimum.

 

[Terry Mixon]

This lifepod does away with the also nonsensical (in my opinion) 1 power point minimum rule to make an emergency life pod that is just under 1 ton because of the rounding up of docking bay size to the next ton. Another rule that needs to be deep sixed.

 

[Terry Mixon]

I can build a vehicular weather satellite and escape pod. It doesn't change my opinion, though. They should be valid spacecraft builds.

Even so, I’ll build vehicle versions until the rules do change.

 

[Condottiere]

I used to build rocket sleds with actual high burn thrusters, at, I think, two tonnes.

But, when you get lemons, you squeeze them into other drinks.

I think, structural integrity would be the issue, since, arguably, a twenty kilogramme dogfight missile could be considered a spacecraft.