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Old 06-02-2020, 10:37 AM   #2
malloyd
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Default Re: Piloting rolls in atmosphere for GURPS TRAVELLER

That doesn't look unreasonable, but will probably never matter. Almost nobody in the TU would even consider aerobraking - thrusters are so good that anything considered space-worthy should be able to kill its entire orbital velocity in less time than it would take to fall from a sustainable orbit to a part of the atmosphere thick enough to matter, even without turning on the contragravity.

Sure various official design sequences have included rules for more primitive drives, but realistically if there is enough contact for the PCs to get here, it's orders of magnitude cheaper to smuggle in an air-raft than to reach orbit by trying to build something less capable.
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