(IW) Details of Lucifer-5

[warellis]

Are astronium and petrinium what we call uranium and plutonium in OTL/Homeline's world line?

[Astromancer]

Originally Posted by Drifter

With all those reality shards and mana here, that might have the PCs seek advice from holy men in Central Asia. If they happen to meet a German priest with dark hair and blue eyes, going by the name Father Hiedler*, who has great interest and extensive knowledge in ancient religions and artifacts, they might hire him as a translator and occult expert. Out in the wilds of Central Asia, participating in strange ceremonies and speaking only to Tibetan mystics, our good priest might have a shaggy mustache and beard, and might slur his name a bit. Imagine their surprise when they take him to a Singapore spaceport, get him cleaned up for a trip to Mars, and out he comes with his mustache shaved into a stylish new look, popularized by Charlie Chaplin.

*Hitler's father changed his name from Schiklegruber, his mothers name that of his father, Hiedler, but it was misrecorded as Hitler. So Adolf himself may have used Hitler, Hiedler or even Huttler when young, and when older and full of mystical drugs.

Fiendish! Full marks! Chaplin always said he wore the look first.

[Astromancer]

By the by, the Pyramid article on the Dungeons of Mars would be useful. After all, stealing ancient secrets from lost tombs is the kind of pulp adventure you'd want on Lucifer-5.

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by warellis

Are astronium and petrinium what we call uranium and plutonium in OTL/Homeline's world line?

Absolutely not. They are elements unknown to our periodic table with superscience properties found in meteor craters.

Uranium was known to mundane science well before 1908. Even its' radioactive properties were known by 1895 or so.

[Fred Brackin]

Sorry to be so late getting back to this but life happens.

This is my first attempt at a basic transport rocketship for Lucifer-5. It's SM-8 and that's mostly because of trying to account for armor and crew cabins.

It's made out of steel, steel and more steel and is dDR9. That's enough to stop the effects of colliding with a grain of dust (with "grain" meaning 1/7000th of a lb) at an average turnover velocity on the Mars run. The ship also probably tries to avoid most dust by flying above or below the plane of the
Ecliptic.

Because there is almost no automation possible at this TL I'm setting minimum normal crew at 6. That's one watchstander for the bridge and the engine room with 3 shifts.

4 cabins are allotted for the crew at double occupancy with 1 fir a single bed Infirrnary and another for a small Astronomy lab that will be largely concerned with the difficult subject of navigation at this TL.

The extra beds can go for a medic and a cargo master or purser or steward or some such person.

There are 6 cabins allotted for passengers. Most trips will be under a week with 2 days or less being common.

The drive is Hot Reactionless because the IW book describes there things as "torch ships" which means to me both "accelerates at a constant 1G or higher" and "fire comes out the back end". If somebody really doesn't like reactionless drives the only option would be Total Conversion. Constant 1G takes more than 500 miles per second of Delta-V per day.

TL6^ Rocket Ship
Front
1.Steel armor
2.Steel armor
3.Steel armor
4. Control Room
5. Habitat 6 rooms
6. Habitat 6 rooms
(Core) Infirmary
Center
1.Steel armor
2.Steel armor
4.Steel armor
5. Cargo 50 tons
6. Cargo 50 tons
(Core) Engine Room
Rear
1.Steel armor
2.Steel armor
3.Steel armor
4. TL^ Exotic Power plant, 3PPs
5. TL10 Hot Reactionless thruster, 1G
6. TL10 Hot Reactionless thruster, 1G

ST/HP:70 dDR 9 2Gs max 12 canons 100 tons cargo.