[Blog] n-Body Politics

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Originally Posted by Space Combat Iteration 1: Low Earth Orbit

Having decided on the general technology available in-setting, we can now look at how space combat is going to look like.

For this, let’s take the spacecraft from GURPS Spaceships 8: Transhuman Spacecraft. Specifically, let’s first take the Predator AKV from page 12. Exchanging the drive to a water fusion torch increases acceleration to 4.5G, and delta v to 45km/s, for a burn time of slightly over eleven minutes. This also increases cost to about $17M. I’m using armour-as-dice, so they have 15d/6d/9d armour.

The next spacecraft is one of the smaller SDVs: The EU’s Hermann Oberth SDV (page 30). Replacing the drives as above gives it an acceleration of 3G and a delta v of 60km/s. Armour is 24d/6d/6d. Normally, that’d include four Predator AKVs.

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A first - if fairly small - look at space combat as written in an example scenario.