[Spaceships] Star Wars
 

One of the funniest campaigns I've ever GM'd was set in the Star Wars universe using GURPS. I'm thinking of continuing the campaign were we left off and one thing that I'm missing is spaceships for the campaign. Though the PC's did have a ship; it didn't really see much action, and I would want to change that. I've toyed around just a little bit with GURPS: Spaceships but havn't really come very far.

So I'm wondering if anyone have toyed around with X-Wings and TIE's using Spaceships, and if so; if anyone would be interested in posting the results ?

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I have only toyed with old republic era fighters.. and even then the ones I built are way off canon, as I have more tried to maintain the "feel" han the official figures.

As by canon the ships are impossibly fast, but in the actual films/games way slower.. As an exanple x-wing fighters are described as having an acceleration of 3,700 G, but the observer accelerations in the films were in few G..

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There are fairly obvious X-wing and Tie fighter counterparts to be found in Spaceships 4. They may or may not be useful, depending on what interpretation you want to go on. Star Wars movie dynamics are possibly inconsistent and at best very weird.

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You've also got to deal with the crazy scaling. The Executor would be something on the order of SM+20 or so.

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And scaling at the low end. Some of the SW fighters are pretty small. Spaceships is a cool system but, with SW, you might want a system that's a little more hand-wavy.
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For Star Wars spaceships, you definitely want to avoid using their "official" accelerations. In fact, I'd go so far as to divide the "official" ones by 100 to get an acceleration to shoot for.

You may want to build them using pseudo-velocity rules, using the MGLT ratings on Wookieepedia (taken from various video games) as a better feel for relative velocities.

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In my Starwars game I use "movie physics" for spacehips. (That is they turn around and such like airplanes instead of having vectors)

I have built 6 early republic era fighters with spaceships, but I have modified them on purpose. The idea being to try to capture the feel of the originals and make them all have some role and such, instead of trying to recreate faithfully.

You can see what I use here: http://hups.kivinen.iki.fi/k2009:fighters

I do not use decade scale so all numbers given in normal scale.

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It feels like the 'canon' numbers were written by someone in a urination height contest with the Trekkies...

...So until someone brings me proof that the X-wings NEED to go that fast because otherwise they couldn't get around Yavin fast enough...I'll use my numbers of a few Gs acceleration.

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There is more proof for the low acceleration actually: http://www.st-v-sw.net/

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Ok thanks. I found that the easiest way of doing it is to simply convert the D20 spaceships and use GURPS weapons, HP's and DR.