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Originally Posted by Seneschal
I've recently decided that I wanted to make atmospheres and planetary gravity wells a bit more significant in my sci-fi campaign, and to stick with (relatively) non-superscience means of reaching orbit, mostly so that the players wouldn't use their ship (and its 30-ton laser cannon intended for space combat) as they would an attack chopper. It would still be possible for them to land, but to get back up
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The way I solved this was a transportable beanstalk with an attached helicopter at the end. The ship simply goes into orbit, unwinds enough of the beanstalk to dip into the atmosphere, and then the helicopter flies away. I made a spaceships module for this in some ancient thread.