Spaceships: Escape to the asteroids

munin · 02-18-2012, 01:02 AM

If you're willing to consider other options, a single Magsail will get you to the asteroid belt slightly faster than an Advanced Fusion Pulse Drive with only one Fuel Tank and will allow you to swap the Fuel Tank system out for something else. And the Magsail won't run out of fuel so you can keep using it after the journey is over.

The fact that this ship has 20 active crew when it really only needs four says to me that it is using the Lacks Automation design feature (SS7, p. 20), in which case the ship doesn't require an Engine Room and gets +1 HT.

02-18-2012, 01:02 AM	#18
munin Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Vermont, USA	Re: Spaceships: Escape to the asteroids If you're willing to consider other options, a single Magsail will get you to the asteroid belt slightly faster than an Advanced Fusion Pulse Drive with only one Fuel Tank and will allow you to swap the Fuel Tank system out for something else. And the Magsail won't run out of fuel so you can keep using it after the journey is over. The fact that this ship has 20 active crew when it really only needs four says to me that it is using the Lacks Automation design feature (SS7, p. 20), in which case the ship doesn't require an Engine Room and gets +1 HT.