Spaceships series: Electrical Batteries module?

[David L Pulver]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

I can live with that. TL8 anything is going to be painfully inefficient. Mass drivers are by their nature horrible at everything unless you have free mass and really long term power.

I don't expect TPTB to ever clearly state it, but I still like having a ballpark figure for adding new house rule tech.
Unless anyone disagrees, I'm going to steal the 50 kW/ton guideline.

SPACESHIPS is a system with numerous simplifications and short cuts designed to produce even whole numbers for things like power points and for weapons, to make the turn sequencing work. Note, for example, that many systems do not improve at higher TLs, and how structures are ignored.

In particular the power point numbers for fuel cells etc. and electric drive drive thrusts are abstracted to make them "worth using" in manned designs and avoid having to deal with 1/1000G thrusts and the like. I think they are deliberately about 10x as effective as they should be.