[Spaceships] Biological Ships: Food Consumption

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Originally Posted by vierasmarius

The rules in that book are particular to the TS setting. I don't think SS7 assumes that biological ships even need to eat at all. That said, if you do want consumption to be a factor, the SS8 rule should work fine. Interestingly, it uses a much slower scaling than one would assume based on the mass of the ships.

Bioships, as in living organisms, would need to consume organic matter to grow or repair itself, and personally I can see a nuclear pile making it's internal reactionless drives work, but it wouldn't provide energy to it's basic functions