[Spaceships] Biological Ships: Food Consumption

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Varyon

That SS8 figure seems... off. A living spaceship probably isn't going to need to burn as much energy staying warm as a human (it's cold in space, but you don't lose heat all that readily) and isn't going to be burning calories moving around (its drives do that for it), yet a human-sized (SM 0, ST 20) bioship is going to consume 20x as much food as a human (or 80 lb/day). As the ship weighs 200 lb, that means it's eating 40% of its body mass every day.



SS7 has two options, one that's 1% MaxHP per minute and $200k/ton and one that's 1% MaxHP per day and matches your price. Extrapolating, that's around $22k/ton for your quoted rate. One can argue that a bioship should get this for free (although simply stating every bioship has it and charging full price is still appropriate, depending on setting).

[quote=SS8:8]
Biomechanical Self-Repair: The ship is capable of self-repair.
If the spacecraft is reduced to -5 times its HP, it can no longer
fix itself – there isn’t enough structure left. Otherwise, regener-
ation rate is 10% of the spacecraft’s dHP every day. This option
costs $0.02M per ton of mass, e.g., for an SM +7 (300 ton)
spacecraft it costs $6M.