Is spaceship armor useless?

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Do you think an unofficial project aiming to either radically houserule G:SS, or make an SS-like system from scratch, that would be more general than the canonical G:SS, would be viable? At the very least, to make emulating different genres possible/easier?

I think better than and more general than G:SS RAW are both doable, though some of the problems it has are not trivial to fix.

However, I think for the genres you seem to be primarily thinking about emulating, you might be better off dropping most of Spaceships and just repurposing the design rules. Giving the slightest consideration to realistic space travel and combat is actively inimical to the 'wooshing dogfighters IN SPACE' genre.