GURPS Spaceships Design Spreadsheet

[ericbsmith]

Originally Posted by DaltonS

The "FUEL USED" for a NEMA reactor is listed as "Hydrogen/Helium Isotopes"

According to the rules in Spaceships 7 NEMA are a variant magically enhanced Fission reactor. That means it's fuel use should probably be the same as other Fission reactors - Fissionables - it looks like I accidentally gave them the same fuel as Fusion plants.

Necronium is a setting specific magical/fissionable fuel and is not mentioned in any of the spaceships books.

Originally Posted by DaltonS

Also, NEMA reactors seem to have "Compact" and "Unshielded" options. What magical effects do these options mean (ie. mana levels in the hull section of an "unshielded" reactor, "hellgate" events for damaged "volatile" ones)?

Unshielded and Compact are standard power plant options. Exact effects are up to the GM for his setting; Unshielded NEMA would bathe those nearby in mana-enhanced radiation, so could cause magical mutations or magical radiation sickness. Compact simply makes the power plants Volatile - more likely to explode - but the exact effects of a mana engine exploding are up to the GM.