[Psionics] [Space] Psi Trek - Worldbuilding

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by Prince Charon

EDIT: ericthered, I've been reading your blog, and am working on a question for this thread to vote on, related to the 'Eggshells with Hammers' issue for GURPS Spaceships. BTW, when you checked the scaling of armour, did you also check the scaling of force fields?

Thank for the interest.

If you accept armor DR scaling linearly with its thickness*, The armor in spaceships scales wonderfully, and force screens scale just like armor systems. The DR value is consistently twice the value of the best armor at that TL, and four times if you pay for the heavy screens (which don't actually weigh more).

*something that is very true in gurps for larger values of armor, but that I'm less sure about for human scale armor. It plays well with the damage used for gurps weapons by caliber and by energy output, though the scaling of caliber sizes on spaceships in the book is quite odd.