Spaceships hull armor…solid?

[FrackingBiscuit]

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

So covering your outer hull with half an inch of aluminum is only "not very much at all" on very large Spaceships. On small sapceships it's an entire armor module all by itself.

Okay? Most designs in the Spaceships books themselves are at least 15% armor. A SM+6 space shuttle with the standard 15% armor already has most of the mass needed to protect against SM+10 ship railguns. That's canonical generic space shuttles with TL7 armor being able to survive cruiser-sized TL9 guns. Move it up one SM or one TL and it's more than enough mass to survive the same gun. So yeah, for what it's getting I'd say that's not very much at all.

If you think one armor system per section is excessive for a ship built to survive combat against space cruisers, I don't know what to tell you. At that point it sounds like you're just being contrarian.