GURPS Space campaign setting

[combatmedic]

Originally typed by MrId:
As I understand it, in this setting, the rule seems to be "artificial gravity and contragrav, but no grav drives." I'm not sure how that works, but since it's rubber science, it can be explained any number of ways. I think the goal is to avoid the dirt-cheap planet-cracking problem of reationless thrusters while still having artificial gravity. I don't know what the actual rationalization for this will be. But as for why no grav drives, well, 'cause the rules (or setting parameters) say so.

Unless I'm completely off base (likely), and in which case, grav drives seem like a logical consequence of general gravitic technology.

I had envisioned gravitics as a relatively young technology. It hasn't yet been sucessfully micronized, for example. Perhaps the grav drive is still on the drawing board? Maybe the Precursors used them?


I'm trying to work backwards from story assumptions, then determine what technology [real or imagined] would fit best. Rubber physics is okay in limited doses. The setting is space opera, not hard sci fi.


I am aiming for an ''Age of Sail'' feel, similiar to that achieved in Traveller. I worry that reactionless drives would cause problems with that, but maybe they wouldn't. I'll need to give it more thought...

Most of my players won't care about the technical aspects of the setting as much as I do. That's fine. I just like an internally consistent milleu.