Spaceship DR and damage

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by pawsplay

I'm just picturing a guy in a DR 150 battlesuit stepping in front of a spaceworthy vessel and saying, "Don't worry, I'll save you!" In any case, it's clearly not a military vessel. What is the DR of something intended for combat? The Basic Rules offer no guidance on that, and Ultra-Tech gives up after tanks. With a DR 700 tank on one hand, and a DR 100 star freighter on the other, I was at a loss for extrapolating what a fighter or small cruiser looks like.

Well, a battlesuit has a (relatively speaking) small mass of high-thickness (and probably high-density) armor put around a really small (SM0) thingy. A spaceship has to cover its whole surface with the same thickness and it will cost more. A battlesuit is basically a very very light tank.