GURPS: Spaceships Inquiry.

[David L Pulver]

Originally Posted by Rowan

Came up with an idea for a Transhuman style solar sail ship. Run by a large collection of families. I mean really large. On the order of a quarter million folks. Wanted to make it a rock body/armour (hollowed out asteroid) that spun for gravity. Uses solar panels for power and travels the system virtually non-stop with a large solar sail or plasma sail.

Ran into a problem. A spaceship cannot be given a space sail if it's SM exceeds it's TL.

So as I understand it, Transhuman space is TL 10. So that means I can only make the ship as big as SM +10 yes?

Some parts of TS are TL11. If you want to fund it an say the sail uses some experimental nanotech or something, go ahead and make it TL11.