Giving spaceships character

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Originally Posted by Turhan's Bey Company

Do you have the old Pyramid archives? There's an article on that topic, giving vehicles and other equipment individual "character" through quirks like systems needing time to warm up before reaching full power, making funny noises under specific circumstances, and so on.

In Jan-16, 2004's Pyramid, Erik Funk's article "The Universal Breakdown Manual for GURPS" references 2 articles:

"Appendix Z: Starship Troubles" by David Morgan-Mar -- For starship quirks (25th April 2002) [0425.3.html]
"Appendix Z: What's Wrong With It?" by Matt Riggsby -- For component quirks (29th August 2002) [0829.3.html]

They're both in the 2002 archive zip, filenames listed on the end of the above lines!