Space Ships

At this time there are no official rules for creating space ships. From the boards this is a write up inspired from the Serenity RPG by caspiansk.

Ships are built like characters.

Awareness is the ship's sensors

Coordination is how well the ship handles

Ingenuity is the ship's computer system/autopilot

Presense is the ship's communications capabilities

Resolve is how durable the ship is

Strength is how much speed and/or lift the ship has.

Ships do not necessarily have the skills a character does - if it does it represents databases in the ships computer that can help the crew do a task.

Ships can have good and bad traits.

Awareness is the ship's sensors and communications arrays. Sensors 0 is flying blind.

• 1. Rudimentary; only the barest nav-sat and communications equipment

  2. Basic; typical needs for a privately owned civilian vessel, including long range emergency beacons for distress situations

  3. Average; standard commercial vessel

  4. Good; standard military vessel

  5. Excellent; military listening post

  6. Amazing; expensive sensor or communications gear designed to send/receive broadwave messages, scan all spectrums, and analyze all Frequencies

Coordination is how well the ship handles

• 1. Slow, unresponsive maneuverability

  2. Ungainly, slow maneuvering

  3. Average Maneuverability

  4. Good Maneuverability

  5. Exceptional Maneuverability

  6. Near perfect maneuverability

Ingenuity is the ship's computer system/autopilot

• 1. Bare-bones; can make only basic corrections, stop in emergencies, or sound an alarm

  2. Substandard; can handle mundane flight details, and issue automated responses to communication attempts

  3. Average; can auto-calculate a flight plan with correct input, account for unusual (but not unheard of) anomalies during flight

  4. Good; fast response and crash avoidance, auto-landing routine on predictable terrain

  5. Excellent; auto-checks sensor information to verify its accuracy, extensive emergency response programming

  6. Amazing; sophisticated systems can handle most flight details without pilot assistance

Presense is the ship's beauty, and how well she's put together. It can also reflect the ship's reputation. A ship may in fact have three or more presence scores (repair needs, exterior beauty, interior beauty, reputation). Can be 0 or go above 6.

• 1. Barely holding together; a piece of floating garbage; only the suicidal fly in that

  2. In need of regular service; obviously seen better days; poor reputation

  3. Performs well with standard maintenance; average appearance; neutral reputation

  4. Newer model or design requires low maintenance; nice looking; decent reputation.

  5. New model or design has redundant systems built in; beautiful; good reputation

  6. Fresh-off-the-line model or design has auto-repair systems built in; the jewel of the fleet; Excellent Reputation

Resolve is a mix of both how hardy the ship is as well as the redundancies built in.

• 1. Rudimentary; auxiliary life support and little else

  2. Basic; automatically seals bulkheads at critical sections, backups available for the most critical systems

  3. Average; often able to maintain optimal function after modest damage

  4. Good; most ship systems have an auxiliary backup

  5. Excellent; damage containment protocols and redundant backup systems may allow ship functions to continue after significant damage

  6. Amazing; modular, redundant system designs and integrated emergency procedures allow ship to often function even after extensive damage

Strength is how much speed and/or lift the ship has as well as her resistance to damage. It also factors as part of the size of the ship and tonnage, but not always.

• 1. 10-100 tons

  2. 100-1,000 tons

  3. 1,000-10,000 tons

  4. 10,000-100,000 tons

  5. 100,000-1 million tons

  6. 1 million-10 million tons

Note Bene: most of these stats are copied from other attributes from Serenity Role Playing game