> > Aerospace Microfighter v1.0 (TL9) > > Copyright 2007 by Onno Meyer > > > Hmm. The kind of thing a rebellion might use? Or perhaps a desperate > last minute defense. Or maybe a criminal underground.
I was thinking of bounty hunters. For an Anime, it doesn't have to make sense ... > You mentioned Jupiter and atmospheric performance. It would be > interesting to know its maximum pressure support and how far down into > Jupiter or Saturn it could go. Diving into a gas giant could be a good > way to lose pursuit from military spacecraft that aren't designed for > atmosphere. According to Vehicles, the crush depth depends on the DR and the hull shape and size. A proper military craft is almost certainly tougher ... > I also wonder about how intense the magnetic and radiation > environment is a gas giant like Jupiter. I've read things that make me > think it's pretty severe and at a guess I don't think this design could > handle it. Proper radiation shielding for the entire craft would have forced me to sacrifice stealth (to stay within my mass budget, that is). So the poor guy needs a decent spacesuit, even within the craft. > And for some reason that makes me think of force fields. Does Vehicles > have anything to handle shaped force fields? Force field shaping could > create atmospheric capable shapes out of a brick. I'm visualizing > flying into a gas giant and making 100g turns since there'd be no danger > of the "wings" falling off. > Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Coming soon to a mailing list near you (unless something comes up at work and I'm forced to go to my stockpiled reserve designs). Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
