Agreed, firefly to millenium falcon... Andromeda to Farscape? Dark Star to Red Dwarf?
So what other examples? I know there is a few from literature, so a crew of .. how many are PCs, vs NPCs and like? Mike On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've been thinking about the stereotypes for small space > freighters, the right size for party of adventurers. The > TL of various fictional settings can be hard to compare, > but look and feel may be easier to categorize. A picture > says more than a thousand words, so I think of movies > and TV: > > * Very early look-and-feel. Reaction drives with limited > delta-V, no gravity, but with FTL. Space 1999, perhaps, > but they dodge the question of FTL and zero-G. The old > 3E Space had experimental stardrives at TL9, but > Vehicles only has them at TL10. > > * Early look-and-feel. Serenity, the Millenium Falcon in > Star Wars, Alien. Engineers will get their hands dirty > with a wrench in their hands, even if it is called a > hydrospanner. TL10+ in 3E, since you need TL10 for > mature stardrives. > > * Middle (?) look-and-feel. Stargate, Star Trek. You can > tell the computer to run a Level 5 Diagnostic, and if > engineers must do manual work, they'll juggle glowing > crystals. TL12+ in 3E, with contragrav for elegant, > effortless flight. > > * What happens at the higher TLs? From literature, Iain > Banks' Superlifters, but they're not party-sized. Or > a ship in two units, with a forcefield cargo hold > between them. > > What do you think? What am I missing? > > Regards, > Onno > _______________________________________________ > GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l > -- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Poetry-L/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adulthumor-L/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Abrigon-World/ _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
