Something larger than a shuttle (star trek or ), but able to act on its own from planet to planet/system to system. Something that is not connected to a carrier or like vehicle. Can a prowler from Farscape star burst on its own? No.. What about a command carrier?
Leviathans from Farscape, star burst as a way to escape. But it became a reason for some to capture them, and now they are semi-domesticated.. Some are "feral" or "wild" still, but what about ... Talon from farscape was a breed, mixture of Leviathan and Gun Ship biomechanoid, origin of them is ??? Created by genetic engineering or .. Firefly class? Scout class from Traveller Klingon ... the one smaller than a bird of prey? Romulans also used them.. Talon could I think, go into a planetary atmosphere and land on the surface or not? What other like ships could land on a planets surface but still warp/jump/star burst or would they need to if they was larger and had shuttles or like? Or transportor or like deus-ex-machina? Most ships seem to have a captain or like person. A engineer or like, and others.. Serenity had: Captain 1st Mate Engineer the rest are extra. or classes as cargo or extras? Farscape had: Moya Pilot and all else was extra, or you class the DRDs as the mechanic/engineer. Star ships Trooper had? Space Vikings had, captain and engineer and ... Han Solo/Chewie. Mike Alaska On 5/27/12, 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
