Oops, I misunderstood that.
The assumption is that reactionless thrusters are available. A large,
well-designed starship would have multiple thrusters and multiple power
plants, probably fusion reactors at TL10, fusion or antimatter at TL11.
The power system would be designed that any reactor can power any
thruster, and there is enough power/thrust for a safe landing on a
reasonably earthlike world if one or two of each fail. There might be a
reserve to recharge hyperdrive or jumpdrive power cells and any one
reactor should be able to power the share of thrusters AND all life
support.
We are talking about roughly 100 kW per person, depending on the number
of spare seats in the capsules. That's not enough power to make a
serious backup.
On the other hand, recharging the power cells for jump/hyperspace could
take hours or days, especially if the sublight thrusters are running at
the same time. If using the pods' power saves an hour, it would be silly
not to do that.
And then there are smallish, not so well designed starships. They might
well have a single reactor, and the pods could be required to run life
support and the workshops is the ship is repairable.
Am 18.04.2016 um 18:35 schrieb Travis Watkins:
Forgive me if I was not clear, but what would the impact be on the power
systems of the ship holding the escape pods?
Would escape pod power supplies pretty much always be too trivial to make
the additional wiring cost-effective, or is using power supplies of docked
escape pods as a backup/supplement a viable cost-saving approach?
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