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[10ebbor10]

Spoiler: Background and other information (click to show/hide)

This will merely be the story of the players and their craft. I have some plot hooks planned for the background, but most of the game will be based on the information provided in the background. I know this is a lot of freedom, and that it might look like laziness on my part, but I'm certain some people will appreciate it.

On another note, the complexity of the craft designing system of the previous game was problematic, so I hope I have simplified that somewhat.

Spoiler: Character sheet (click to show/hide)

Name:
Home planet:
Race and short history:
Biography:
Ship:
Equipment and skills:
Note: Merely a guideline. Try to include plothooks, and be reasonable.

Spoiler: Designing a craft (click to show/hide)

Important Statistics:

Each spaceship is made up from several modules, which differ in size and capabilities. (Bigger is often better). These systems determine the ships stats in combat, and can be damaged by various attacks. They're upgradeable, and can be changed quite easily. All systems require power to run, which is provided by the ship's onboard generators.  Various systems also have various modifiers which can be useful in combat.
Each module takes up a certain amount of space, which could otherwise be used to store cargo. In general, 1 size unit equals 1m³

Craft Size:

Various crafts have various sizes. These can range from small fighters to kilometer long ships. In general, size also determines how much decks a ship has, which is useful in battle and during boarding operations, as the inner deck is always better defended than the outer deck. However, several subsystems need to be placed on the outer deck, and the less stuff there's on the outer deck, the less protection it offers.
1-10:            Extra small (probes)
11-100:        Fighter
100-500:      Small Craft  (2 decks)
501-1000:    Corvette      (2 decks)
1001-2000:  Destroyer    (3 decks)
The larger the size of the craft, the easier it is to hit and damage, and the larger it's support systems will need to be.

Stats of a spacecraft:
Structural Health: Base structural health equal to the size of the ship. When this depletes, your ship crumbles
Armor: If applicable, armor that absorbs damage that your ship sustains. As it depletes more and more damage will pierce.
Maneuverability: How maneuverable a ship is, and how easily it can dodge an enemy
.... (Many more, but module specific)

Stats of a module
Power use per size unit: (A simple measure of how much power a system uses per size unit)
Effect per size unit:       (How effective the system is)

Stats of a Weapon
Base hit rate:
Base damage:
Ammuntion:
Special effects:

Spoiler: Different types of modules (click to show/hide)

Mandatory:
    - Engine             (Except for stationary objects)
    - Reactor
    - Bridge
    - Life support      (Except for probes)
Additional:
    - Weaponry        (These modules hoist all kinds of weaponry)
    - Sensors           (Contains sensors and detection mechanisms, but also stealth systems)
    - Shields            (Also includes other systems to prevent your ship from being shot to itty bits. Actual shields are quite rare.)
    - Jump drive      (You can stay in the same solar system if you want, but otherwise you're going to need this. Or hitch a ride.)
    - Storage          (While any unused space can serve as cargo space, sometimes you want dedicated facilities)
    - Auxiliary         (For the stuff I had no place for)

Spoiler: Engines (click to show/hide)

Basic Engine
Power use: 4
Effect: +2 maneuverability for every 5% taken up by engines

H-Power Engine
Power use: 5
Effect: +2 maneuverability for every 5% taken up by engines, +1 engine power bonus per 5% 

Hybrid Engine
Power use: 5
Effect: +2 maneuverability for every 5% taken up by engines, +4 landing roll bonus per 5% (rolled on a d20) 

Fighter Engine
Power use: 1
Effect: +2 maneuverability for every 5% taken up by engines
Note: Can only be used on fighters

Spoiler: Reactors (click to show/hide)

Solar Panel:
Power use: -0.1
Note: Does not need to be inside the craft. Often attached to probes and other systems. Very vulnerable, but needs no fuel.

Battery:
Power use: -5
Note: Battery reserve last 5. Can overcharge without trouble

Emergency power generator:
Power use: -20
Note: Last 5 turns, needs to be replaced after usage. Often used as an emergency measure on fighters, less so on other cract.

Fission Reactor
Power use: -10
Note: With the advent of cheap fusion energy, this technology is considered outdated. Fuel is rare. However, the fission reactor is remarkably reliable, and easily repaired.

Fusion reactor
Power use: -10
Note: Fuel is plentiful and readily available, but fusion reactors are fairly fragile and hard to maintain.

Spoiler: Bridges (click to show/hide)

All bridges consume 1% of the ship's space

Standard Bridge:
Power use: 10
Note: +1 bonus for all actions committed from the bridge

Combat Bridge:
Power use: 10
Note: +4 bonus for combat actions committed from the bridge

Sensor Bridge
Power use: 10
Note: +4 bonus for scanning actions committed from the bridge

Stronghold:
Power use: 10
Note: +4 bonus for anti-boarding actions committed from the bridge

Navigation:
Power use: 10
Note: +4 bonus for combat actions committed from the bridge

Spoiler: Lifesupport (click to show/hide)

Standard Lifesupport
Power use: 1
Note: Ideally 1 crew per 5 units

Medbay
Power use: 1
Note: 1 sickbed per 5 units

Spoiler: Weaponry (click to show/hide)

Small Weaponry turret
Power use: 2.5
Note: Minimal size: 5

Medium Weaponry turret
Power use: 5
Note: Minimal size: 20

Large weaponry turret
Power use: 10
Note: Minimal size: 50

Spinal Weapon turret
Power use: 10
Note: Minimal size: 20% ship size

Battery Weapon turret
Power use: 20
Note: Minimal size: 100

Spoiler: Sensors (click to show/hide)

Active Sensors:
Power use: 2.5
Note: +2 to scanning rolls per 25 size units, -1 to stealth rolls per 25 size units

Passive Sensors
Power use: 2.5
Note: +1 to scanning rolls per 25 size units

Survey sensors
Power use: 2.5
Note +1 to scanning rolls of planets, objects and stations per 25 size units

ECM
Power use: 2.5
Note: -1 to enemy scan rolls per 25 size units

Spoiler: Armor (click to show/hide)

Standard Armor Plating
Power use: None
Effect: Provides  10%shipsize armor points. 5 DR (Damage resistance)
Note: Armor plating does not take up any space. Only 1 type of armor plating on a ship.

Ablative Armor Plating
Power use: None
Note: Provides  20%shipsize armor points. No damage resistance. Reduces Incoming damage to 20% of armor health.

H-D Armor plating
Power use: None
Note: Provides 5%shipsize armor points. 10 DR.

Reflective Armor Plating
Power use: None
Note: Provides  10%shipsize armor points. 5 DR (Damage resistance). +2 DR against laser Weaponry, -2 to stealth

Stealth Armor Plating
Power use: None
Note: Provides  10%shipsize armor points. 5 DR (Damage resistance). -2 DR against laser Weaponry, +2 to stealth

Anti-Kinetic Armor Plating
Power use: None
Note: Provides  10%shipsize armor points. 5 DR (Damage resistance). +2 DR against kinetic Weaponry, -2 against Missiles

Spoiler: Shields (click to show/hide)

Deflector Shield
Power Use: 20
Note: Adds a shield with strength equal to module size, which will be depleted before actual attacks occur.

Disruptor Shield
Power use : 5
Note: Adds a shield with strength equal to module size, which will be depleted before actual attacks occur. Does not counter Kinetic attacks. Might Disable missile weaponry.

Spoiler: Jump Drive (click to show/hide)

Standard Jump Drive
Power use: 1
Note: Size = 10% ship size
Note: Jumps in 5 combat turns

Slip Drive
Power use: 0.5
Note: Size = 10% ship size
Note: Requires another ship to jump so that it can follow. 5 turn charge

Blink Drive
Power use: 2
Note: Size = 10% ship size
Note: Jumps in 5 combat turns; Can do microjumps in a single system to get around quickly.

Idle Drive
Power use: None
Note: Size = 10% ship size
Note: Jumps in 10 turns; includes it's own reactor

Spoiler: Storage (click to show/hide)

Reinforced Hazardous Materials storage
Power use: 1
Note: Storage capacity remains equal, required for a variety of hazardous materials, but also various types of ammunition

External docking Module
Power use: 5
Note: Can dock a ship up to 10 times larger as this module.

Suggestions are welcome...

Spoiler: Auxiliary (click to show/hide)

So far nothing, any special systems that don't have a place in one of the above categories might be placed here.

Spoiler: Answers to Questions (click to show/hide)

But there's no limit to anything?
      - Well, you'll need to a good excuse to start with anything bigger than a corvette, and balance will be dynamic. On a side note, you can do shared ships, if you want to.
What about weaponry?
     - Describe it, detailed rules will follow soon
This seems unfinished?
     -It is.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I'll be in once I get through something I have IRL pretty soon, read through that information, and make a sheet.

[DarkArtemisFowl]

I need to make a sheet, but I'm away from home right now. Reserving, if possible.

Spoiler: Jake Hester (click to show/hide)

Name: Jake Hester, Male
Home planet: Patiesiba
Race and short history: Human, or at least very close to humanoid. The difference is basically the history of this planet has been started with different parameters compared to the history of Earth. People are changed by the environment. Some of the people on his planet have tails, some have furry ears. He is pretty human as far as alien planets go.
Biography: Emerald eyes, black shiny hair that is drawn behind his ears and somewhat loose. Jaw is kind-of square. He usually has a near-smile on his face that is almost smiling but it's not. He has a scar running diagonally from his chin to his left cheek. He is tall for his race and age, and has an average build, except for his fingers, which are thin. His skin is light.

He was born into a very bad orphanage where he learned how to survive on the streets on his own. He is a very handy mechanic and he is a born leader, though in the wrong ways. He had heard tales about a pirate captain who commanded the largest space fleet ever, looting abandoned ships and battling against the rich and evil. He had been interested by these tales, so he save up enough money to buy his own ship. He believes that he was born for this, that he was born to become a master of the final frontier. He's good with a revolver and has a confidence like no one else has, which may get him into trouble in the future.
Ship:
Equipment and skills:

I have some questions:
-Is my backstory good enough, or do you want me to write more?
-Could you give me some examples (maybe sci-fi or something) of the relative sizes of these ships? Like, the X-wing from Star Wars, or the capital ships, or something.
-So are you going to add more later? If so, should I wait on the customization of my ship and equipment?

Thank you, and I am very interested in this RTD.

[darkpaladin109]

I'll propably join, but I just want to know how we'll determine the stats of our ships.

[Pancaek]

Name: Unit-758 "shiny"
Home planet: Space station "Aurora"
Race and short history:

Spoiler: background (click to show/hide)

First activated some 20 years before, he was a gift from a brilliant engineer to his equally gifted daughter. A gunmetal grey frame, humanoid shaped with a single camera on his faceplate, small holes underneath for aural communication. It was his directive to help the girl with anything she wished. In return the girl, the girl cared for him, repairing him when damaged and explaining things when they were alien. Soon, the girl tired of his distincion.

"Unit-758 is a bit formal, we've known eachother long enough. I think I should give you a name"
"I do not need a name, I am 758"
"Nonsense, from now one youre....hmm...shiny!"
"My frame is not shiny"
"Oh please, mere trivialities."
"Then,  should the master also get a name?"
"I already have a name, silly. Ardee Glokta. DOn't tell me that somehow got erased."
"No, from now on, you shall be..........shy"
"But I'm not shy"
".....Triviality"

They grew closer, and 758 grew more aware of himself and those around him. He felt as if he....cared....for the girl and her family. And so they were together for 20 blissful years.

"I'm just going to put you in sleep mode, can't have wriggling around while we're upgrading your faceplate, can we." and then it was dark.


[Warning--->standby mode has been activated for......335 hours][emergency boot engaged]

758 sat up and looked around. The lights were dim and only the soft hum of the stations life support systems could be heard. He walked out of the engineering room and into the hallways. Bodies lay everywhere, mostly men. He hurried to the living space of his masters, but no-one was there. He walked to the bridge, saw a light flickering on a screen. He activated the screen, a video was playing on continious loop, broadcasting.

"Our staition *static* -ack by slav- *static* request immediate he- *static* I repeat, slavers! They- *gunshots*" and the video was over. Slavers. They probably came for the women and children, he had read about them in books. This would not do, this would not do at all.

His next days were filled with recovering the bodies, putting them side by side and covering them with blankets. He raided the armory. A shotgun, some shells, a combat knife. He put on some clothes he had found, out there, no telling how people would react to a rogue robot. He wasn't rogue, but they didn't know that. Then he went to the hangar, and there she stood. The slavers didn't come this far, it would seem. Crimson red, sleek design with twin autocannons at the front. An old design, not very noteworthy in any way, but she had served the station defences like a loyal guarddog. It looks as if they hadn't even had the time to try and counterattack. "Let's change that"

Equipment: -scavenged clothing (boots, grey workpants, pink sweater, brown longcoat, white scarf, trcuker cap) -riot shotgun, 2 boxes of shells. -combat knife -Toolbox with tools for repairs, scavenged from hanger
skills: -robot: shiny is a robot, with all the perks and downsides that come with that
-gearhead: literally and figuratively, Shiny is pretty good with all things mechanical, be that figuring out their use or repairing them.
-Custom Programming: Shiny's custom firmware gives him fast processing capabilities, resulting in faster reaction speeds. Handy when flyings ships or shooting guns, not so good when when having nothing to do.
Ship: "die Wespe" (fighter class, 90units big)

Spoiler: ship (click to show/hide)

mandatory:
    - Engine: fighter engine : 20 unit, 20 power
    - Reactor: fusion: 12 units, -120 power
    - Bridge :combat bridge: 1 unit; 10 power
    - Life support : 5 units, 5 power
Additional:
    - Weaponry : 2 small guns: autocannons: 20 units, 50 power
   -armor: standard armour: 9 armor points, 5DR
- Sensors           none
    - Jump drive : standard: 10 units, 10 power
    - Storage: hazardous materials storage, 10 units 10 power
                  -12 units of regular storage left
    - Auxiliary         (For the stuff I had no place for)

So, I should have used 78 units of space and have 15 power left.

-edit- and this should be it

[10ebbor10]

I have some questions:
-Is my backstory good enough, or do you want me to write more?
-Could you give me some examples (maybe sci-fi or something) of the relative sizes of these ships? Like, the X-wing from Star Wars, or the capital ships, or something.
-So are you going to add more later? If so, should I wait on the customization of my ship and equipment?

-It's good enough
-Well, 1 size unit is 1m³ . The X-fighter is 12 meters long, wingspan of 12 meters, and 3 meters tall. However, it's no perfect cube, so thanks to some complicated calculations, I had it's size at somewhere between 10 and 30 units, depending on the size of a legobrick.  Note that with this system, there's no way you're going to fit as much weaponry in a ship of this size.
- I intend to finish the system today. You can wait, or just adjust after the changes.

some questions:
-will the entire game be played inside of our ships, or will we go planetside/stationside as well?
-If I don't put a sensor in, will I be flying blind or will I simply not get the bonus?
-Any problems with my backstory character?

- You can, if you want too.
 - You will not get any bonuses, but all bridges contain some sort of sensor equipment. At the range a fighter usually engages, sensors should not be nessecairy.
 - Nope.

[darkpaladin109]

Guess I'm at least going to make a character sheet and ship until the rules are finished.
Character sheet

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Golil Shl'rug
Home planet: Norniak 8
Race and short history: Golil is an warrior of the ever expanding Miclekig species. The Miclekigs are a species of insectoid aliens who reproduce at an faster rate than others. As a result, they usually need to find habitable areas every few years. Rather than making their own technology, they steal and reverse engineer the technology of other species. As a result, they had laser technology before humans did, and have already invented very basic shield sistems on certain ships, alongside handheld laser guns. Their vehicles usually have an insect motif and name. Golil was a regular soldier, up until the fateful day he was separated from the rest of his squad, losing connection with the rest of his species. He was lost and confused, but finally free from his hive. It was strange, yet somehow refreshing. Golil decided to run away and explore the rest of the universe while he is still free from the rest of his species.

Ship: The Beetle:
   

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ship type: Fighter
Ship size: 100 m³
Structural health: 100
Armor: 10
Damage Resistance: 5
Maneuverability: +3

Mandatory:
    - Engine: Fighter Engine, size 15, power -15
    - Reactor: Fusion reactor, size 15, +150 power
    - Bridge: Combat Bridge, size 1, -10 power
    - Life support: size 5, -5 power
     Additional:
    - Weaponry: 4 small laser cannons on front, size 20, power -10   
    - Sensors: None
    - Armor: Standard armor plating, 10 Armor Points, 5 DR
    - Shields: Disruptor Shield, size 5, -5 power         
    - Jump drive: Blink drive, size 10, -20 power     
    - Storage: Hazardous Materials storage, size 5, -1 power         
    - Auxiliary: None
    Size used: 76/100
    Power left: 84   

           
Equipment and skills:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Equipment: Micekig soldier armor (Fully body armor, helmet shaped specifically for Micekigs), Micekig laser pistol, 2 replacement reactors (Laser pistol recharges ammo for shots with the reactor, however reactors decay over time, decaying faster if it's used more), Emergency energy knife (attached to wrist part of armor).
Skills: -Micekig: Being a Micekig, Golil is not trusted by most people.
         -Helmet interface: Micekig troop helmets have an interface that allows to track enemies by their body heat, or display sattelite maps or star charts to aid in moving around battlefields and galaxies.                 
          Helmets must be ocasionally repaired to maintain these functions.
         -Combat training: Golil is trained in using and maintaining his equipment. +1 to using and doing maintanance on his equipment.

Is there any problem with this character (backstory or equipment)?

[10ebbor10]

This is now slightly more finished.

[Pancaek]

right, I think I've got everything I need to have a working ship.

[swordsmith04]

Since another player already introduced an 'enemy' alien species, I'll just copy it.

Name: Dalibor Burrell
Home planet: Alpha Centauri-A II

Spoiler: Racial History (click to show/hide)

At times, it seems like the universe hates humans. It's been one thing after another for centuries; the conflicts of the twentieth century followed by the crises of the twenty-first, leading to the nuclear war that destroyed an already devastated Earth. The invention of FTL travel leading to a mad scramble to find other habitable planets before Earth became completely uninhabitable. The interstellar wars, in which humanity had to fight off already-established alien civilizations and empires to hold on to their little slice of the galaxy. And just when humanity had entered a period of relative peace, the Miclekigs appear. The "Micks" are a species of imperialistic insectoid aliens that breed like rats, and are intent on seizing the habitable worlds humanity controls. With such hardship and hostility, humanity has been pretty much forced to unite or be killed off.

Earth, the ancestral homeworld of humanity, is little more than an irradiated rock in current times. It's completely uninhabitable, and projected to remain so for several thousand years. Billions died before humanity could launch itself into the stars, and millions died in space or on the fledgling colonies, before proper infrastructure could be built. One of the first colonies, Alpha Centauri-A II has a population of roughly 3.5 billion; many of its inhabitants call it 'New Earth', due to the similarity. The Interstellar Navy's Headquarters are based there, and it's in roughly the center of human space. As a result, it is often considered the unofficial 'capital' of humanity.

Spoiler: Biography (click to show/hide)

Dalibor Burrell comes from a working class family in one of the nicer cities of Alpha Centauri-A II. He wasn't interested in working in the factories, like his father, so he took advantage of one of the Interstellar Navy's recruitment drives to get through college at a reduced cost. He ended up serving a two year tour on the destroyer INS Sendoa, before it was destroyed in the Battle for Mu Arae. Fortunately for him, the Interstellar Navy won that one and retrieved his escape pod in time. The brush with death would serve as motivation, and when his tour was over he applied for additional training and became a junior officer. Since then he has risen through the ranks and found his calling as a starship captain. He currently commands the INS Seren, which although a fine ship, is only a corvette. Dalibor hopes to command a ship of the Sendoa's caliber, one day.

Dalibor is fairly young for an Interstellar Navy Captain, in his early thirties. He is fit but not muscular, and is of average height. His features are vaguely Slavic.

Spoiler: INS Seren (click to show/hide)

Corvette - 1000m³
Structural Health - 1000
Armor - 200
Maneuverability - (+4)

H-Power Engines [100/1000] (Power 500) (+4 Maneuverability, +2 Engine Power)
Fusion Reactors [220/1000] (Power -2200)
Combat Bridge [10/1000] (Power 10) (+4 to Combat Rolls)
Standard Life Support [175/1000] (Power 175) (35 Crew)
Medbay [25/1000] (Power 25) (5 Sickbeds)
Active Sensors [50/1000] (Power 125) (+4 Scans, -2 Stealth)
ECM [100/1000] (Power 250) (-4 Enemy Scans)
Ablative Armor Plating (Armor 200) (Reduces incoming damage to 20% armor health)
(No shields)
Blink Drive [100/1000] (Power 200) (Jumps in 5 combat turns; Can do microjumps)
Generic Storage [80/1000]
Reinforced Hazardous Materials Storage [10/1000] (Power 10)
Large Railgun [50/1000] (Power 500)
4x Medium Laser Turret [80/1000] (Power 400)

[1000/1000] (Power 2195/2200)

Spoiler: Equipment (click to show/hide)

IN Captain's Uniform
Gunpowder Pistol
8x Military Laser Rifles, Battery-Powered (Armory)
12x Gunpowder Assault Rifles (Armory)
16x Laser Batteries (Armory)
12x Assault Rifle Magazines (Armory)
I assume the weapons in the ship's armory would be considered as belonging to the captain. This is mostly to provide some flavor on what I see humans as using in this setting, so feel free to ignore the 'armory'. (Specifically, a mix of lasers and traditional guns, with lasers being fairly rare compared to gunpowder weapons.)

Spoiler: 'Skills' (click to show/hide)

Not entirely sure what to put here.

• Dalibor has a steady arm, and has training and practice with aiming and firing laser rifles. The recoil of the gunpowder ARs throw him off, though. +1 to Combat Rolls involving handheld laser weaponry, -1 to Combat Rolls involving Gunpowder weaponry, except at close range (Like the kind you'd use a pistol at, heh.)
• Dalibor has spent almost half his life aboard spaceships, and has learnt a thing or two about how they work. He can improvise some pretty good repairs, too.
• Dalibor is an experienced officer, and his men trust him in battle. +1 to crewmen's rolls in a firefight

Done, I guess.

[Pancaek]

-edit- disregard that I need to leearn to pay more attention to what I'm reading-

[10ebbor10]

I'll process the currently available sheets tomorrow, so that we can start of the game before the end of the week. Don't hurry though.

[DarkArtemisFowl]

Yes, I still need to make my ship, thanks.

[Caellath]

Hey, ebbor. I may join, though I am almost disappointed the ship system's been simplified meaning my old designs won't work. I'll see if I can adapt the Godsplitter to this system, or at least a simpler ship like the Oathbreaker.

[10ebbor10]

The old system had numerous flaws. On a side note, I can always add additional parts if you want too.