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[_DivideByZero_]

This is a Sci-fi RtD. In space!

Players will control characters on a colony ship in search of a new home. New mechanics for combat and the like shall be added as the game progresses, but where this will go... nobody knows.

The game will most likely end when a colony is established and no more complications occur. I do not intend to make this an easy task, however. *grins*

BACKGROUND INFO

In a faraway sector, human colonists had settled the stars. They spread themselves out over many worlds, developing new culture and technologies. After only a few decades of expansion, however, scientists stumbled upon a very inconvenient fact: their entire sector was parked in front of a dying star, directly within the sights of a gamma ray burst. Knowing the only way to escape inevitable doom, they constructed a series of arks meant to ferry away thousands of people to safer worlds. Our story revolves around the first of these, the Anaxagoras.

The Anaxagoras is a 150,000 tonne vessel carrying 10,000 souls, mostly in various stages of a freeze/unfreeze cycle designed to slow down aging and minimize food requirements. The working crew of the ship consists of a meager six and a captain, which are periodically awakened in order to check on the ship and make decisions. Travelling through wormholes parked at varying distances from stars, left by the ancients, the Anaxagoras makes its way from system to system, light-years away from home, in a seemingly-endless journey to find a planet on which to continue mankind's legacy. Only time will tell if they will succeed.

RULES AND MECHANICS

First off:

• Bold your actions! I cannot stress how important it is for the GM to know what people actually want to do. Please edit posts that are no longer relevant.
• Quote people when you are talking to their characters, just to avoid confusion.
• Major actions include: combat, crafting, entering a conversation (the GM can continue conversations out of a roll post), etc. Minor actions are simple things such as moving about, looting containers, banter, etc. You can have one major action and several minor actions per roll.
• If you do not post within a week of the last roll, your character will be auto'd. After the first auto, I will no longer wait for that character's actions before rolling. After three autos your character becomes an NPC and you must enter the waiting list to rejoin.
• Conversation with player characters does not require an action. Please interact with players that are talking to you! I tend to avoid 'possessing' player characters with the voice of the GM as only the player truly knows how the character would speak in a certain situation.
• OOC chat should be marked with ((double parenthesis)). Spoilers are recommended, but not required.

Thanks for reading!

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Spoiler: Dice (click to show/hide)

All actions use a d6. The results are as follows:

1: You fail horribly, causing harm to yourself and others.
2: You fail to do what you wanted to accomplish.
3: You find limited success.
4: You accomplish what you wanted to do.
5: You perfectly succeed at what you wanted to do.
6: You overshoot, succeeding but going too far and possibly causing harm.

All bonuses add to both the result and the maximum number of sides on the die (the initial value of the die is still between 1 and 6). Then, penalties are subtracted from the result. Finally, the final value is determined by translating the percentage of the roll onto a normal d6. Rolls are displayed as followed:
[(d6 + Bonuses - penalties)/(6 + Bonuses) = ~Final Result]
For example, with a bonus of 2 and penalty of 1, rolling a 5 on the d6 roll: [5+2-1/7 = ~5]

Spoiler: Dice Table (click to show/hide)

This is just a set of tables with various outcomes. *Note that you can only go below 1-Action Bonus if you have penalties to your action.

Action Bonus: 1
*Value 1: ~1
Value 2: ~2
Value 3: ~3
Value 4: ~3
Value 5: ~4
Value 6: ~5
Value 7: ~6

Action Bonus: 2
*Value 1: ~1
*Value 2: ~2
Value 3: ~2
Value 4: ~3
Value 5: ~4
Value 6: ~5
Value 7: ~5
Value 8: ~6

Action Bonus: 3
*Value 1: ~1
*Value 2: ~1
*Value 3: ~2
Value 4: ~3
Value 5: ~3
Value 6: ~4
Value 7: ~5
Value 8: ~5
Value 9: ~6

Action Bonus: 4
*Value 1: ~1
*Value 2: ~1
*Value 3: ~2
*Value 4: ~2
Value 5: ~3
Value 6: ~4
Value 7: ~4
Value 8: ~5
Value 9: ~5
Value 10: ~6

Action Bonus: 5
*Value 1: ~1
*Value 2: ~1
*Value 3: ~2
*Value 4: ~2
*Value 5: ~3
Value 6: ~3
Value 7: ~4
Value 8: ~4
Value 9: ~5
Value 10: ~5
Value 11: ~6

Action Bonus: 6
*Value 1: ~1
*Value 2: ~1
*Value 3: ~2
*Value 4: ~2
*Value 5: ~3
*Value 6: ~3
Value 7: ~4
Value 8: ~4
Value 9: ~5
Value 10: ~5
Value 11: ~6
Value 12: ~6

Spoiler: Attributes (click to show/hide)

Most actions in the game fall under one of the main attributes of characters. These attributes are:

Diplomacy: Social skills and interaction
Force: Direct intervention and use of force
Intrigue: Plotting and deception
Wisdom: Science and invention

Actions related to a specific attribute gain a bonus for that action equal to the corresponding attribute.

Spoiler: Traits (click to show/hide)

Traits are modifiers that give you bonuses and penalties to actions falling under a certain category. Traits can be positive, negative, or neutral.
Traits can be simple or complicated. An example of a simple trait is Ambidextrous. An example of a complex trait is Ambusher.

A simple trait is a blanket modifier for actions of a certain category. A complex trait has certain timings in which it can be triggered. Complex traits are generally allowed to be more powerful than simple traits, but are usually situational.

Traits are not generic skill with a weapon. That mechanic will be added in the future.
Traits can also have levels. Engineer [3] for example will give a +3 bonus, while Engineer [1] will only give +1.

Spoiler: Leveling (click to show/hide)

Every time you roll a base 5, you will level up. (This amounts to leveling up 1/6th of the time)
When you level up, the attribute you used will gain 1 point.
Additionally, you can gain miniquests over time. Miniquests are little minigames that will ask you to do a certain action a number of times. Their outcomes vary, but usually they are how you gain new traits.

STARFARING

So you thought this was a regular RtD? Well, the point of this RtD is to travel from star to star and perform !!science!! on planets to see if you can start a colony or base somewhere. You have limited manpower, but technology is on your side.
I would recommend checking out this site as it contains a lot of interesting info on science fiction concepts and science. It is a lot of reading, though, so don't look at it as required reading but more of a time-waster for those inclined to like sci-fi.

This section of the OP will remain as-is, but future mechanics will be altered and added. I won't update the OP as it will cause a lot of confusion when I forget to, so for all intents and purposes, you'll just learn as you go if you haven't followed along.

Spoiler: DeltaV (click to show/hide)

DeltaV is your ability to go places. It literally means 'Change in Velocity', and is a measure of how much your current fuel output can accelerate your ship. DeltaV is given by the following equation, where Ve is your drive's exhaust velocity, and R is your ship's mass ratio:

ΔV = Ve * ln(R)

To increase DeltaV, you have two options. You can first change your drive so that your exhaust velocity is higher, but this is usually impractical. The other option is to increase your Mass Ratio. Mass Ratio, or R, is equal to m0/m1, where m0 is the full (or current) mass of your ship, and m1 is the unfueled (or dry) mass of your ship. A Mass Ratio of 2 means half your ship is fuel; A Mass Ratio of 1 means your ship has no fuel left.

Consider a Nuclear Thermal Rocket with an exhaust velocity of about 50,000 m/s and 60% of its mass dedicated to fuel supply. The above equation gives us a ΔV of about 45800 m/s. Not bad in real-life terms, but absurdly pathetic when it comes to science fiction. You will have to refuel. A lot.
Most orbital transfers have a ΔV cost ranging in the hundreds to thousands of m/s. To escape the sun with our drive from Earth, we have to expend all of our fuel supply!

Spoiler: Drive (click to show/hide)

Our drive is an Open Cycle Gas Core Nuclear Thermal Rocket. To quote Atomic Rockets:

Gaseous uranium is injected into the reaction chamber until there is enough to start a furious chain reaction. Hydrogen is then injected from the chamber walls into the center of this nuclear inferno where is flash heats and shoots out the exhaust nozzle.

The trouble is the uranium shoots out the exhaust as well.

The reaction is maintained in a vortex tailored to minimize loss of uranium out the nozzle. Fuel is uranium hexaflouride (U235F6), propellant is hydrogen. However, in one of the designs, U235 is injected by gradually inserting into the fireball a long rod of solid uranium. The loss of uranium in the exhaust reduces efficiency and angers environmentalists.

In some designs the reaction chamber is spun like a centrifuge. This encourages the heavier uranium to stay in the chamber instead of leaking into the exhaust. This makes for a rather spectacular failure mode if the centrifuge's bearings seize.

The fuel is Uranium Hexaflouride (abbreviated as Hex) and the propellant is Hydrogen. For our journey, we will need both in order to continue our trip and avoid getting stranded. Where do we acquire these materials, you ask? Well...

• Hydrogen is the easiest to acquire. It can be acquired from hydrocarbons, or mined from the atmosphere of a Gas Giant
• Uranium is harder to acquire, but the overall amount of uranium consumed by the drive is lower than that of the propellant. It must be found within rocky planetoids, then processed into Hex through a variety of chemical processes.
• If hydrogen cannot be acquired, you have the options of: Methane (-20% DeltaV Penalty), Ammonia (-37% DeltaV Penalty), Water (-50% DeltaV Penalty), and if you are desperate, CO2(-59% DeltaV Penalty), N2 or CO (Both -67% DeltaV Penalty). This goes for most nuclear thermal rockets in general. If you are using a less efficient propellant, your thrust (and therefore acceleration) also goes down.

Total mass flow through the engine is 50 tonnes of fuel/second. 1.86 kg/second consists of Hex fuel. The rest is propellant.

Spoiler: Missions (click to show/hide)

Missions is just the blanket term for a series of waypoints. Since brachistochrone missions (i.e you start accelerating constantly and then flip over at the halfway point) require an outrageous amount of DeltaV, far more than our humble thrusters can handle.
Instead, we will be using Hohmann Transfers! If it is not already apparent, a Hohmann Transfer is a minimum-deltaV and maximum-transit-time approach to space travel. How long of a transit time, you ask? Well....

(Red letters are synodic periods, i.e. how often you can make the trip (you have to wait for a synodic period or you will fail to rendezvous with the target)
Blue letters are transit times.)

And for the DeltaV costs of the above trips:

(All values are DeltaV in m/s. Red values include takoff vlaues. Diagonal values are the DeltaV needed to take off from surface (or 100km orbit if target is a gas giant.))

So as you can see, our base transit times are very high. Of course, you can work your way around some of them (i.e. to get from Pluto to Neptune it takes 102 years, but if you go to Mercury first then Neptune it only takes 74 years.)
You can sometimes put a little more thrust to the engines (The math is complicated and I have very little understanding of it. Plus, I don't want to bore people more than I already have. But I do have an excel doc and a link to some calculations if anyone is interested!). So for the purposes of this RtD we shall obviously use a dice to figure out how much extra DeltaV you need to put in to get a faster transit time. Using Atomic Rockets as our source, we see that impulse trajectories can result in 5x faster transit times, but up to 3x higher DeltaV costs. So here is how it will work:

When you plot a trajectory, you have the option of using a standard trajectory (no dice roll) a fast trajectory (I will run some calculations with my magical spreadsheets, no roll required), or a complex trajectory, rolling for bonus speed and fuel expenditure. When you pick an option, you may switch to one of the others, but you may not roll again.
Plotting a fast trajectory has two dice rolls associated with it. The dice bonus for this is based on traits that increase Navigation. The Astrogator [] trait, for example, gives a bonus to Navigation. You can also upgrade your ship's computer, which further adds to the bonus. Only the most skilled person on the ship will be counted.

DeltaV Penalty:
1: +200% DeltaV required
2: +60% DeltaV required
3: +40% DeltaV required
4: +20% DeltaV required
5: +0% DeltaV required
6: +-20% DeltaV required.

Transit Time:
1: -20% Transit Time
2: -30% Transit Time
3: -40% Transit Time
4: -50% Transit Time
5: -60% Transit Time
6: -70% Transit Time

This results in transit times ranging from several months to years in the same system, making for a long and arduous journey. But remember that the crew of the ship are only periodically awakened! That means that your characters won't have to wait around too long. The actual gameplay will take place during critical moments where you have decisions to make.

Spoiler: Planetary Exploration (click to show/hide)

When you go into orbit around a planet, you will have several options.
Detachable Craft
Your ship has craft that can be detached and land on the planet on their own accord. This ranges from recon probes, to cargo shuttles, to automated miners. Building detachable craft is a great way to explore a planet's characteristics without losing crew to accidents.

Landing Teams
Your ship has several shuttles that can be used to ferry crew to the surface. You can go to the surface yourself or send one of the 10,000 reserves you have in the life support bay.
Some shuttle designs can manage SSTO (single-stage-to-orbit) on their own. Others must be refueled on the surface, or must receive fuel supplies via orbital drop in order to get back to the surface.

Temporary Base
You can construct temporary bases using either materials carried down with you, or materials found on-site.

Permanent Colony
Constructing a permanent base requires that you leave enough supplies for the long-term. You do not need to send everything down to create the colony, only ensure that the colony can prosper on its own. This will most likely require training.

Remember that there is a radio horizon associated with broadcasting remote commands to a specific point on a planet's surface. This time is based soley on four factors: The altitude of the orbit, the radius of the planet, the planet's rotation, and the planet's gravitational parameter (GM). This assumes a circular orbit.
The equation is as follows:

w1 = sqrt(GM/(R+A)^3)
β = atan(sqrt(2*R*A + A^2)/R)

T = 2π/(w1 - w2)
t = T * (β / 2π)

Where t is the length of the communication window, T is the time between windows, R is the planet's radius, A is the altitude, w2 is the angular rotation of the planet (rad/sec), G is the gravitational constant, and M is the mass of the planet. If you are in a retrograde orbit (i.e one rotating opposite the planet's motion), then replace (w1 - w2) with (w1 + w2). Retrograde orbits give you shorter and more numerous communication windows, but are more dangerous as you can slam into stuff going the opposite direction.

Spoiler: Crew Management (click to show/hide)

Your people are finite and limited. Until you unfreeze them and begin training, that is. Your ship can only support a limited number of active crew at a time, and they will consume supplies much faster when active. You don't have enough supplies to keep a large number of people awake for too long.

Your crew readout looks something like this:
Current Reserve: 10,000 crew (300t supplies/yr)
Currently Active: 7 crew (7t supplies/yr)

Spoiler: Ship Management (click to show/hide)

Your ship has four primary factors that need to be managed, aside from general maintenance and structural integrity.

• Fuel is needed to perform missions and travel through space
• Power is needed to keep all systems running
• Supplies are needed to keep the crew alive
• Heat needs to be radiated to keep systems from melting

Fuel
Your ship's drive needs to shoot stuff out the back in order for you to get anywhere. This means that at least some of your ship needs to be dedicated to propellant and fuel supply.
Fuel has two components:
-Propellant is what goes out the back. You can use just about anything (even pressurized beer!), but some propellants work better than others. Some drives (such as ion drives) do not work with stuff like water or beer, and require more specialized fuels such as pure elements.
-Reaction mass is needed to provide the energy for the drive. In most designs this is uranium or fusion fuel. Sometimes all you need is electricity. If you use the same reaction mass as your power generator's fuel supply, you can simplify the amount of resources you need in order to stay running.

Fuel is displayed along with DeltaV information:
Total Fuel:
-Hydrogen: 90,000 tonnes
-Hex: 10 tonnes (185% excess)
Current Mass/Dry Mass: 150,000 / 60,000 tonnes
DeltaV Capacity: 45800 m/s

Power
Your ship will require a baseline of 1 MW at all times to run successfully. This is about 1 gram of uranium per day, or more accurately, about 0.39 kg of uranium per year. In order to keep your ship running, you need to feed your reactor with whatever fuel it desires to run at the baseline level.
The power readout will look something like this:

Current Output: 1 MW
Maximum Output: 1 GW
Current Fuel Usage: 0.39 kg/yr
Fuel Stores: 10 tonnes- 3.5 tonnes reserved for drive
Fuel Time Remaining: ~16700 yr

Supplies
There are two types of supplies, called Spare Parts and Supplies respectively.

Supplies are consumed constantly based on how many active personnel you have. Supplies is a blanket term for not only food and water, but for repairs as well. When crew consumes supplies, it is added to the 'Recyclable' supply pool. This means that it can be recovered through recycling and reprocessing.
A dormant crewman consumes supplies at a rate of 30 kg/ year.
An active crewman consumes supplies at a rate of 2,000kg/ year. (this includes player characters)

Supplies can be grown through hydroponics. Hydroponics consume supplies from the 'Recyclable' pool--they cannot grow mass out of nothing.

Repairs cost a specific amount of spare parts to finish based on the damage being repaired. Player characters can manually perform repairs, but the amount of parts spent depends on a dice roll. Take a trait that improves repair skill in order to boost the rate at which you can repair! Repairs count as minor actions if the character is not busy with something that cannot be interrupted (like combat).

Salvaging damaged items can add to your spare parts. These act as non-recyclable supplies, which are used first when repairing.

The supply readout looks like the following:
Total Supplies: 8,900 tonnes
Recycling Pool: 100 tonnes
Total Spare Parts: 1,000 tonnes
Supply Use:
+100 tonne/yr (hydroponics)
- 307 tonne/yr (crew)
Spare Parts Use:
- 1 tonne/yr (maintenance)
Supply Time Remaining: ~43 yr

Heat
Your ship's average temperature is maintained at 21°C constantly. This requires that the radiators function properly. Since the radiators do not require any power to run, the only thing that needs to be managed is whether or not the radiators are extended. Radiators must be extended to function (without them, your ship will gradually heat up), but can be damaged while extended.

The heat readout:
Current Temperature: 21°C
Radiator Temperature: 45°C
Equilibrium Temperature: 21°C

Spoiler: Repairs (click to show/hide)

Repairs

There are always objects and systems to repair. But just like real life, human fingers are pretty terrible at manipulating small pieces of metal.
When repairing something, there are a number of things to consider:

• The kind of repairs you are making. Different tasks may require different tools. A pipe, for example, may require Force to repair instead of Wisdom.
  
• Do you know what the problem is? Characters do not magically know all information related to the game. You can't just look at an object and see that it is broken, for example, you'd have to turn it on or find out visually (e.g a cable is unplugged). If you can't pinpoint what is wrong with the item, then you get no bonuses from attributes when repairing it.
  
• Do you have the means to fix it? If your character doesn't have powered tools or the proper manipulators for the task, you will suffer a penalty based on the difficulty of the action. Trying to fix in the aforementioned pipe with your bare hands will only give a -1 penalty, for example, but trying to perform surgery without cutting tools will incur a massive penalty. If your character is skilled enough, however, he might be able to do something despite penalties!
  

The following is a list of criteria for how difficult it is to repair something:
-Lacks needed tools: -1
-Lacks expertise: -1
-Lacks spare parts: -2
-Lacks needed machinery: -3

There are also three main Engineering traits, which provide bonuses to repairs and maintainence:
-Electrical Engineer: Gives bonuses to computer and electronics repair that goes beyond basic circuitry, such as robotics, software/hardware integration, and batteries/poweer generation.
-Starship Engineer: Gives bonuses to starship/habitat-specific repairs, such as life support, engines, weaponry, some machinery, and basic electrical circuits. This also applies to habitats on surface worlds with inhospitable conditions.
-Mechanical Engineer: Gives bonuses to structure/machinery repairs that are relevant to fields outside of starships. This includes armor, hydraulic/pneumatic systems, material failure and fatigue, and heavy machinery.

Spoiler: Meta (click to show/hide)

Sensors

The Anaxagoras has 20 sensor booms mounted at various points at the hull, constantly scanning and receiving information. Each boom offers sensor strength, which can be allocated toward different tasks. Any tasks require a certain number of sensor points to complete, and each sensor power translates to one sensor point per month.

Sensors are delicate and complicated instruments, and maintaining them in perfect condition is important, as without proper astronomical measurements, you might crash. Or worse!

Example Sensor Display:

Current Sensor Power: 20
+20 from base

Sensor Tasks:
-Scan Omicron Illiad 676 a (0/15) +0
-Scan Omicron Illiad 676 b (0/12) +0
-Scan Omicron Illiad 676 c (0/9) +0
-Scan Omicron Illiad 676 d (0/6) +0
-Construct Navigational Map of System (0/3) +0

Please allocate sensor power


Sleep

When your characters are finished planning for the near future, you may sleep for a certain number of months. This will tick all fuel and supply consumption values.
Typically, you should sleep until a trip or some sensor work is finished.

CHARACTERS

This is the character sheet. Waitlist and playerlist in next post.

Rules for stats and traits:
-Each person gets 10 points.
-One point in an attribute costs 2 points
-A positive trait costs 2 points
-A neutral trait costs 1 point
-A negative trait gives 2 points
-You can have a maximum of 6 traits at the beginning (this is an absolute max, not a recommended amount)

Character Sheet:

Code: [Select]

[b]Name: [/b]
[b]Appearance: [/b](Mention general appearance, such as tall, skinny, fat, scars, etc.)
[b]Homeworld: [/b](Mention what kind of world. For example, feudal world, cyberpunk world, united Terran world, and so on. You can be as creative as you'd like)
[b]Background: [/b](An education should suffice, but feel free to tell a story.)
[b]Attributes: [/b](Put a number by each.)
[img]http://www.ckiiwiki.com/images/5/5e/Icon_diplomacy.png[/img][b]Diplomacy[/b]:
[img]http://www.ckiiwiki.com/images/4/4c/Icon_martial.png[/img][b]Force[/b]:
[img]http://www.ckiiwiki.com/images/6/6e/Icon_intrigue.png[/img][b]Intrigue[/b]:
[img]http://www.ckiiwiki.com/images/9/9d/Icon_learning.png[/img][b]Wisdom[/b]:
[b]Traits: [/b](Color them blue for positive, darkorange for neutral, red for negative. Abbr tag preferred, but if you can't be bothered, then just write it out.)


Six characters will be picked in the end (this is not FCFS). At the same time, we will be designing the Anaxagoras!

Current Players:
-Varee
-Alev
-Samarkand
-DarkArtemisFowl
-IcyTea31
-Powder Miner

Waitlist (1):
-Playergamer

[Varee]

damn this look crazy complicated, just the way i like it, will reserve a spot till i finish the rule

Spoiler: Character sheet (click to show/hide)

Name:Vex
Appearance:short, skinny, quite old, this,grayish hair, wear glasses. (Mention general appearance, such as tall, skinny, fat, scars, etc.)
Homeworld: Asteriod miner station.(Mention what kind of world. For example, feudal world, cyberpunk world, united Terran world, and so on. You can be as creative as you'd like)
Background:Vex is a space rat, one of those that never see land. He is born raise and lived on a space station. He is trained as an engineer and transport driver. He is good at weaving between asteroids. (An education should suffice, but feel free to tell a story.)
Attributes: (Put a number by each.)
Diplomacy:1
Force:0
Intrigue: 1
Wisdom:3
Traits:
Short sighted(visual impair) (-2 to action without glasses?)
Fragile
Engineering
Piloting (Color them blue for positive, darkorange for neutral, red for negative. Abbr tag preferred, but if you can't be bothered, then just write it out.)

[Samarkand]

Name: Nous

Rest of the sheet will go up when I'm on my computer and can format properly. Reserving that name though!

[Powder Miner]

Spoiler: sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Zaynab Hussain
Appearance: This woman is in her late twenties, and stands at 5'5'' with a rather slim build. Her skin is a white color (albeit with some tanning), and her hair is a brown color and goes down to her shoulder. She has nothing in the way of scars, though her left arm is a little bit crooked. She tends to wear clothing of a red color, and likes long sleeves.
Homeworld: Aura, a rather windy moon, and an important one.
Background: Having received a rather posh upbringing on the windy moon of Aura, Zaynab easily made it through a full MD, before later specializing in psychiatry. This was just before the arkships. Zaynab found herself incredibly surprised upon learning that she'd been selected to serve upon the arkship, and a psychiatrist-- after all, if your crew goes crazy you're rather doomed, and a measured and gentle voice can never hurt.
Attributes:
Diplomacy: 3
Force: 0
Intrigue: 0
Wisdom: 2
Traits: Crooked Arm, Born with a Silver Spoon, Psychiatrist, Soothing.

[Varee]

Your ship will require a baseline of 1 MW at all times to run successfully. This is about 1 kg of uranium every 81 seconds, or about 0.39 kg of uranium per year. In order to keep your ship running, you need to feed your reactor with whatever fuel it desires to run at the baseline level.


There something wrong with ths statement gm,it doesnt really add up

[Alev]

Your ship will require a baseline of 1 MW at all times to run successfully. This is about 1 kg of uranium every 81 seconds, or about 0.39 kg of uranium per year. In order to keep your ship running, you need to feed your reactor with whatever fuel it desires to run at the baseline level.


There something wrong with ths statement gm,it doesnt really add up

Yes, it should be 389591,679012 kg per year. Which is a lot.

[_DivideByZero_]

Your ship will require a baseline of 1 MW at all times to run successfully. This is about 1 kg of uranium every 81 seconds, or about 0.39 kg of uranium per year. In order to keep your ship running, you need to feed your reactor with whatever fuel it desires to run at the baseline level.


There something wrong with ths statement gm,it doesnt really add up

Yes, it should be 389591,679012 kg per year. Which is a lot.

The 1 kg statement is an error, I was about a million off before I went and fixed the values. The correct figure is 1 kg per 81000000 seconds.
The entire OP had to go through multiple cycles of revision before I even posted it, and several times after. xD You are welcome to point out any additional errors.

EDIT: @Powder Miner
Luna is far, far away from the sector in the lore. The worlds being talked about came from a colonial effort that brought several thousand humans across the galaxy several orders of magnitude of lightyears away. I've changed the OP a little since it seems to have been misleading.
Also @Varee, your sheet is a little broken due to the font. Does 'short sighted' refer to visual perception or to a mental habit?

[Samarkand]

Name: Sophie Nous             ((BTW, I love ancient philosophy…))
Appearance: Slightly below average height, wiry, pixy cut bleach blond hair
Homeworld: Grew up in the slums of a lunar community whose only industry was mining a nearby gas giant
Background: After she stole the journal of a man who was undercover for the government she was trained as a spy herself
Attributes:
Diplomacy: 1
Force: 2
Intrigue: 2
Wisdom: 1 
Traits: PTSD, Addict, Kleptomaniac, Vegetarian


((I think this fits well with the other sheets so far, let me know about the drug thing and whether or not you'd like more detail anywhere else.))

[Varee]

Well i dont see any other mistake yet
Also short sighted mean he needs a glasses to see properly

[_DivideByZero_]

Varee, your sheet is still broken. I would suggest going into replace mode and removing all size tags, since the sheet doesn't have any size BBcode.

Name: Sophie Nous             ((BTW, I love ancient philosophy…))
Appearance: Slightly below average height, wiry, pixy cut bleach blond hair
Homeworld: Grew up in the slums of a lunar community whose only industry was mining a nearby gas giant
Background: After she stole the journal of a man who was undercover for the government she was trained as a spy herself
Attributes:
Diplomacy: 1
Force: 2
Intrigue: 2
Wisdom: 1 
Traits: PTSD, Addict, Kleptomaniac, Vegetarian


((I think this fits well with the other sheets so far, let me know about the drug thing and whether or not you'd like more detail anywhere else.))

I can modify the traits to make them more consistent. For example:
PTSD: When surrounded by 3 or more targets, roll a dice. If the result is 3, become Panicked. (Panicked: -1 to all actions. Lasts x turns where x is the number of attackers minus 2)
Addict: When you don't have alcohol in your system, get -1 to all actions, getting an additional -1 after 5 turns and a third -1 after 10 more turns. Drinking alcohol cancels these effects for 10 turns.
((Alcohol makes the most sense here--you would not be picked as a member of the crew if you were dependent on something that couldn't be acquired in space))
Kleptomaniac: +1 to stealing small objects, -1 to doing anything else if you are able to.
Vegetarian: -1 to eating meat. +1 to eating vegetables.
((I have no idea how this works...))

[Samarkand]

Those look good to me. I wasn't sure how you wanted to balance so I left the mechanism a little vague.

[_DivideByZero_]

Those look good to me. I wasn't sure how you wanted to balance so I left the mechanism a little vague.

As a general note, neutral traits are not always good and not always bad. Negative traits always give penalties, while positive traits are never bad and only give bonuses.
More complicated traits will be added (such as 'You may dodge twice per turn') when new mechanics are introduced.

[Varee]

well i delete them. also is the table for solar system is used for the game? or is it just an example. also are we staying on the ark or are we going outside too.
the op make it sound like we train crew and send them out? so does the crew have random stat or are they blank slate?

[_DivideByZero_]

well i delete them. also is the table for solar system is used for the game? or is it just an example. also are we staying on the ark or are we going outside too.
the op make it sound like we train crew and send them out? so does the crew have random stat or are they blank slate?

• The table is just an example. Similar tables will be presented as the ship travels between star systems.
• You can leave the ship if you wish to go yourselves. Most of the crew are inexperienced and untrained, so you might be more effective on a ground mission than the reserve crew.
• Crew are basically NPC's. For example, if you can carry 15 on a shuttle you can send all 6 players plus 9 NPC's. The NPC's will have random stats but will have a -1 penalty to all actions due to being recently unfrozen. They also might have negative traits like Spoiled.
  
• You can train them in actual situations, or tech them yourselves. Having a character with a teaching trait is beneficial here, but having high Diplomacy and Wisdom can help.

[Powder Miner]

Fixed the homeworld problem.