Space Ships

This page is for rules on building, repairing, buying and selling of Space craft within the Future Path universe. For rules on combat in a space ship go here. For rules on piloting and exploration with space ships go here. For space ship weapons and other equipment go here

For the Character Sheet PDF file go [here!]

Space ships in Future Path are designed to be in many ways similar to a Character. Many peoples and cultures actively personify there ships and in honor of that tradition this game system represents ships with similar rules and layout to that of a Character.

Ship Examples

You can see a full list of Space Ships on the Space Ship Examples page. Below is a list of basic Ship examples.

Ship Summary

The foundation of a spaceship is the "Core" which determines the Tech Level of the ship and which type of FTL Drive it can use. The Core level determines how many points can be spent on the 6 Core System Attributes which affect all the different aspects of the ship. The Size of a ship determines Secondary Attributes like Hard Points and Bays. A ship can be generic or have a Hull Configuration which can modify secondary attributes. Lastly, a ship may also have Quirks which can add flavor and uniqueness to a ship.

Although not an aspect of a ship directly a ship is only as good as its crew. Crew can take on positions within the ship to help improve ship performance.

The Ship Core

The Core of the ship represents the foundation for its main systems otherwise known as the 6 Core System Attributes or (CSA). The Core is the power generator also known as a Reactor and a power distribution sub-system. Many different civilizations have built many different kinds of Cores. For example Nuclear reactors, Fusion Reactors, Anti-Matter Reactors, Black-Hole Reactor. They also need materials and components designed to distribute large amounts of power successfully across the ship. From simply using copper wiring, to super-conductive materials and even sub-space wireless power transmission.

Even though there are many different types, too many in fact to list here, there is a simple way to categorize them. Using the Tech level system Cores are listed by how advanced there technology is. The Tech Level of a Core can affect how powerful the Engines or Sensors and so on can be. This will be explained in the next section below. Class level also determines how advanced the FTL drive can be. FTLs are explained in the FTL Drive section below.

The Tech Level of the Ship Core also determines the maximum size a ship can be. Tech Level 1 ships maximum size is Large, Tech Level 2 is Gargantuan, and Tech Level 3 and 4 are both Colossal or they can build all sizes.

The 6 Core System Attributes of Space Ships

These 6 Core.System.Attributes are the galactic modern standard for ship building. They represent the foundation of a ship and its main functions. All other sub-systems and functions are effected by the performance of the 6 Core System Attributes. A ship's Core can only handle so much power flowing through it. So the 6 C.S.A have to be balanced so as to not overload the Ship Core. This is represented by the point buy system and the number of points available to spend is shown on the table to the right.

The 6 CSAs effect most other ship statistics. These sub-systems and there stats will be reviewed below in the Secondary Statistics section.

Table: Tech Level Bonuses

Tech Level	Points	Max Size	Cust. / Points
0	N/A	N/A	N/A
1	10	Large	1
2	15	Gargantuan	1
3	20	Colossal	2
4	25	Colossal	3

Engines

Engines are the heart of a ship. These do not affect a ship's faster then light speed. However, it does help a ship's mobility in combat as well as out race other ships with weaker engines.

• Bonus: Provides a bonus to Ship's Armor Class (AC) equal to the Engine's Modifier.
• Notes: This helps the ship's Pilot perform piloting functions of the ship.

Weapons

Ship's need to protect themselves in the wild depths of space. A ship's weapon system uses the equipment installed in hard points. An upgraded Weapon system provides the means of hitting the enemy harder.

• Bonus: Allows for a Weapon's Officer to re-roll successful d10s up to the modifier value. This also provides a bonus to the repair DC for battle damage.

Structure

How solid the ship's internals are. Shield's are not everything! Armor is necessary to keep you safe from the vacuum of space. Armor will not fail you when the power goes out.

• Bonus: This adds to the total number of required successful d10s to do battle damage. However, it also lowers the ship's AC by the modifier value.

Shields

How strong a ships shields are. Shields are a staple of space ships. It is the ability to reflect some of the incoming damage. Many upgrades can be done to shields to help it better defend itself. The stronger the shields the easier it is to detect a ship.

• Bonus: This adds to the number that needs to be meet or beat on a d10 for it to be considered successful and count toward battle damage. For every +2 for this modifier it lowers the Detection DC of the ship by 1 unless the shields are turned off.

Table: Ability Score Costs

Score	Points
7	–4
8	–2
9	–1
10	0
11	1
12	2
13	3
14	5
15	7
16	10
17	13
18	17
19	21
20	25

Electronics

Ship's may be built by the finest steels and alloys a civilization can fabricate but it is run by Electronics. Advance computer technology that both provides the ship with better functionality but also defensive and offensive cyberwarfare.

• Bonus: This can provide a bonus directly to certain Ship Functions like Hacking. This also adds a bonus to the DC a hacker will need to be to enter and stay undetected.

Sensors

Sensors are a ship's way of perceiving the universe. Sensors are used to scan for objects and to find out information about them or scan for shield weakness. This is also part of the system that performs communications.

• Bonus: This has multiple functions. A Sensor/Comms Officer can roll for a Weakness Scan against an enemy ship's AC. If successful the Sensor Modifier is added to all d10's rolled by the Weapon's Officer. If a ship is stealth-ed it may be required to perform a Scan against the ship's Detection DC to determine if the Weapons can even lock onto the enemy ship. The Sensors can also be used to determine specific information about an enemy ship or Jam signals.

Secondary Ship Attributes

Besides the 6 Core Ship Attributes there are Secondary Attributes. Just like a Character has stats that are affected by there ability scores these stats can be effected by the 6 Core Ship Attributes.

Repair DC Bonus (Battle Damage Bonus):

The Repair DC Bonus is equal to the Weapon's Mod. It is added to the Battle Damage Repair DC that is determined by the Battle Damage Die. Whenever enough successful d10s are rolled against a ship in combat that ship receives Battle Damage. The Battle Damage Die is rolled to determine the affect, if any happens as well as the DC to repair that damage. The Weapon's Mod of a ship is added to the Repair DC.

Damage Resistance (Resistance):
The Damage Resistance comes from the ship's Structure Mod. The better the ship Structure the more successful d10 rolls against the ship is necessary to do Battle Damage. By default the Damage Resistance is 4 and a Weapon's officer needs 4 successful d10s to do Battle Damage. However, a ship more Structure can add the Structure mod to the Damage Resistance.

Initiative:
Initiative determines who goes first in a stand-off. It also can determine the order that damage is dealt out in different combat phases. The total is: (Engines + Sensors) - Structure.

Reflectors (Shields):
A ship's Shield or Damage Reflector score by default is 4. It can be affected by improving the ship Shield's attribute. The Shield Mod is added to the Damage Reflector total. The higher the Reflector total the higher the d10 roll result has to be in order for that roll too count as a success.

Tactical Mobility:

This represents a bonus to how well the ship can move in combat. It comes from the Ship's Engine's Mod. However, a ship is only as good as the person piloting it and thus the max possible Tactical Mobility score is the Pilot's Pilot Skill Die level. (Skill Die level is equal to Skill Rank + Ability Modifier). The Tactical Mobility score comes from the ship's Engines. It is what is added to most Pilot functions. A ship's AC is 10 + (Tactical Mobility + Shield Mod) - Structure Mod +/- Size Mod. It is important to not only have good Engines but a good Pilot behind those Engines.

Battle Damage Defense:
This is the combination of Resistance (Structure) and Reflectors (Shields). The default is 4, 4 or 4 Resistance and 4 Reflectors. Which means that an attacker would have to roll 4 d10s that meet or beat a 4.

Passive Sensors:
This is based on the Sensor Mod. It is 10 + Sensor Mod. A Ship's Detection DC is used against this or a Sensor Scan to see if it is detected. Anything with a Detection DC at or below a Ship's Passive Sensors then it is automatically detected and a ship's crew should be made aware of it.

Stealth DC:

This by default is the Detection DC + Electronic's Mod (if positive) and is used whenever a ship runs in Stealth or Silent operation. This means a Ship's Shields are disabled. (It takes 1 round to turn them back on). It also means a ship cannot send out any signals or perform any scans of there own just receive signals or messages. It also means a ship cannot use any Ship function that requires Engines. A Ship can still move but only slowly.

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Sub Ship Attributes

Below are things that cannot be affected by the 6 Main Attributes. They are provided by default from the Hull Size/Configuration. However, some modifications were done by Characters such as installing modifications or upgrades.

Cargo Capacity:

Provided by the Hull Size this attribute can be modified by the Hull Configuration as well as by the Players that may want to modify there ship to hold more. More unit space is provided by converting bays into cargo holds. Each bay adds 1/4 of the default cargo space of the Hull Size of the ship. So if the ship is a medium size hull then converting one of the bays would provide an additional 120Units of space.

Cost/Procure Diff:
This is the cost of and procure diff of the ship. It is always nice to record what you paid for the ship. Or what your appraisal of the ship might be. The GM might tell the Players what the ship is worth if they find it. However, the GM might not. The Characters may have to roll checks to appraise the ship.

Crew:
This is a place to record who is the crew of the ship and what their bonuses are. If one of the crew takes over piloting, for example, you can look here to find their pilot bonus, so you do not have to re-write it.

Dimensions/Weight:
Simply a place to record its size. The only requirement here is that you record the Squares that the ship officially occupies which is based on size. However specific dimensions of the ship so that players can get a sense of the ships look and feel is always a nice touch of detail!

Passenger Capacity:

Ships can carry crew and passengers. This capacity refers to the total number of people that require life support on board the ship. However, passenger count is not the same as the required amount of crew members to manage a ship. Ships can run on a surprisingly small number of crew members due to advanced automation technology. It makes no sense to carry more 'meat bags' that could die at any moment into the harassed place in the universe. To carry more than the average necessary crew of 4 (counting the captain) a ship needs Passenger Bays installed. If all available bays are installed, then the maximum amount passenger capacity is reached + the crew. This is dictated by the Hull Size.

Movement Speed:
This is the speed of the ship during combat. This is the number of 500ft squares a ship can move. An additional 500ft square is added based on the Engine Mod.

Name:
Of course, a ship has to have a name!

FTL Engine/Speed:
This the FTL of the ship. Which also determined the Travel speed of the craft.

Summary Design Specs:
A summary including Hull Size/Configuration/Quarks and other interesting tid pits of info. Such as history of the ship and what not. This is a nice place to add detail and 'character' to the ship. Kinda like giving a character a backstory this is where one would record such things.

Spending Points

The total number of Ship Point's come from a ship's Core Level (Tech Level). As well as any Bonus Points provied by Character's Crafting skill. For more rules on Character's crafting there own ships or ship components review the ship crafting rules below. Lastly additional points can be provided by Hull Configurations. Different configurations provide bonuses and special abilities that help make the ships stand apart from one another. Some of the bonuses come in the forum of additional points.

Just as in the alternative rules for Character Creation found here. The Player has to spend points on the 6 C.S.

Example of spending points

You have a Tech 1 Medium sized Hull and you want to spend points on your Sensors. That mean you have 10 points to spend. You also want better Engines and Shields. So you put a +1 in Engines and a +1 in Shields so they are both at 11. Each will cost 1 point. You now have 8 points left. However your main concern is Sensors sense this is a ship for your Diplomat. You want to have +4 for Sensors. This requires the 5 points for a Sensors score of 14. You now only have 3 points left. You must deiced where to spend these finial 3 points. If you do not spend the point when building the craft those points still exist. And if in a facility that allows for the crafting or repairing of a ship you can spend those remaining points. You can also re-align them.

Hull Sizes

The Hull Size is what lays out the Secondary Attributes for a spaceship. These secondary attributes may be modified by either the 6 Core Ship Attributes, Hull Configuration, or Ship Equipment. When building a ship or trying to price the ship out the price is first based on its size. Then its configuration (if it has one).

Below is a table of Hull sizes. All hulls must fit within these sizes. Sizes represent the number of squares that a craft will take up in space as well as what the base statistics of the ship. Much like a character taking up a 5ft square of personal spaceship also have the same personal space except they are in 500ft blocks instead. For more information about each column please review the text below the table.

Space Craft Sizes

Size	AC	Detection DC	Battle Damage	Sq ft / Num of Squares	Pass. Cap.	Avg. Weight	Cargo Capacity	Cust. / Bonus	Military Ship			Civilian Ship
									Cost / Procure Diff	Weapon Size / Hard Points	Number of Bays	Cost / Procure Diff	Weapon Size / Hard Points	Number of Bays
Colossal	8	7	5	~512,000+ ft / ~1,024 sq	432	~65,536 Tons	65,000 Units	+3	2.9 Billion / 4	Huge / 10	8	972 Million / 4	Huge / 8	10
Gargantuan	8	8	4	~128,000+ ft / ~256 sq	144	~16,384 Tons	16,000 Units	+2	972 Million / 3	Large / 9	7	324 Million / 3	Large / 7	9
Huge	9	9	4	~32,000+ ft / ~64 sq	48	~4096 Tons	4,000 Units	+2	324 Million / 3	Large / 8	5	108 Million / 2	Large / 6	8
Large	9	10	3	~8,000+ ft / ~16 sq	16	~1,024 Tons	1,000 Units	+2	108 Million / 2	Medium / 7	4	36 Million / 1	Medium / 5	7
Medium	10	10	3	~4,000+ ft / ~8 sq	8	~512 Tons	510 Units	+1	36 Million / 2	Medium / 6	3	12 Million / 0	Medium / 4	6
Small	11	10	2	~2,000+ ft / ~4 sq	4	~256 Tons	250 Units	+1	12 Million / 1	Small / 6	2	4 Million / 0	Small / 4	5
Tiny	11	11	2	~500+ ft / ~1 sq	3	~64 Tons	64 Units	+1	1.9 Million / 1	Small / 5	1	640,000 / 0	Small / 3	4
Diminutive	12	12	1	~125 ft / 16 per sq	2	~16 Tons	16 Unit	+0	480,000 / 1	Small / 3	0	160,000 / 0	Small / 2	2
Fine	12	13	0	<75 ft / 256 per sq	1	~4 Tons	4 Units	+0	240,000 / 0	Small / 2	0	80,000 / 0	Small / 1	1

Table: Column key for Space Craft Size table.
Size The Size Modifier's act like they do for creatures of the same size. They either add or take away from the total AC. This effects combat as well. A larger ship may have a harder time hitting a smaller ship. Learn more about ship combat here. Size is also what predetermines the majority of the base stats of the ship.
Detection DC This determines how hard it is for other ships to see the ship. If the Detection DC is at or below another ship's Passive Sensor Score then the ship is visible to there sensors and its location and basic information is known.
Battle Damage This is how much damage a ship can take before it becomes disabled. A ship can only receive one Battle Damage a round unless a critical happens. Also, with two rounds of successful Repair checks done by an Engineer a Battle Damage can be repaired. The Repair DC is determined by the Battle Damage Die. More on that in the combat rules.
Sq ft Anything more then ~1,024,000 Square Feet in size is consider Super Colossal and can only be a ship with exceptions from the GM. It would be considered a station. Even if the station has the ability to move around in the universe no craft of that magnitude could preform Faster Then Light travel without help from external sources. Also attacking a ship or structure of that size would be considered as attacking a station and thus different modifiers apply.
Passenger Capacity (Pass. Cap.) This is not a hard limit. But the default number of people the ship's life support can handle permanently. This number can be raised with passenger bays.
Cargo Capacity The Cargo Capacity is measured in Cargo Units. This is a generic way to loop both volume and weight into a single unit. This represents the maximum extra volume and weight a ship can carry. Each Unit is 100Lbs and 1x1x1ft square of volume on average. Going over this unit amount will cause the ship to be over burdened. Which will cut Combat Speed in half. The maximum a ship can actually carry is twice the Unit amount. However, that is if there are no passengers other then the necessary crew. As every spare room and all the hallways would be filled with cargo containers. This can be increased with cargo bays.
Cust. Bonus Customization Bonus. This is a bonus added to the total Customization Points for a ship. Customization points are determined by Tech Level and Crafter level. Although Hull Configuration can also change the number of Customization Points, usually by removing some. They allow for Upgrades and Modifications to be installed. Upgrades and Modifications usually require Bays or Hard Points. However, a Customization Point can take the place of this requirement. Items that expressly require a Hard Point or Bay cannot use a customization point. Examples of these items are Weapons and Ship Bays.
Military vs Civilian Ships Military Ship are more expensive and have more Hard Points in comparison to a Civilian ship of the same size. However, Civilian ships have considerably more Bays.

Hull Configurations

Hull Configurations are an attempt at giving a space craft a more specialized purpose. It helps too determine what purpose the craft has. However it is not a requirement for ship building. A ship can have no specific Configuration and thus be a generic build.

Below is a table with common Hull configurations of the Future Path Universe. Further below is more detailed description of the ships themselves. Different configurations supply different bonuses to help to stylize the space ship.

Table: Hull Configurations

Barges The 'pack mule' of the galaxy. The barge is the most common cargo transport ship in existence. Many different corporations create different configurations from hauling every day goods, people, or extremely volatile substances. Many young adventures found themselves starting out aboard a barge. Not the most heroic place to start out with but there is sort of a romantic underdog appeal to the barge. This is probably helped by the fact that they can be found in every corner of the galaxy making them a dime a dozen and the Hull is pretty customizable. Which attracts all sorts of different types of people. Many of a raider or pirate uses a heavily modified Barge Hull to be a weapon against other ships of its like in lawless space. Average Size: Medium (Small - Large) Average Cost / Procure Diff: 12 Million / 0 Dis-Advantages: -2 to Engines, -1 To Weapons, -2 Hard Points, -1 Bay (Taken up by a extra Cargo Space) Advantages: Cargo Space is one ship size modifier higher. Super common Bonus -1 to Procure Diff and 50% less time/cost to repair.

Battle Cruisers A standard in most military fleets these larger, heaver counter parts to the Cruiser are powerful heavy hitting machines of war. While BattleShips dominate the heavens with impressive presence of power. The BattleCruiser is what gives a military its flexibility. Smaller and generally faster most militaries use these ships as a counter for smaller ships and a less expensive solution to dealing with small scale pirates and bandits. Average Size: Large Average Cost / Procure Diff: 120 Million / 3 Dis-Advantages: Cargo Capacity is one size lower, Passenger Cap is 8, -5 Attribute Points, -1 Customization point (Minimum 1) Advantages: +2 Electronics, +2 Engines, +1 Non-Weapon Hard Point, Can pick one Ship Function to have by default without taking up Customization Points.

Battle Ships These terrifying ships are massive war machines and are usually the backbone of militaries. These machines can be used to fight other Battle Ships while also grouping up to take on larger objects. Considered necessary for any large scale conflict in space these expensive massive machines are a must have. Average Size: Huge (or in some cases Gargantuan) Average Cost / Procure Diff: 384 Million / 4 Dis-Advantages: Cargo Capacity and Passenger Cap is one size smaller, -5 Attribute Points, -1 Customization Point (Minimal 1) Advantages: +2 Weapons, +1 Structure, +1 Engines, Ship gains the Bombard' function for free. Gains one more Ship Functions of your choice for free. +1 Hard Point (Weapon Only)

Capital So massive they are sometimes mistaken for stations these epic craft seam to defy logic as they effortlessly float in the heavens. Any military or civilization attempting to prove itself to others may build these behemoths. Usually Capital ships are not used to fight directly in combat but as a base of operations and control. Thus some consider them nothing more the propaganda and an expensive fear machines. Most Capital ships are used as Command ships or Super Carries not for ships but for soldiers. They are excellent solution to the mass logistic problems of larger militaries. Average Size: Colossal Average Cost / Procure Diff: 3.2 Billion / 5 Dis-Advantages: -5 Attribute Points, -2 Engines, -2 Hard Points, -1 Customization Point (Minimal 1) Advantage: +1 Bays, +2 Sensors, +2 Electronics. Passenger capacity is: 864. These ships have a special Position called Supreme Commander. A command can utilize their leadership bonus to all ships under his other control in that solar system. This cannot double as the ship captain. Choose any one Ship Function to be installed without costing.

Carriers Carriers are the ships that makes a large fleet mobile. It can also provide flexibility in combat as it can deploy an array of different types of ships and drones. Most Carriers are designed to hold and maintain smaller ships. But some are designed for troop deployment to stations and planets. There are also Super Carriers which are Capital class Carriers that are able to hold larger size or simply more ships/people and also doubling as a Command Ship. Average Size: Gargantuan (Huge - Colossal) Average Cost / Procure Diff: 1.2 Billion / 4 Dis-Advantages: -5 Attribute Points, -2 Engines, -4 Hard Points, -1 Bay, -1 Customization Point (Minimal 1) Advantages: +2 Sensors, +2 Electronics, Built in Repair Facility for ships two sizes and smaller. Misc: Can carry, deploy, repair ships two sizes or smaller. If avg. size of Gargantuan then it can hold up two 6 large ships by default without any additional hanger bays. (12 Medium, 24 Small, 96 Tiny, 384 Diminutive, 1,536 Fine). Additional Hanger Bay's or Drone Bays has a +1 ship count that they can add. If more bays are added the ship can start to hold a single ship of only 1 size smaller. This ship has a special Field Commander. A Field Commander can provide his or her leadership bonus to all ships under its care. (Command bonuses do not stack take which one is larger)

Cruisers A smaller light weight version of the Battle Cruiser. However the purpose is the same. They are flexible combat vessels. Common in both Military and police forces and is usually seen as the first response to aggressive outlaws. Considered by police forces as there solution to deal with the more deadly pirates, gangs, and other criminal organizations. The military however sees these as inexpensive portal/recon/scientific/experimental craft. Average Size: Medium Average Cost / Procure Diff: 40 Million / 2 Dis-Advantages: -3 Attribute Points Advantages: +1 Hard Point or +1 Bay (Pick one), +2 Engines or +2 Electronics (Pick One). Pick a Ship Function for this ship to have by default for free. There is also non-military applications for hulls similar to cruisers. Everything from personal transportation of a VIP to a luxury liner. The rich would much rather distance themselves from a fancy customizes barge for there travels. After all anybody can afford one of those. Demilitarized older model cruisers are often sold by militaries to other governments or people as for a verity of different reasons. And sometimes you may find that they are not so de-fanged as they are meant to be. Average Size: Medium Average Cost / Procure Diff: 10 Million / 0 Dis-Advantages: -1 Structure, -1 Hard Point, -2 Attribute Points Advantages: +2 Engines, +2 Sensors. Passenger Bay is of a luxurious fashion and can host higher class peoples and the max number of Passengers is 16.

Drones Drones come in all shapes, sizes and uses. From military to personal hobbyist these machines all have one thing in common. Some sort of A.I. and a connection to a central controller or computer system. The military has a wide range of uses from complementing a ships systems to being part of a Carrier fleet that can send swarms of drones down upon an enemy in coordinated attacks. However many people have drones for personal use. It also helps that drones with self defense A.I. is usually not illegal in most of the Ring and thus many people use them as a way to help deter outlaws. Average Size: Fine (Fine - Small) Average Cost / Procure Diff: 100,000 / 0* Advantage: Can be used without a pilot. Can be programmed to defend or attack selected target. Dis-Advantages: -1 across all Attributes. Misc: Drone AI Module installed. Can be easily controlled by an AI system can can be deployed in masses to attack or defend. Swarm bonuses apply when 4 or more are part of a team. Swarm adds AC advantages against projectile attacks. Drones require a Drone Bay to deploy and control drones. Drones can also be designed to repair, mine, salvage, retrieve.

Destroyers These ships where meant to ask the question: "How much fire power can one medium ship truly have?". They are geared for a single task. A way to help counter smaller swarms of ships. While similar sizes and speeds to a Cruiser these ships are rarely seen used by anybody except the military. They are designed to back a massive bunch for there size. Made on the cheap considering there fire power and have a minimalist crew. Squads of these craft are usually used to compliment attack fleets that target smaller craft. The idea being that the Destroyer will be specifically fitted for smaller craft while still having the armor of a medium sized craft. Average Size: Medium Average Cost / Procure Diff: 38 Million / 3 Dis-Advantages: Illegal to own even though it is a Medium sized craft Procure Diff +1, -3 Attribute Points, -1 Bay, Weapon Hard Point's are geared for 'Small' weapon size. Advantages: +2 Hard Points, All weapons are considered 'Gimbaled' +1 to Targeting for free. These ships do not take penalties for targeting smaller craft.

Dreadnoughts Dreadnoughts have an interesting history. It is believed the precursors to the Dreadnought was a super heavy battle ship designed as a "Station buster". Stations had all the space for enhanced defenses and could take a long time to bring down by a fleet of Battle Ships. So to minimize the amount of forces committed to a single attack a powerful energy cannon was developed. So powerful that the ships of the time had to be gutted to make room to house just a single one of these cannons. However, it was quickly discovered that these weapons also solved another problem. It allowed for a flexible planetary bombardment system. Before ships had to be fitted with weapons and charges specific to the planet and its uniq environment, (Air pressure, density, chemical structure, and weather patterns.) The energy cannon could on the fly tweak these attributes, a feature originally designed to keep shields from changing to better deflect its powerful blast. The terror of seeing massive scale death raining down from Gargantuan floating hulks of metal in the sky put fear into people who named the ships Dreadnoughts. Dreadnoughts have evolved over time to include taking out of other Dreadnoughts as well as Carriers and Capital ships. The more powerful weaponry at the time for taking out these ships was explosive forces from Nuclear or anti-mater which made radial explosions that where nondiscriminatory of who it effected. Dreadnoughts where the first mobile forum of focus weaponry which had the counter intuitive effect of bring these larger scale ships into every day combat. Average Size: Gargantuan (Huge - Colossal) Average Cost / Procure Diff: 3 Billion / 5 Dis-Advantages: -2 Engines, -5 Ability Points, -4 Hard Points, -3 Bays. Advantages: Has a special super gigantic hyper focused energy cannon. This special weapon can target from 100x the distance of a Huge Weapon. And does 24d10 * 10 damage. However it takes (1d4 + 2) - Electric Mod Rounds to re-fire. (Minimal 2) Firing this weapon also generates enormous heat and local radiation. Ships deal with this in different ways but there is no way to cloak or otherwise stealth this ship. Also warping cannot happen until the weapon has cooled down.

Fighters Similar to combat aircraft of the modern world these machines fly through space instead of the atmosphere. Some can do both however. Although they are usually only effective in one or the other. These ships usually only have a single pilot supported by advanced A.I. These craft can carry massive punch when in groups. The general tactic is to swarm ships and use precision targeting or advance electronics to disable and in some cases destroy the bigger target. Using numbers as a defense. Average Size: Fine - Diminutive Average Cost / Procure Diff: 480,000 / 1 Dis-Advantages: -2 Structure, Passenger Cap is 1 Advantages: +2 Engines. Gains the Feint Ship Function for free.

Frigates A common craft in the Ring. This space ship is commonly used as a police craft as well as a VIPs transportation if they are not rich enough to afford a Cruiser. Just like the Cruisers you will find them being sold everywhere. Average Size: Small (Small - Medium) Average Cost / Procure Diff: 4-36 Million / 0-2 Dis-Advantages: -1 to Weapons Advantages: +1 to Sensors. This super common craft is use for just about everything and thus 50% less cost/time spent on repairs. +1 Attribute Point

Freighters When a Barge cannot do the trick Freighters take over. These are the industrial scale cargo transportation ships. Although some have been converted into other things such as massive traveling carnivals. Just like barges these can be converted to transport just about everything. Average Size: Huge Average Cost / Procure Diff: 100 Million / 1 Dis-Advantages: -3 Engines, -2 Attribute Points Advantages: All converted Cargo Bays provide double the space. +2 Bays. 16,000 Units or one size higher. If the ship is a Tech 3 ship then it comes with the Beam Ship Function by default. This ship is a common work vessel and is found across the universe it has a large reduction in cost and repair by 50% as they are massed produced.

Industrial Factory in a can. These ships of varies sizes are the backbone of non planetary or moon based industry. This usually means mining and refining of asteroids but it is not always limited to that. These are must have for new settlers to a solar system that are hopping to there new homes resources to start a new colony or terraform a planet. Average Size: Large (Medium - Huge) Average Cost / Procure Diff: 12 - 108 Million / 0 - 1 Dis-Advantages: -2 Engines, -2 Attribute Points, -3 Bays Advantages: The Ship has a free Industrial Facility and Refinery Facility. If this ship has a Tech 3 Core then it also comes with Beam Ship Function for free. The ship also comes with the Grapple Function for free.

Shuttles Personal transport vehicles. The more versatile the more expensive. The basic kinds can only fairy from station to station. And can only accommodate two passengers. But the more advanced you get the more people it can carry further and further distances to more and more different places. Such as planets, move around as a planet side craft, or even go under oceans. Average Size: Tiny (Diminutive - Small) Average Cost / Procure Diff: 2 Million / 0 Dis-Advantages: -2 Structure, -2 Electronics, -1 Hard Points Advantages: +4 Engines, +2 Sensors, Basic Auto Pilot installed so no need for a Pilot (Auto Pilot A.I +1), +1 Passengers for Diminutive, +2 for Tiny, +3 for Small.

Ship Functions

Ship Functions are special abilities much like Skills for a Character. Some are meant for combat while others for day to day use. Some functions are standard on all ships. While others require a Ship Upgrade to use. The default ship Functions are Ram, Target and Scan. All other ship functions require a Ship Upgrade too use. Ship upgrades and there rules located on the Ship Equipment page.

Ship functions require a Character to be in a specific Ship Function in order to utilize the function.

The full list is as follows: (Click for a full description)

• Beam: (Electronics, Science/Comms Officer): A semi-instant form of transportation where matter is transformed into energy and beamed to a new location where it is converted back to matter.
• Bombard: (Weapons, Weapons Officer): A tactical maneuver where the weapons are given the 'Suppression Fire' ability.
• Boast: (Eng,Wps,Shl,Elc,Sen): An action that increases the output of that certain Ability for the rest of the round or the following one.
• Cloak: (Electronics, Science/Engineer Officer): Cloaking implies some form of stealth technology designed to full Sensor Scans.
• Crypto: (Electronics, Science/Comms Officer): A way to send or receive protected communications. Similar to Decipher Script.
• Feint: (Engines, Helm Officer): An A.I computer supplement for combat techniques. If activated the ship will attempt to make automatic 'corrections' to ship movement to full targeting sensors.
• Grapple: (Engines, Engineer Officer): Different kinds of ways to 'grab' a ship and hold or even move its position.
• Hack: (Electronics, Science/Comms/Engineer Officers): If Cyber Warfare modules where installed this Function can be used to attack and disable one of the 6 Core Systems of a target ship.
• Jam: (Electronics, Science/Comms Officer): Designed to target a specific component of an opponent Sensor array. Either Targeting, scanners or other devices and keep them from functioning.
• Ram: (Engines, Helm Officer): The ability to drive a ship directly into another in such a way to cause the most damage to the opponent ship and the least to itself.
• Scan: (Sensors, Science, Comms Officer): The ability to search for or study a object or objects in space.
• Target: (Sensors, Weapons Officer): The ability to lock onto a specific object and accurately track its position.

The modules that are installed that provide the Ship Function take up either a Bay or a Hard Point except for the 3 default functions, Ram, Scan, Target. These modules have a Class level. That level is 0-5 and provides a bonus when a player preforms a roll. This also increases the price. The default price increase is double the base price for each level.

Space Ship Accessories Slots

Space Ship Accessories are all the extra components that go into the ship after the 6 Core System Attributes and the default Hull/Configuration components have been installed. These are all the item's that require Customization Points and/or Hard Points, Bays. These are Weapons, Bays, Ship Function Modules and other Upgrades. All of these items can be found on the Ship Equipment page.

Thea mount of Customization Points are determined by Ship Tech Level and Hull Size and the amount of Hard Points and Bays are determined by the Hull Size. However Hull Configuration may also effect these stats.

Space Craft Hard Points and Bays

Size	Weapon Size	Customization Point Bonus	Military Ship		Civilian Ship
			Hard Points	Number of Bays	Hard Points	Number of Bays
Colossal	Huge	+2	10	8	8	10
Gargantuan	Large	+2	9	7	7	9
Huge	Large	+2	8	5	6	8
Large	Medium	+1	7	4	5	7
Medium	Medium	+1	6	3	3	6
Small	Small	+1	6	2	2	5
Tiny	Small	+0	5	1	1	4
Diminutive	Small	+0	3	0	1	2
Fine	Small	+0	2	0	1	1

Customization Points

Customization Points are used as a way to provide Ship Upgrades and Modifications. These can act as a Bay or a Hard Point for Upgrades and Modifications that require them. However items that exclusively require a Hard Point or Bay such as Weapons or Ship Bays cannot use Customization Points.

Hard Points

Hard Points are communally referred to as the locations that weapons are deployed. However they can also mount a number of other external devices. Such as a Jamming Array, Grappler, Extended Sensor Array, Target Enhancers, Target Jammers etc... More information on Ship Weapons can be found in the Ship Weapons page. The number of hard points as well as the size of the weapon the hard point can support is shown on the chart too the right.

Bays

Bays are empty spaces within the hull of the ship that can be customized for certain uses. A Bay can be converted into facilities for example: Science Bay or Medical Bay. The facilities add additional services that the ship can provide to its crew.. given that someone has the necessary skills to operate them. Bays are sometimes required for certain upgrades. More information on Ship Bays in the Ship Bays page.

Upgrades & Modifications

Ships can have modifications installed in the form of System Upgrades. Ever statistic of a ship from the 6 Core.System.Attributes to all Secondary Stats can have System Upgrade installed. These can be installed by a Character with the correct Craft skill or simply paid for. A list of System Upgrades can be found on the here.

Space Ship FTL Drive

FTL is short for Faster Then Light. The FTL drive is one of the most important aspects of a ship. Without them conquering or exploring the galaxy would be impossible. However, this aspect of the ship doesn't help much in the terms of combat. The better an FTL drive the faster a ship can get to its destination. They can also make it harder for enemy ships to track or pull your ship out of FTL.

FTLs have a Range rating and a Speed rating. Ranged its based on the distance to the destination and is categorized in four ranges. Small, Medium, Large, Extreme (Because the galaxy is extremely big). Speed is incremented by a Warp factor. Warp 1 through Warp 10. For more information about Range, Warp Factors and the hazards of space travel please review the Transportation rules.

FTLs are rated by Tech Level. You cannot put an FTL of a higher tech level in a ship with a lower tech level Core. Each ship comes standard with a basic FTL for that Tech Level. This should always be the Jump drive.

Table: Faster Then Light Drives

Tech Level 1
Assisted Jump Drive Description: This system allows the ship to work with an external jump gate station to jump the ship to its destination. The Jump sends the ship at Warp 10 speeds up to Medium distances. However this can only work with the assistance of a jump gate. Distance Rating: Medium Warp Factor: 10+ Price: $50,000 / 0 Durability: 0
Warp Drive (The Hopper) Description: This system is the most common form of FTL travel. Most every space fairing civilization has made a variation of the warp drive. The Warp Drive creates a protective energy bubble and then shots a massive amount of positive energy in front of the ship and negative energy out the rear of the ship. These energy blasts stretch space-time by shrinking it in front of the ship and expanding it behind the ship. The ship has to first accelerate to roughly 5% the speed of light as the ship need to move slightly itself while space itself also moves the ship within its bubble. The lower tech level version of the Warp Drive, only capable of speeds of Warp 1 through 4, is called 'The Hopper'. This is because a steady stream of energy is impossible too achieve as the energy would have to be traveling faster then the speed of light to always be at the right position. In order to get around this issue the ship 'hops' from one burst of energy too the next. Distance Rating: Medium Warp Factor: 1-4 Price: $150,000 / 0 Durability: +2
Tech Level 2
Assisted Advanced Jump Drive Description: This is Jump Drive system is similar too its Tech 1 counter part. But now can travel Long and Extreme distances. However it still can only do so with the assistance of a jump gate. Distance Rating: Large Warp Factor: 10+ Price: $100,000 /0 Durability: 0
Warp Drive (The Skimmer) Description: This Warp Drive is the next technological evolution of Warp Drive technology. Similar to its Tech 1 counter part but now with advances in its sub-light propulsion systems and advanced energy distribution systems new speeds can be achieved. This Drive can now go up to Warp 7. This system is called the skimmer because it achieves these speeds by going at near 50% light speed using sub-light engines. This allows it to skim over the nearly shrunken space in front of it eventually leading to that space being considered behind the ship. This space sense it very recently shrunk can be expanded with less energy faster. Thus helping the ship go at faster speeds. Also the warp engine is capable of bursting at a faster frequency. Distance Rating: Large Warp Factor: 1-7 Price: $300,000 / 0 Durability: +1
Slip Stream Drive Description: This uses a new concept of FTL. It makes a small tear in space that a ship can 'slip' into. The ship is protected by a similar 'bubble' of space that is made for a Warp Drive while the pressures felt within this sub-space pushes unevenly on the ship. The pressure is much greater where the tear is. Now the ship rapidly moves away from the tear. In Sub-Space objects are not limited by the Speed of Causality (The Maximum Speed of Light) meaning the ship zooms across a fast amount of space relative too its position in subspace. The ship then produces another tear and bursts its way out into normal space. Both the entering and existing of this tear causes a lot of excess radiation that can be seen for millions of AUs. The top speed of this is Warp 6. The act of making a Tear requires 30 seconds at which time a ship cannot cloak and it's easier to target. Opponents get a moderate +2 bonus. The same goes for after leaving a tear. Tracking where a ship went after entering a Tear is fairly easy. +4 to Scanning when traking a ship after it has entered a Tear. Distance Rating: Large Warp Factor: 1-7 Price: $450,000 / 1 Durability: +3
Tech Level 3
Personal Jump Drive Description: Much like its lower level counter parts. Except now this system can make Warp 10 jumps on its own. As long as its a Small or Medium distance. It only preform a single jump before having to re-fuel. Distance Rating: Medium (With assistance Large) Warp Factor: 10+ Price: $1,000,000 / 0 Durability: 0
Warp Drive (The High Pulse Drive) Description: Capable of speeds up to Warp 8 this is too many the most advanced version of Warp Drive achievable. The High Pulse Drive gets its name because advances in near loss less energy teleportation allow for the constant stream of energy to be placed in the correct positions as the ship travels. Reducing the burst effect to a frequency in the billions. Adjusting Warp speed is extremely smooth and allows for the Drive to 'jump' into high Warp almost instantly and just as quickly 'jump' out. Distance Rating: Large Warp Factor: 1-8 Price: $3,500,000 / 1 Durability: +2
Phase Shift Drive Description: Shifting the ship out of phase with the rest of the Universe this ship can easily accelerate as if it didn't have mass. This would appear to only make a ship goes at the speed of light if it wasn't also for utilizing Slip Stream Drive technology. This allows the ship to enter and exit sub-space with ease and allows for a faster total speed of Warp 7. Just like a Slip Stream drive except it now only takes 6 seconds or two combat turns to make a tear and enter it. The same modifiers still apply and a ship can still not cloak for the 2 turns before entering and after exiting. Distance Rating: Large Warp Factor: 1-7 Price: $5,000,000 / 2 Durability: +6
Tech Level 4
Personal Advanced Jump Drive Description: Much like the Jump drives before it except this can be used to itself at Warp 10 to distances up to Large. Distance Rating: Large (With assistance Extreme) Warp Factor: 10+ Price: $10,000,000 / 1 Durability: 0
Expert Warp Drive Description: The most advanced and complicated Warp device ever designed. The fastest way to travel except through a Worm Hole or Advanced Jump Drive this personal Warp Drive can send a ship up to speeds of Warp 9. Distance Rating: Extreme Warp Factor: 1-9 Price: $15,000,000 / 2 Durability: +3
Advanced Slip Stream Drive Description: This system uses the Jump Drive mechanics combined with Phase Shift technology and Slip Stream Tear technology to make the most stealthy form of Space Travel. Tears in space are made within the ship itself much like a Personal Jump Drive works. The Phase Shift system allows a ship to be one second at a stand still and the next accelerating to near the speed of light only to Jump itself into a tear which is projected within the front part of the ship. Sensors will find it extremely difficult to detect the Jump Into subspace sense the ship is mostly out of phase when its done. The tear is almost completely concealed by the ship. The tear when existing still gives away the ships destination however the ship itself comes back into normal space out of phase and thus stealth by default. A ship can now enter a Tear in just 1 turn. Although the cloak has to be deactivated. It can be reactivated only 1 turn after exiting the tear. Distance Rating: Extreme Warp Factor: 1-8 Price: $25,000,000 / 3 Durability: +8

A ship can have more then 1 FTL. However a secondary FTL always takes up 1 Bay and 1 Hard Point and cannot be installed using a Customization Point.

Ship Quirks

Ship's can have Quirks about them. Similar in nature to a Character difficultly/trait ships can have Quirks/defects that can add more personality uniqueness to ones ship. Any adventurer is going to get some scars and bumps along the way and his ship is no different. Over time a ship may start to gain a personality in the eyes of the crew.

Here are some 'Quirks' or 'defects' that ships can gain over time. They can be 'earned' or given by the GM. Players with the right skills and equipment can over time remove most defects and quirks if they want. Although some can be made permanent if GM wishes it.

Table: Quirks

Out Dated: Description: This ship is old and antiquated. Most people will find that its only worthy of a scrap yard. Or perhaps a museum. The ship is more likely to gain other quirks. A ship with this quirk gets to pick another quirk and ignore its negative. The quirks are permanent. Negative: It costs 25% less to buy and you get 50% less if you attempt to sell it. Positive: Choose another quirk and ignore its negative effect.

Cranky : Description: This ships engines and internal components require some encouraging from time to time. A good bang here or smack there to get it to start functioning correctly. Negative: When getting massive damage or receiving a crit on the ship the there is a 50% chance a component may start to malfunction requiring a crew member to waste a turn finding and banging the part back into shape. Positive: Instead of repairing an item over possibly multi turns a crew member can act even without the appropriate skills to quickly repair a single broken part of the ship once per day by simply hitting it really hard.

Falling Apart : Description: Weather by age or by miss care this ship is falling apart. Sure it runs but for how long? It also looks like it pile of junk. Characters will be constantly on the look out for the next broken component. Negative: 25% reduction of resale value. Every day of travel the ship has a small chance of having something break. There is a 20% chance something will go wrong. A percentile dice roll is used to confirm. 1-10%: Superficial problem. The ship is just a little more bumpy/noisy then normal. 11-20%: A minor problem with the Engines. -1 to the engines until they are repaired. 21-30%: A minor problem with the Weapons. -1 to Weapons until repaired. 31-40%: A minor problem with the Structure. Some noticeable cracks form. Temporary -1 Hit die until repaired 41-50%: A minor problem with the Shields. -1 to Ship Shields. 51-60%: A minor problem with the Electronics. -1 to Electronics. On top of it the lights flicker and sometimes waste management doesn't work! Eks! 61-70%: A minor problem with Sensors. -1 to Sensors. Or sensor blimps show up often with things that are actually not there. GM choice. 71-80%: A random minor problem with one of the bays of the ship. (Get a die equal too the number of bays and roll for which bay, or GM Choice). The Bay is disabled until repaired. 91-100%: Re-roll except its a major problem instead of minor. (If 90-100 simply re-roll until you land on a % that is not.) If the problem is a minor one it requires no materials and 1 work day of no FTL to repair. If the problem is a major one it will require materials to repair if there is no Engineering Bay the ship will require a facility for assistance to get the repair done. Positive: Because of the experience the crew must gain through repairing the darn ship all the time the crew gain the Advanced Jerry Rigging Feat when making repairs to only this ship.

Infested : Description: You do not know how or when and frankly you don't care. You just want these dam pests gone! They are smelling, annoying, and fur gets everywhere. And that's if you are lucky enough not to get the slimy kind of space pests. No matter the type of pests you have they all have one thing in common. They know how to stay alive and most notably THRIVE on board a space ship. They do this by living off the ship systems. Some people swear they live solely off the frustrations and agony of the crew. Negative: You will have a hard time taking on passengers on your ship. All crew and passengers have to roll Constitution saves once a day with a DC12. If they fail they become sick and gain the condition Sickened. The condition has no specifications except that it lasts 1d4 days and can be cured by 1 day of full rest off the ship or if onboard the ship one day of rest an a successful Treat Disease check. Engineers have a -1 to repair checks on the ship. Positive: The likely hood of a stowaway on your ship is nearly nill. And if one does deiced to come on board they have a -10 to stealth. Pests don't like sharing! +2 to Communications(Sensors/Comms Officer Function) when dealing with pirates/smugglers. Not only do must sympathies with your problem they also don't want to even think about docking with your ship. Making stealing your stuff all that much harder.

Bad Past : Description: However owned this ship deserves to be shot right next to the person who sold ship too you. For some reason this ship seams to bring out all the ugly when trekking around space. It seams like whoever owned this before you was wanted in all the systems and not in a good way. If its not pirates then its Tracers or local police or the military. Or some princess who just wants to know when she will see your ship docking in her port again. Take advantage of the situation or try to correct is up too you. Almost assuredly this ships past is gonna get in your way and likely when you least expect it. Negative: -4 to communications(Sensors/Comms Officer Function). The ship is communally known along with its systems. People may attack you without provocation. Positive: Its likely that this ship can open as many doors as it closes. Its a 50/50% chance the person that knows your ship wants to kill you or pretend to be your friend and then maybe kill you later.

Artificial Intelligence : Description: Wait what? I thought that was illegal for space ships to have fully aware AI computer linked too all ship systems. (Especially Weapons) Well that may be one reason why the ship didn't tell you right away it was smarter then you. But now you know. Hopefully it is nice and wont kill you. (Open the bay doors damit!) Nightmares aside you are in a deep pile of crock! If authorities find out they may as well put you in jail. Helping AI is breaking serious rules. One the other note this ship is pretty awesome! I mean wow! You sure hope it doesn't turn on you! *gulp*. Negative: Illegal! You cannot sell this through official markets. If you are caught most civilizations completely outlaw AI with such freedom and power with extremely harsh penalties. (This Negative cannot be ignored using the 'Out Dated' quirk) Positives: +1 to Sensors, Engines, Electronics. The ship can drive itself and pretend to be someone onboard. Oh the possibilities! Misc: The ship has to have a personality. Below are some options. You can roll for these or the GM can choose one. Or a blend Optimist Bully Physio Shy/Unsure Over achiever Whimsical

Noisy : Description: Something somewhere is loose. Maybe as simple as a loose screw or as complicated as a electromagnetic field is off alignment. Either case this ship doesn't stop humming, whizzing, and ever now and then for excitement it jitters. You consistently think that's the last jitter it will make before the whole thing falls apart like a house of cards. But the she still is flying straight. So whatever it is it must not be important. Annoying as hell but not important. Negative: -1 to Communications(Sensors/Comms Officer Function). Positives: None

Battle Scars : Description: Like a painting the hull of your ship speaks a thousand words. It seams like each panel is telling some story of great deeps and glorious conquest. Or at the very least oh my gosh look how close we got to being vaporized! The first option defiantly sounds better in a bar! Negative: -1 HD worth of Hit Points. Positive: +2 Communications(Sensors/Comms Officer Function), +4 to Communications when using the Intimidate skill.

Lucky : Description: You don't quite know how and thinking about it is likely a waste of time. But you guys always seam to get through some of the craziest scraps! Maybe this ship is just good luck! Negative: None Positive: One per day a player can re-roll a check that uses one of the ships Attribute modifiers.

Cursed : Description: You don't know why... and damit you wish you did but ever sense you been on this ship things just suck! Negative: Once per day negate the first Crit that is rolled when rolling for something that uses the ships Attribute modifiers. Positive: None

Ship Positions

There are 2 main positions that can directly effect a ship. Small size or smaller ships can combine these positions without taking penalties. However larger ships require the positions to be filled by a dedicated person or take disadvantage per extra position a single Character is fulfilling. To learn more about how ship positions effect combat read the Ship Combat section of the Combat page.

The 2 main positions are:

• Helm: (Engines) Supplies the Pilot bonus
• Weapons: (Weapons) Supplies a bonus to accuracy checks and rolls for damage.

There are also 5 other positions that are note worthy.

• The Captain can use the Leadership feat to provide bonuses to the people in different positions on the ship.
• The Communications (Sensors) officer supplies that characters CHA mod as a bonus to communications and to jamming or counter jamming.
• The Engineer (Structure) does not effect the stats of the ship. However they can help to repair the ship even while in combat if the ship has an Engineer station or facility. A ship can also provide information and tools at the ready for an Engineer to help repair the ship giving the Engineer bonuses to repair.
• The Science (Electronics) officer can be anyone that wants to preform science related skills on the ship using a ship provided science station or facility. Not all ships come with a Science station or facility. They are upgrades that can be installed. A person using this station can gain bonuses.
• The Medical officer just like the Science officer requires a Medical facility. Anyone using the Medical facility with the necessary skills can gain bonuses.

More positions can be made up by the GM for the purpose to storytelling and game play. As long as those roles are clear and the Players are aware of them before gaming.

Space Stations

Space Station's are defined as any artificial construct in space that has no Faster Then Light drive and whose priority is not movement and thus its sub-light engines are designed more for keeping the object in orbit, stationary or emergency movement. It doesn't have to support life to be a station as it can have other purposes. Anything above 1,024,000 Square Feet cannot have an FTL without special exceptions and thus are by default considered Space Stations. Any Station that is ~1,024,000 Sq FT or larger are broken up into parts. Each part having the minimum Hit Points of a Colossal Hull Size craft.

To determine other stats such as number of people the Station could support, or Hard Points and Bays follow the pattern laid out by the Hull Size for Ships. The number of Hard Points is the same but the number of Bays is +1. Also Stations do not have to all have Huge Weapons mounts. Instead it can mount different sized weapons in order to defend against different size ships. A Huge Hard Point can hold 2 Large Weapons, 3 Medium Weapons, 4 Small Weapons. If the Station is ~1,024,000 Sq FT or larger not all of its Weapons can target a craft at a time only 1/2.

To determine how many lives can be supported on a Station. Take its size and compare it to the amount of people on a similar Hull Size and add a zero. This is because the FTL, sub light Engines and all the supporting systems take up a large amount of space. Also this assumes that at least halve the spare Bays are for personnel. If the Station is larger then any examples in the follow the pattern to estimate the possible number of people.

Ship Crafting

Ships are considered Structures. They require the following crafting skills: Electrical, Mechanical, Structural

Building a ship requires a Ship Yard. Making repairs to a ship can be done without being in a shipyard but the ship cannot be in FTL and it takes twice as long as it would normally take in a ship yard. A Docking Bay can also be used to repair a ship if the ship/station that has the Docking Bay also has a Industrial or Engineering bay.

The materials costs are based on the finishing price of the ship not including any customizations or accessories unless you are also building those.

The time is based on the size of the ship.

• Colossal: 36450 Days - Requires Super Heavy Ship Yard
• Gargantuan: 12150 Days - Requires Super Heavy Ship Yard
• Huge: 4050 Days - Requires Heavy Ship Yard
• Large: 1350 Days - Requires Heavy Ship Yard
• Medium: 450 Days
• Small: 150 Days
• Tiny: 50 Days
• Diminutive: 20 Days
• Fine: 10 Days

Skilled laborers can be contracted to divide up the work. A Ship Yard can have as much as 50 people working on the same ship. Heavy 500 people. And Super Heavy 5,000 people. Cost may very based on the GM. But default suggestion would be $10,000 a day + completion bonus of 1/1000th the cost of the ship.

Other players can also help in the building of a ship. The same rules associated with building a structure apply. To review the rules go here. Repair work can also be divided up.

Building a Weapon or other hard point accessory is also considered like building a structure. With the except of Diminutive and Fine as they are normal sized weapon rules and thus the same rules for crafting. Making a hard point requires either a ship yard or a Engineering facility. The default time for crafting a non-weapon hard point accessory is 20 days. Weapon crafting times are based on there weapon sizes just like ships.

• Gigantic: 80 Days - Requires a Heavy Ship Yard or Large Engineering facility.
• Large: 40 Days - Requires a Heavy Ship Yard or Large Engineering facility.
• Medium: 20 Days
• Small: 10 Days

Building a Bay requires 20 days for normal size bays and 40 days for Large sized bays. They can be built in any facility designed to handle the construction of a structure. They can be built directly into the ship or be built in pieces and then shipped and assembled inside of the ship. It takes two days to assemble a normal bay or 4 days to assemble a large bay. You cannot speed up the assemble process by dividing up work. Only the crafting of the item can other characters assist. You do not need to account for assembling a bay if it is directly built into the ship.

Building an upgrade or other accessory is completely dependent on the item itself. However installing it from a time perspective is like repairing the ship of a major problem. Which is a full day while not being in FTL. Some upgrades may require that the ship be in a ship yard or a facility that supports repairs.

Crafting Ship Functions

It requires a crafting skill of 3 in the correct craft skill. The craft skill is determined by which of the 6 Core System Attributes the Function is associated with. Engines and Weapons is associated with Craft Mechanics. Structure is associated with Craft Structure. Shields, Electronics, Sensors is associated with Craft Electronics. In order to craft a Function with Class 1 the crafter must have 4 ranks in the appropriate skill. For Class 2 the crafter must have 5 ranks and so on.

Only Upgrades for the 6 C.S.A have both Class and Grade. To learn more about upgrades visit the Ship Upgrades section of the Ship Equipment page.

Crafting FTL Drives

FTL drives are considered one of the most complicated pieces of equipment ever invited. It requires at least 3 ranks in the following 3 crafting skills. Craft Mechanical, Electronics, Structure. Making a FTL follows the Craft Structure rules and thus requires a facility. To learn more about crafting go here. There is no mastercrafted FTLs.

Master Work Spaceships

A ship can be Masterworked. This is represented by an additional point toward the 6 Core System Attributes for each Crafting skill a character has the required rank in. To make Master Work structures a Character must have a rank of 5 or higher in the appropriate skill. There are 3 crafting skills that effect ship building and those again are Electrical, Mechanical, Structural. That means there is a total of +3 points that can go toward a ship.

A ship cannot be upgraded with Masterworked parts. A ship can only be constructed as such. Each extra point awarded to the ship ups the price by an additional 1/4th the base price.