Exactly what a particular system plugged into a slot gives you depends totally on the size of the vessel. Ships are rated by size, ranging from Size Modifier +5 (30 tons) to +15 (3 million tons). I went with the GURPS Spaceships ruleset which is an abstract design system that divides a ship up into twenty slots and various systems are then plugged in – fuel, engines, crew accommodations and so forth. This is my entry in the reddit competition to design a 100Dton Scout ship – any design rules. Gurps-space-4e-the-expanse-hyena-road-usv I figure that the ship has water tanks for reactions mass, and a shielded ‘fuel tank’ to hold some sort of nuclear fuel/reactors.Īttached it the GURPS: Spaceships template I used to sketch out the major components of the ship. In The Expanse ships are plot devices so I didn’t bother too much on the details. I used GURPS Spaceships to give me an idea of size and components, but as far as the amount of fuel carried and performance – I just winged it. This deckplan is of a small dual purpose passenger and cargo vessel. Ships are effectively buildings with the floor being ‘down’.
When asked how it worked, the authors responded “very efficiently”. It is hard scifi with one major woo-woo which is the Epstein Drive – a sort of super efficient fusion drive that allows constant acceleration (which give a simulated gravity on board ships). The series had it’s genesis in a RPG game that I think had it’s origins in a game loosely based on GURPS: Transhuman Space.
Corey, the pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) then I suggest you find it online and see it forthwith. If you have not already seen the TV adaptation of The Expanse series (by James S.
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