Vehicle Crews and starship Speeds
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q1: 1, 0 if remote controlled or automated.
q2: Subsonic in a Type 7 atmosphere (1000kmph). Rating of drive is unimportant. Same speed for all. This is a bit abstracted, if it is important to your game you will need to houserule it.
q1 discussion:
Rules of thumb are probably the best way to go for number of crew needed. Crew is not linear on size (regardless of what the starship rules say) but it is linear on functions. A single purpose craft (such as an agregate truck) will only require a single crewman. A multipurpose craft will require crew for each purpose, as well as coordination and spare crew.
A large pleasure sub would only require a handful of crew (navigation, maintenance, captain). A SSBM of the same size requires about 150. This is highly dependent on maintenance level required, as well as level of automation.
q2: Subsonic in a Type 7 atmosphere (1000kmph). Rating of drive is unimportant. Same speed for all. This is a bit abstracted, if it is important to your game you will need to houserule it.
q1 discussion:
Rules of thumb are probably the best way to go for number of crew needed. Crew is not linear on size (regardless of what the starship rules say) but it is linear on functions. A single purpose craft (such as an agregate truck) will only require a single crewman. A multipurpose craft will require crew for each purpose, as well as coordination and spare crew.
A large pleasure sub would only require a handful of crew (navigation, maintenance, captain). A SSBM of the same size requires about 150. This is highly dependent on maintenance level required, as well as level of automation.
archhealer
SOC-12
There's a few things to consider here. In terms of size, well, one person can theoretically drive damn near anything. Esp. Modern/High tech vehicles.
Now, older vessels with old-style steam plants might be a different story, it may take one or more people just to keep the power plant up and running, let alone driving.
Also, figure out what'll need to be done whiel the vehicle is in use. It's handy to have devoted gunners, comms. ops and sensor ops on a battle vehicle, since that leaves the driver to do what he does best. Calling out quick instructions to the guy in the next seat is a free action; shooting, driving meneuvers, getting a sensor lock, and jamming communications are not.
Now, older vessels with old-style steam plants might be a different story, it may take one or more people just to keep the power plant up and running, let alone driving.
Also, figure out what'll need to be done whiel the vehicle is in use. It's handy to have devoted gunners, comms. ops and sensor ops on a battle vehicle, since that leaves the driver to do what he does best. Calling out quick instructions to the guy in the next seat is a free action; shooting, driving meneuvers, getting a sensor lock, and jamming communications are not.
archhealer
SOC-12
In the THB It does list the atmospheric speeds of various rated meneuver drives. I don't recall the page #, and knowing the THB it won't be in the most logical place (The drive section of the design sequence), but it's in there.
Archhealer, for once it is very logical. P261 has the table for airframe speeds. On the same page there is a discussion about streamlined/partially streamlined where they can go and the limits involved.
From re-reading it I am tempted to just use the 2G (max for streamlined) and 1G (max for partial streamlined) lines of that table.
The comment about the speed of sound in a type 7 atmosphere comes from the vehicle design rules rather then the starship design rules. My bad
From re-reading it I am tempted to just use the 2G (max for streamlined) and 1G (max for partial streamlined) lines of that table.
The comment about the speed of sound in a type 7 atmosphere comes from the vehicle design rules rather then the starship design rules. My bad
far-trader
SOC-14 10K
I don't think that cuts it veltyen
The logic aside as debatable it isn't supported by the examples in the Standard Designs section. Even after the errata which didn't fix that part of the designs.
I asked the same question quite some time back but didn't get an answer. The best I've been able to do is use the examples in the Standard Design section. Cobbled together as a table despite some glaring inconsistancies:
</font><blockquote>code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">Fully Streamlined Atmospheric Speeds:
Maneuver Maximum Cruising Nap-o-t-Earth
1G 375kph 200kph 275kph
2G 1100kph 825kph 275kph
Partially Streamlined Atmospheric Speeds:
Maneuver Maximum Cruising Nap-o-t-Earth
1G 300kph 200kph 75kph</pre>[/QUOTE]
The logic aside as debatable it isn't supported by the examples in the Standard Designs section. Even after the errata which didn't fix that part of the designs.
I asked the same question quite some time back but didn't get an answer. The best I've been able to do is use the examples in the Standard Design section. Cobbled together as a table despite some glaring inconsistancies:
</font><blockquote>code:</font><hr /><pre style="font-size:x-small; font-family: monospace;">Fully Streamlined Atmospheric Speeds:
Maneuver Maximum Cruising Nap-o-t-Earth
1G 375kph 200kph 275kph
2G 1100kph 825kph 275kph
Partially Streamlined Atmospheric Speeds:
Maneuver Maximum Cruising Nap-o-t-Earth
1G 300kph 200kph 75kph</pre>[/QUOTE]
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