OK, I've been playing around with an FTL idea that is, I believe, rather unique and I want to bounce the idea off the forums head before for usability before I go using it ton plan a campaign, and some parts I could do with some advice on.
First this a hyperspace-based setup, but hyperspace isn't somewhere where matter is allowed to exist normally (I thinking along the lines of the conservation of energy, which offers some very interesting options at a level beyond that which GURPS Spaceships offers), so you not only need to enter hyperspace somehow, you need someway to stay there as well. And the two aren't the same thing.
So, the way I thinking, you need a hyperdrive to 'weaken' part of the local space/time so that a ship can 'dive' through a 'window' into hyperspace, once there you need some kind of shields to keep you there. The important bit is that the ship doesn't need to actually mount the hyperdrive doing to work, it could be generated by another, bigger ship (Think PT boats escorting something) or a stationary gate, but the ship does need to mount the special shields.
Currently I thinking that the maximum speed (Assuming a ships has the shields to handle it) is equal to 5^X where X is the FTL rating, and you can't use multiple drives to boost the number. Note that this is a speed multiplier. Now I figure that any ship that mounts a FTL drive gets enough shields to handle it's FTL speed for free, it's part of the cost of the drive. A ship that doesn't mount FTL can pay a construction premium to mount the needed shields. (This is, I think, a very good thing for someone using the Spaceships series, many of the ships in that lack a Stardrive and this is a good way around having to design extra ships).
Now my minimum thought for the campaign is that FTL-1 and FTL-2 drives are available to spaceships, and portal stations mount FTL-3 gear, enabling a FTL-2 equipped to save a good deal of travel time, if of, course it pays the transit fee. Not all planets/systems have a protal but.
First this a hyperspace-based setup, but hyperspace isn't somewhere where matter is allowed to exist normally (I thinking along the lines of the conservation of energy, which offers some very interesting options at a level beyond that which GURPS Spaceships offers), so you not only need to enter hyperspace somehow, you need someway to stay there as well. And the two aren't the same thing.
So, the way I thinking, you need a hyperdrive to 'weaken' part of the local space/time so that a ship can 'dive' through a 'window' into hyperspace, once there you need some kind of shields to keep you there. The important bit is that the ship doesn't need to actually mount the hyperdrive doing to work, it could be generated by another, bigger ship (Think PT boats escorting something) or a stationary gate, but the ship does need to mount the special shields.
Currently I thinking that the maximum speed (Assuming a ships has the shields to handle it) is equal to 5^X where X is the FTL rating, and you can't use multiple drives to boost the number. Note that this is a speed multiplier. Now I figure that any ship that mounts a FTL drive gets enough shields to handle it's FTL speed for free, it's part of the cost of the drive. A ship that doesn't mount FTL can pay a construction premium to mount the needed shields. (This is, I think, a very good thing for someone using the Spaceships series, many of the ships in that lack a Stardrive and this is a good way around having to design extra ships).
Now my minimum thought for the campaign is that FTL-1 and FTL-2 drives are available to spaceships, and portal stations mount FTL-3 gear, enabling a FTL-2 equipped to save a good deal of travel time, if of, course it pays the transit fee. Not all planets/systems have a protal but.
[Space] FTL Ideas/Thoughts
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