REALISTIC SPACE TRAVEL

Contents

• Hazards Of Space Travel - Space travel is nowhere near as easy as books and movies make it seem.
• Collision Damage - When a meteoroid collides with a starship, space station, or other object,...
• Computer Use Check Dc - A starship or space station equipped with a sensor system can detect an...
• Defense - The meteoroid's Defense.
• Hardness - The meteoroid's hardness.
• Hit Points - The meteoroid's total hit points.
• Meteoroid Size - The size of the meteoroid.
• Meteoroids - Meteoroids are small rocks that travel through space at a speed of 7 miles per second.
• Pilot Check Dc - Avoiding a meteoroid requires a successful Pilot check.
• Radiation - Ionizing radiation is common in space. For the effects, see Radiation Sickness in the Environments section.
• Table: Meteoroid Encounters
• Vacuum Exposure - Beings exposed to the airless cold of space are not immediately doomed.
• Interplanetary Travel - In Progress Level 5, humanity has the technology to send unmanned probes to the edge of the solar system.
• Interstellar Travel - Realistically, the starships presented in the Starships section are capable...
• Jump Gate Technology - If a starship cannot reach the speed of light through sheer thrust, perhaps...
• Jump Holes - In theory, a collapsing wormhole in a strong enough gravitational field...
• Jump Drive (Pl 9) - The jump drive is a portable version of a jump gate.
• Jump Gate (Pl 7) - Jump gates consist of gigantic rings in space that use fusion reactors...
• Jump Network (Pl 8) - As science develops ways to harness the power of singularities, astrophysicists apply the technology to wormholes.
• Purchase Dc - 75 (per jump gate).
• Restriction - Licensed (+1).
• Table: Jump Drive Recharge Time
• Realistic Travel Times - Table: Realistic Travel Times provides various "realistic" interplanetary and interstellar travel times.
• Table: Realistic Travel Times
• Reentry - Anything that travels too fast in an atmosphere generates an enormous amount of friction, which produces tremendous heat.
• Time Dilation - When a ship approaches to within 90% of the speed of light, time slows down.
• % Speed Of Light - The percentage of the speed of light (186,000 miles per second).
• Au Per Hour - How many Astronomical Units (AU) a vessel traveling at this speed can cross in 1 hour.
• Starship Speed - The vessel's speed in miles per second.
• Table: Time Dilation