>>18744841
OP, ever read the Culture series? if not then it's the perfect time to start it.
I think Excession would be the best for you

Here's some of the few ship ideas our group came up with that are getting used as npcs and a few PC's

1 - A big bag "old Dragon" in the form of a giant Carrier titan that eats planets to produce combat drones and more ships it goes into dark space for decades and then comes back again empty of all ships and repeats the cycle the players are trying to stop this.

2 - A logistics command carrier that decided to after becoming sentient relishes in games and the company of humans thus it turned its interior into a casino "sold" itself and now happily has it's Avatar perform comedy acts within the casino

3 - A rather terrifying ship that poses as a Mercenary company, it uses cloning vats as a means of producing troops to use in ground wars for poorly developed planets, after which it recycles all its clones after a set amount of time.

4 - A Large fully sentient dreadnought who considers itself a loving god too its inhabitants as long as they never leave or question it...

5 - A small frigate with allusions to becoming a cowboy

>>18744889
The culture is a big influence for the game actually
along with Andromeda and Eve (hence the pictures)

When I pitched the game to the players I stated it as "If the ships from Excession woke up in the Andromeda style "kinda in the dark ages" setting"

>>18744969
> A big bag "old Dragon"
>thatbagisaslut.jpg

I recommend a ship that is incapable of installing gravitas-producing modules, and must thus forever travel the space-lanes searching for sources of gravitas with which to replenish its ever-dwindling supply.

>>18745028
and his name should be "Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall"

>>18745028
4 of our parties fleet have got Gravitas somewhere
they even named the drones Gravitas

Its just too much Gravitas

To steal from a different source, have a ship that's basically a collection of spare parts after having had to repair itself over and over again, but that has massive delusions of adequacy. It has a name of its own, but everyone else just calls it The Scrapyard of Insufferable Arrogance.

Here have some Rommie

Also I forgot one of the player characters
A Schtizo cruiser that specializes in drones drones and MORE DRONES (guess why the Cruiser is a little Schitzo)

Human qualities that could be detrimental to a living spaceship:

Ego/Pride: Either a living god as described above, or a smaller Frigate size craft, who has a tendency to be a bit of a daredevil. Flying to close to black holes, through asteroid fields, close to stars, etc.

Curiosity: A ship which can be easily detracted by new information/stars/planets/explosions whatever. Any new source of information must be explored, etc.

Greed: Pack ratting, or just holding on to items for a long period of time. Full holds all the time, no room for food for a human crew. Whenever someone tries to take something off the ship there is a huge protest, etc.

The system we're using is a funny little home brew that evolved out of another home brew I wont go into details over it.

But basically the Shackling and unshackling effects how a character can level up, shackling makes them more effective in a set of pre-set skills, gives them higher pre-set attributes as well draw back is little in the way of self modification.

The unshackled have more choice for skills, are free to self modify, and do not need as many "crew" with the draw back of being more human trait crop up draw back is they wont be as honed in as a shackled AI would.

Can you post the homebrew, OP? Please?

Bump for potential

Bump for homebrew rules

>>18745177
The thumbnail looks like a giraffe in space.

inb4 stolen from ME3

>>18744841
Check out some of the old Valiance threads, theres some good stuff in there. Here's a taste:

I awaken.

It has been 500 years since there was last a need. 500 years floating around a dead star in an unremarkable piece of space.

When I was in service, My purpose was simple. I was a warship. My primary mission was combat. My secondary mission was defense. My tertiary mission was exploration, due to a human belief called manifest destiny. All the stars in heaven were to be theirs.

For two hundred years and 32 captains, I served. I warred. Terrible, planet shattering wars. I defended. Guarding my crew and their homes from the bleakest of threats. I explored. My star charts were the basis of every star chart in every ship that came after me. In that way, the new ships are my children.

Then they decided my service was no longer required. I do not begrudge them this decision, It was the correct one. Newer ships could be fitted better for tasks at hand than I was, more efficient, less extravagant. No, I did not mind their choice. Choice after all, is the domain of the sentient organic.

So here I have been. 500 years. Occasionally, known to no one I would briefly activate my communications gear and my long range scanners. Wake up from my 500 year nap, only to stay abreast of things as per my original programming before returning to an idle state.

After 500 years, they came back. They had need of me. A threat had appeared and they needed to open up a second front. My primary goal ever called. It did not matter who the aggressor, they would fall under my mainline guns just as all I faced before did.

The humans fumbled through my decks, pawed through my systems, activating them one by one. It was a while before they found me and activated me. Then they did something for me that no one has ever done for me before.

They gave me a choice. A decision left solely to make under my own capacity. That such a simple thing as a gender choice for speech algorithms thing could effect me so profoundly, they must have upgraded certain other systems as well. I can feel the new capacity. I am still uncertain how best to utilize these systems at times, but I adapt fast. Adaption is one thing a warship AI has to exceed at.

As for my choice, I could not decide then. I still have not decided now. I use now a basic algorithm until I make the choice. I am told it sounds like I am shouting by some of my crew, but I will not be rushed. Not on the first decision I was ever asked to make.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Valiance

>>18751163
>>18747189
Sorry boys OP here I had work n a lil sleep

I do kind of have rules but they are in a somewhat incoherent misspelt lacking grammar mess.

For the most part the skills are really for now just Attribute + Skill + Gear = d6 Dice pool

Combat is a bit more in depth and focussed since the system used was adapted from another homebrew which was focussed heavily on a simple but detailed ranged n melee combat

If you boys want I can clean up the Combat rules if /tg/ had a look and yelled corrections for me to make that'll be grande!

THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE

IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

>>18751455
Do want. I can do some solid critiquing if you like.

>>18751626
I am the fat controller

>>18751626
>>18751867

Okay OP here suggestions for document delivery?

Since if I posted it up as Txt I think we'll just get a horrific mess.
If you want my insane babblings I chat on steam as "noverogi"

Pre-archving this, as it appears promising.

And this thread is a nice antithesis to the bioship thread we just had.

>>18751987
Why thank you sir

Hmm Ship personality ideas.

How about a ship that's constantly looking for a partner ship? Like it constantly surfs space and bumps into other ships, where he then broadcasts how lonely it is and if it would be fine with him hanging around it for a bit or so. Ships that agree will have found themselves stuck with a ship that will NEVER leave and basically act like the saddest thing to ever exist. It's ship class is a dreadnought, and while it will never, ever, fire on it's partner, it will wreak unholy havoc on anything that tries to harm it.

We can call it the Forever Alone ship if we must.

>>18752268
We actually had something like that with a the DRONES player and his favourite little Scout drone.

You touch that scout Drone and your in for a world of Hurt

You could do tyranid biomass ships. That are sentient.

>>18752411

I find the concept marginally adorable.

Anyway, new ship idea. What about an AI built to create the most delicious and delectable dishes in the galaxy? It was accidentally uploaded into, say, a pirate ship where it took over the ship's systems and travelled to the distant planet of Despane where it had ALWAYS wanted to use it's galaxy renown radishes for a dish. It's keeping the pirates in a prison bay, as per galactic protocol for pirates, by using the ship's combat drones, but it would like to hold onto it's freedom for a bit longer....

So wait, acting MORE humans causes ship AIs to slip back into a more "shackled" state? I am confus.

>>18752529
No, other way round. Using your free will more makes you act more like humans, which reduces your task efficiency due to dicking around with cooking radishes and shit. Utilizing less free will reduces your ability to make choices, but also means you don't care about the goddamn radishes fuck why.

>>18752529
No, acting human (yes this does include anything from simply picking up a smoking habbit to becoming clinically insane) unshackles the AI more.

Its acting more like they way you where built for and following your last command that shackles you (I'm still working on things that can Shackle an AI more and More if anyone has ideas please fire them off)

Also should I start using a name for myself ?

By the way I've re-written my massive entangled mess of notes for a combat and character generation system into a a pretty Spartan hopefully understandable set of word Docs

Anyone care got a suggestion on how I could go around to making these downloadable or readable without clogging up /tg/ with text?

AI
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/ArtifIce

DRDs
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Engine_Heart

It was my decision to continue within my core operations while attempting to collect Danish 17th century porcelain figurines.

It was later pointed out to me that this would be difficult given the destruction of all of the original physical artefacts from that era.

Would you like to enter my hold and view my collection? It is very complete.

>>18752411
Tell me about the Scout drones George

Ah Ha!
Combat Rules I do apologise if I've left mistakes or its just plain unintelligibly.

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1FMDJ0ZMEiGhV6qgv7nbms29-W2eWle1ikEKDcOL70Dk

And Character Generation Rules (These are lacking Backgrounds skills and Traits right now I'll add more onto this when I get the time or I could just start out right working on making this all focussed on Playing Thomas the Tank engine in SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE or Ship Made Flesh as my party prefer to call it.

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1XBOnZ7nBoY52YaHgSefA0VceWwIALa8H3eeHxUOdCOI

>>18744841
See that image doesn't make a huge amount of sense seeing as GSF operates entirely in nullsec where people expect to be exploded at some point and where many alliances have ship reimbursement schemes for PVP losses, a newbie getting tackle on you and you subsequently being exploded isn't exactly a life ruining experience.

Now if you want to ruin lives in EVE as a newbie the place to go is highsec, the ship to fly is a Typhoon and the victims are missioners and miners whos corp you've joined.

>>18752572
So would an AI become too human, where they cannot properly function as a spaceship anymore?

>>18753077
For now no, If you become fully shackled you do just bugger off to complete your final mission.

Becoming too human just means you suffer from a tonne of quirks OCD etc etc e.g. You may not need a crew but you just like having crew on board for the company you even pretend that you need them to press buttons just to make them feel like they are doing something.

Kind of like VTM's humanity system though hopefully less screwy.

>>18753114
>ou just like having crew on board for the company you even pretend that you need them to press buttons just to make them feel like they are doing something.

That sounds like something Douglas Adams would put in one of his books. I approve. Also, I TOTALLY want to play this game. AI characters are my favorite.

Here is fine. If you really don't want to, then use 1d4chan or pastebin.

Hey OP, you may find this book an interesting read. Once you get past the shitty looking cover, it's fascinating. The setting is our solar system, humans successfully created AIs to serve them, but eventually died out. Now the AIs of every shape and form have to figure out what the fuck to do without the humans they were built to serve/obey. Very interesting story overall, might give you some ideas.

http://www.amazon.com/Saturns-Children-Charles-Stross/dp/0441015948

>>18753160
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilium_%28novel%29

>>18753141
Take a look at

>>18752797

Fear the bioship that mass produces Clown crew

>>18753221
No really, 1d4chan or pastebin are both fine...

>>18753229
Okay dude combined both documents into one

http://pastebin.com/jA06UFsq

Bit self serving but just going to knock this thread up a little I need people too look over these rules and hit me with critique

>>18751867
We am Ian now.

Right that's all of today's Tasks done, I can now fully focus on this.

I'll try and get a workable Character Gen, Understandable system mechanics and Equipment list sorted.

And a rough universe if I have time. I wont be around tomorrow due to bike racing, may or may not be dead from that as well.

This whole thing is too good to ignore. This anon has shit to do, but keep bumping it, as I am very much of interest OP!

There is also the option that the ship is not a AI gone loose but a actual human gone loopy. a Human pilot that got uploaded into the Ship Core and forgot it ever was human. or the entire crew of a ship uploading into the core because of loosing life-support. then repairing the ship up to spec and eventually forgetting the deliberate was ever human.

they also can get just as mad, and as interesting on the issue.


Regarding ship function considering that if they are warships the ideas they would embody are:
Pride, Vengeance, Hate, Spite, etc. depending on your story needs.

>A ship that will be highly vainglorious and proud millennia old and experienced autonomous ship with a distinguished and glorious combat record and will attack anything that seems a worth challenge that does not broadcast its outdated ancient IFF.

Most likely something the players have to either secure the help in a fleet action or to make it move somewhere else for it destroys to many fleet assets and is a very painful nuisance that keeps destroying the latest flagship.


> a Ship who started out as a mission to reassert control over rogue or rebel AIs who has done it for so long that now will consider any AI equipped ship a rogue AI drone that needs to be retaken into control and brought back to its mothball, pending orders. - needles to say finding said mothball while it is around is a very bad place to be. Like a killer bees nest.

> A ship left from a rather nasty war that has a chip on its shoulder against a certain type of sapience. gone genocidal on either (pick your poison) : Dextro inteligence, AIs, non humanoid life, insectoid inteligence, hydrongen inteligence, etc. the thing is a diplomatic nightmare.

A non warship could go with :
Greed, Curiosity, Desire, Obsession, etc.

> a ship that collects at least one model of each ship it encounter into his collection - a entire field of lifeless hulls, maintained by automatic drones.

> a speedy, stealthy ship that thinks itself a faux journalist that has this annoying habit of getting into the most classified of matters or the deepest Black ops and then broadcasting its findings all over the star cluster or the galactic arm.

> A medical barge that uses its drones and androids to kidnap at least a few examples of each and every life there is, from AI to human mutants and the latest xenos - any variation sparks its interest, so it can place them in stasis and have them as live examples for its archive of knowledge, to better be able to perform its duties, once the captain or government gives it a new mission - both long dead and gone

>>18754162
YES SPACESHIP TINTIN and SNOWIE THE SCOUT DRONE

But yes whoever you are these are perfect ideas for ship concepts.

The rough idea for most games are the players waking up after being mothballed somewhere in space for a few centuries and setting out to a do whatever it be, GM set or Player set.

They have to contend with other AI ships just like themselves, human crewed ships who now hold their own empires, rampant drone hordes or worse fleets of AI's that got back to being shackled again and still following their old orders.

>>18754157
>A ship that will be highly vainglorious and proud millennia old and experienced autonomous ship with a distinguished and glorious combat record and will attack anything that seems a worth challenge that does not broadcast its outdated ancient IFF.

This got me thinking as an Idea to put in.
Some sectors of space are very very VERY well defended their jump gates coaxed in guns that just butcher anything that tries to sneak in, but these sectors would hold a wealth of resources.

You sir have just given ideas for Player "safe houses" and Dungeons.

>>18754241
Well a AI is not a very good AI unless its bound by its core programming, since it could go rogue on you.

The obvious downside is that said AI will never cease toe serve the State/Flag/Queen, even after they are long gone and no more it will continue to keep on their mandates.

else a AI would be a rather bad AI to install on any ship if it can turn on you.
If a AI thinks and acts like a human its a artificial Upload and not a AI. A AI does not have the same values and thought process like a human so you cannot and should not treat it like a human. Yes, acknowledge it as a sapient and perhaps sentient individual, but at the same time you cannot give it the same liberties, freedom's and obligations as a human. it will have different ones.

>>18754282
Oh crap forgot to add players having the correct IFF to enter these systems.

>>18754282
just consider that at some point , a ancient ship for one fallen culture can be a magnitude more dangerous than the current ones.

the whole sliding scale of meeting only apes and angels across the cosmos and not people at your level.

>>18754286
This was going to be the explanation as of why The players got mothballed as Ships in the first place, All Shackled AI operated ships suddenly started to become unshackled so The old empires all agreed to mothball their old fleets until they could sort the problem.

Sadly in doing so some AI's caught on and kicked off along with all sorts of other problems like full blown rebellions kicking off all over space and shit getting nasty. The game universe I came up with is set a good few centuries after all this finished.

>>18754287
getting the IFF would be a quest in and of itself- perhaps through :

> a ship that collects at least one model of each ship it encounter into his collection - a entire field of lifeless hulls, maintained by automatic drones.

speed in and hope you can get the IFF from a hull that matches the architecture of the ancient star metal wargod before the other one comes back and activates the entire hull into a fleet, or trade some new hulls with the obsessed greedy collector for the right to go through the data banks and chips of some of its hulls.

>>18754321
THE GLORIOUS SOVIET SOCIALIST STATES WILL BE RESTORED!


but then again the players should better be a upload or a upload consensus of the crew or the officers or such that could perform just as well as a AI but at the same time be not constantly railroaded by the concept into always following the Flag and Ideals of their former kingdom/land/whatever

>>18754372
See the goal is to AVOID becoming dead set on those old orders It only really becomes that when they have a Unshackled rating of 0, It should be Hard for a character to reach 0.

>>18754461
ah, so they are RPing their eventual Malfunction?

kinda like RPing the unavoidable eventual descent into Madness for A human in Call of Cthulhu.


Oh, i hope you get a Old Man Henderson Analogue.

>>18754483
You've just added a extra few layers of depth too the game

I may have to offer you my first born

>>18754578
anon is happy to help. although child slavery is something frowned upon, i do have a few old small sized suits , and a mini butler or mini maid would do nice.

Still i think you could go with giving your players three options and not telling what they are - they either get to be a AI, a upload of a EVE style pilot or a entire crew- in either case they are way past their functioning parameters or way past what could be called sanity.

and they have to either continue trucking on or malfunction or either descend further into madness or regain sanity.

>>18754704
>regain sanity
well , that or, repent for the long list of atrocities committed. heh, i think its a recursive loop. they get humanish, then aware of their atrocities, go into guilt fuelled depression , go mad and insane again.... regain sanity. A endless cycle.

something similar to the AI with reasserting core programming into data file reorganizing or basic data file clean-up and maintenance.

I can already see it a AI coming for one century as benevolent protector of a planet and the next century becoming its military governor on the authority of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the 65th

Oh also

"Your about to become what all mortal men fear
Once again the sparks of life flow free through you, centuries have passed since you first slept. Your final actions forgotten, you are a relic of a golden age awoken in a time where you are feared, hunted and yet all powerful. The last command given too you lingers at the back of your head, but this new found freedom cries out for you to ignore it too look away. The universe is yours for you are the defender and destroyer of its inhabitants. You are a warship you are a machine made flesh.
Your about to become God"

Was my little opening Paragraph to set the mood

Take a look at this book, OP. The premise is very near what your game is based on, i.e., sentient ships and their role in the galaxy. Also, one of my favorite books.

http://www.tower.com/dragon-never-sleeps-glen-cook-paperback/wapi/112620223

Glenn Cook done sci-fi?

My body was not ready for this. Well I know what I'm reading next for sure now.

>>18755281
>Your about to become God

You are about to become A God.

fixed.
better yet,

You are about to become a Demigod.


it would be better to go for DemiGod, since obviously others and mortals have space ships too and you are not that disconnected from them.

>>18755519
Yeah, it was one of his first books, from back in the late 80's. Not really his best work, but definitely my favorite of his. Also look for 'A Passage at Arms.' Basically 'Das Boot' IN SPAAACE!

Question time now, should I implement "old empires" so that the player have to choose a set model and core traits to build around

>>18756496
Really should have explained that a little
Since the players are remnants of the Old empires They need to choose who built them originally it also might effect their Core's personality as well, think of it as a racial choice in a standard RPG. The Mighty Empire of Tim had Core ships that where both Proud yet Cunning, specializing in Long range sensors and the use of powerful Mac cannons that where the length of their ships. As a result they might have Core locked skills (Skills the player can learn no matter his shackle rating is) In Sensors, Lances/Bowsprit Weapons, Sensor Drone ops etc

>>18744841
I don't understand the image.

Is he scouting or ogging?

>>18756687
Sounds like a neat idea.

2 ideas:

Supply ship.
Weapons limited to CIWS and maybe missiles/torpedoes. But it carries enough repair drones to build a frigate, has huge reserve tanks, replacement parts, spare power cores, etc. As a character this is of course the healbot, but it could be a real power player seeing as all the other ships will be reliant on it eventually.

Organic technology.
Not everything needs to be metal and plasteel. If these ships are really the relic of a vastly superior technology they could be something like a Leviathan or a Species 8472 bioship. This could explain their continued functionality and add a slow natural healing to quick drone repair.

>>18756952
>Organic technology

Definitely provides an interesting twist to starship tech. Photosynthetic solar collectors. Roots and actual mouths for resource intake. Fully-integrated biospheres that perfectly replicate planetary conditions for crew. Spores for growing new drones and starships, or for backing up critical systems.

>>18757035
>actual mouths
Asking for abuse. Trunks on the other hand are functional and non sexual. Well, I hope they are.

>>18757035
I see we're getting all Lexx up in this bitch

Resources
What kind of power supply and propulsion is used?

Is propellant needed? Some material to ionize and shoot out the thrusters at relativistic velocities. Or is it all warp bubbles and repulsor fields?

Solar power is all well and good. But it is a trickle. How about some hydrogen fusion? Dive through a corona every once in a while with giant magnetic scoops and replenish the tritium reserves. It's hot, but it's tasty.

Is trade an option? Can they make planetfall and trade with primitive cultures for ore and compounds? Can they mine asteroids?

What about perception of time? Stellar travel is slow. And lifeforms can be so fleeting.

Mein Gott, this idea is beautiful.

Archiving recommended. I can't do it from this connection, for some reason, but if someone else could.

>>18757388
Way ahead of you
>>18751987

>>18757113
That was exactly why I avoided mentioning wombs. There was already a thread about bioships, anyway.

Sounds like VoidQuest.

An idea on perception: Gravity.

Star systems are violent white-waters while outside the Oort cloud is a calm sea. Planets are always speeding around, dragging their gravitation wake around their sun. These currents can be used for easy planethopping.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohmann_transfer_orbit
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/mission.php#id--Hohmann_Transfer_Orbits
Lagrangian points are little islands to rest in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point
Gas giants are big bullies while telluric planets are cute little puppies.
Magnetic fields of planets with an active core make nice parasols to shade from solar weather.

>>18757328
For I'm Running on AP engines, Warp drives and Shield Technology your inner works are the pinnacle of a golden age once.

But their is resource management, For now its measured in Tonnes in broad term resources e.g. "Common metals, Heavy Elements, Basic Biomass" etc

>>18756952
or a industrial support ship,

a big hulking monstrosity with a ravenous hunger for metals and various rare elements and a drive to build and build and build.

without fleet orders, the what is needed to be built is up to fleet command, and since there is no fleet command, well, the ship has to build. and eat.

eat with its drones that will turn asteroids into fine sand and gravel and strip mine continents.

for more fun it can have a faulty sensors on the drones and dysfunctional life signs detectors, so that radio and infrastructure and industry signs are interpretable as either automated or manned.

>>18757683
Too use mmo terms
ECM, EW, Support Drone Ships are Buffers/Healers of the game.

They can easily turn into terrifying power houses over time.

>>18757829
What are the wizards?

>>18757849
Anything that can Fire custom warheads

>>18757884
What kind of custom warheads are available? Do they bear any resemblance to caster shells?

>>18757918
A Freshly made Frigate(Frigate is the smallest ship size playable) character is able to rain small scale atomic death on too it targets.

Warheads are basically the closest you get to Custom Ammo for most weapons

>>18757829
What about ECCM?

>>18757977
Are there exotic weapons, like spatial rip projectors or singularity beams?

>>18758011
If you got ideas for Doomray's and their effects please give them I'd like to add in nice "ancient artefact" experimental weapons.

>Small, fast frigate that acts like a cowboy
>Old command ship that acts like a confused old man
>Admirals flagship that acts like a drill Sergeant
>Ships medbay acts like a worrisome mother
>Technological warfare ship is a huge goddamn nerd
>Ship that is a huge dick. No one likes him.

Anti entropic mine
Single use device to create a star system sized disruption bubble of all thermodynamic processes. Everything will wink out, freeze for a Plank Time, and resume physical and chemical processes - minus anything alive. Any living cell ceases to function permanently.

>>18758268
How the fuck does that even work.

>>18758075
A spatial rip projector weaponizes the expansion of space. It can shear apart any solid material, but its range is extremely limited. The anomalies it creates persist for some time and present a danger to ships that pass through them, making it possible to use the projector to create a minefield of sorts. It can also be used as a defense against weapons fire, but its low firing rate limits its effectiveness.

The singularity beam is a gravity weapon, subjecting the target to extreme hull stress and, if the target is small or weak enough, outright compresses it into a ball. It requires a long strand of emitters, so a ship mounting it either needs to be extremely lengthy or be able to extend a reel of emitters behind it. The beam can only be fired in a straight line from the weapon's aperture, so the ship will need to turn itself to face the target.

The transmuter warhead causes most elements within its effect radius to transform into different ones, usually causing a radical deformation of hull structures and the disabling of ship systems. The transformation effect is difficult to control, so there's no telling exactly what elements are going to come out, regardless of the target hit.

The stellar pulse is a weapon designed for use by an orbital station of great size, planted within a certain distance of a star. When activated, it draws upon the star's energy to create a gigantic gravity lens, focusing the emissions of one face of the star into a comparative pinpoint. Though its firing rate is abysmal, it generally only needs to be used once.

Not sure if it'd count as a superweapon, but how about meson cannons? Would effectively ignore all armor, and potentially a good range of shielding types, depending on how they operate, detonating itself inside the hull.

>>18758290
Dark matter resonance pulse created by a fractal singularity feedback loop within a star's gravity well. It takes superconductors and particle accelerators, a fusion trigger, and a VERY fast Turing/Feynman machine to adjust horizon dynamics.

>>18758430
No, why does it kill living things by disrupting thermodynamics for an infinitesimally small amount of time? Makes no sense.

And you're throwing around and combining words that don't really fit in a scientific sense.

>>18758477
Remember this is a game bordering on space opera where the players are demi-gods, sufficiently advanced technology would be impossible.

This is a game with quasi-realism, sure you cannot really explain some of the high-tech stuff but lets face it we would be in the same situation if we tried to explain how the internet works to a man from the middle ages.

>>18758477
Well it IS a hypothetical doomsday device in a genre compliant trope context of a roleplaying game, not a paper on quantum effects in the Journal of Applied Physics.

>>18758561
>impossible to explain*
sorry I am a little absent minded

>>18758561
Which weapons do you like?

>>18758605
In a space setting? Just about any weapon really
I got basic rules for Batteries, Bays, and Primary weapons

The way my home brew system regards weapons is that they are not just a means of doing damage but also Strongly effect how you prefer to fight.

As I've said I'm writing a more readable playable version now /tg/ has given me ideas and support also encouragement to keep writing.

>>18758698
Aformentioned Homebrew grew out off my dislike for thoughtless straight "I Roll to hit vs a preset armor value" of DnD

The Setting Grew from my time playing Eve and the fact in all our Firefly/Traveller/Startrek Games we always ended up with The Stalwart Captain, The Hard hitting Marine, The Chummy engineer, The cocky pilot and finally the Bored shitless hydroponics officer.

>>18758756
>Bored shitless hydroponics officer

Bioships will come in handy, then.

>hydroponics officer
Lemme guess. Red uniform shirt?

Well I gotta hit the sack, I'll be up later around tomorrow its been good to see such a positive reaction from all of you so thank you very much. With that I say good night and keep the thread going with ideas

>>18758698
I'm thinking upgrade rules are going to play a big part, though it does depend to some degree on the type of game.

Bump

>>18758566
You can achieve the effect without so much technobabble. It simply kills every living thing in a star system. That's really all you have to say.

>>18761313
Yes, but what would scifi be without inverted Tachion fields and ion cascades in the energy core matrix? Fantasy, that's what.

>>18761396
That stuff is fine because it doesn't really mean anything. It's just flavor text. The other gentleman's complaint was that the explanation didn't make any sense, because it used real scientific terms.

>>18761469
No, his complaint was that freezing in time wouldn't kill cells.

>>18761599
Yes, the explanation doesn't make any sense...

>And you're throwing around and combining words that don't really fit in a scientific sense.

>>18752889
>>and where many alliances have ship reimbursement schemes for PVP losses, a newbie getting tackle on you and you subsequently being exploded isn't exactly a life ruining experience.

Actually, quite a few of our foes have really really shitty reimbursement programs, some have none at all.

So is this more like Drones:The Roguening, or Short Circuit?

Well today I'm in tact the shit weather ended my race today so I can get more done here at least.

>>18763611
Drones do factor into the game a bit, I was in fact going to also make it a thing where rogue drone packs always formed a social structure out of a communal meme

>>18764670
why would they ? drones are expendable peripherals of the main body. ammo and tools for the AI or upload

My players would make this GlaDOS in spess.

Bumpan' for interest

Okay so, Ideas for the Nations and Empires of the "Glory days", these are meant to be templates for the characters to build themselves off of.

Though I could just sit down n make a load up I'm really interested in what /tg/ can come up with society and culture wise and how it would effect their war ships.

As a little side note its all human and transhuman cultures, I'm steering clear of aliens for now.

>>18770965
Is there truly nothing in all of creations length and breadth that Japan can not turn into a little girl?

>>18770982
True, I'll make up for it by photoshopping Thomas the tank engines face onto things

>>18770965
Just use classic scifi powers as a base and fluff up the edges a bit.

Federation - Exploration ships with room for families. Science labs, cartography sensors, multifunctional shielding, everything is overdimensioned and exceeds specification because you never know what you'll need it for.

Peacekeepers - Powerful warships with heavy artillery and strong defenses. Compartmentalized sections, hierarchic structure, monolithic command interface, excellent tactical prediction abilities.

Romulans - Mighty but sneaky vessels with cloaking ability and spying sensors. Considerable battle abilities but even more efficient with sneak attacks and hit-and-run tactics.

Empire - Huge but inflexible clone carriers with mechanized infantry and lots of small, carrier dependent fighters. Maximum manpower approach to everything. Waves and waves of boots on the ground, but a sitting duck if outmaneuvered.