Core Systems

While we're on the new rules thing what about a internal gravity being a core
system. Thingk what happens to the crew of a destroyer if it's in the middle
of a 35G turn and the inertial dampeners go out. Just thinking.....

> On Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:50:50 Los wrote:

I dunno, why not just stick it in with Life Support? Having a separate system
where the failure table looks like...

1-3 Extreme greyout/blackout. Ship drifts for d6 turns, 4-6 Crew reduced
to a red paste. Ship drifts indefinitely.

... doesn't seem like much fun. Besides, the only ships to be making those
sorts of radical turns are so small and crunchy they tend to die quick enough
anyhow.

Come to think of it, given the time scale of FT, are the turns being made all
that radical anyhow?

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> Los wrote:

Mmmmmm... Chunky Salsa. Somebody pass the nachos.

I think thrust 8 translates to about 4-8 G, so inertial compensator
failure is not instantly fatal.
For full details, see page 43-44 of the Fleet Book.

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And the cream is whipped & soured, with your avocado pre-pasted.
Now all you need to find is the melted cheese...
;-)

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> On Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:50:50 -0500 Los <los@cris.com> wrote:

> While we're on the new rules thing what about a internal gravity
Just thinking.... <

You could do that, or you could assume that the grav compensators are included
in the life support system. At that sort of acceleration,
inertial dampening _is_ a life support system!

Phil