Which leads to GM fun when the players arrive at a TL-11 spaceport
needing vital repairs to their TL-13 ship...

On 3/31/2021 10:29 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 6:11 PM Bruce Johnson
> <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
>> “Yeah the aft staterooms have always smelled a wee bit funky since those hydraulic lines blew and we had to put out the fire by venting half the ship to vacuum…"
> I'm building this at TL-13... and going through NASA documents on
> TL7/8  space shuttle and ISS for inspiration and thinking things
> through
> One of the biggest simplifications is saying that TL13 has
> electrodynamic metals rather than hydraulics... because of all the
> huge support chain to make hydraulics work
> Shuttle Hydraulics needed APU ... which needed fuel cells running and
> needed its own reactant supplies and needed lots of heat dumping and
> then controls and monitoring for all that and another layer of
> controls and monitoring on the controls so you could switch to
> redundant control network. AND then redundant APU and everything else
> again.
>
> Gravitics and M-Drive are huge simplifiers too - just getting rid of
> RCS and making it part of the M-Drive greatly simplifies things
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