On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 03:00:43AM +0000, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
> Under normal circumstances, a 1G ship can't take off from a size 8 or
> greater world. What do people do in their campaigns to deal with this?
> Niven postulated compressed air booster rockets in one of his
> stories. Not as boosters but to avoid pouring heat into the
> atmosphere. I think the story was flatlander. I did a little bit of
> digging and figured that at just 1.2G, a Free Trader would be able to
> get to a circular orbit of 120km from the surface of a size 8
> world. From there 100 diameters isn't too difficult.
>
> As a GM, if you would permit the players to over boost their drive by
> 20%, what penalty would you extract? I'm thinking that the time at
> 120% normal counts as double time towards this ship's annual or
> something similar?
>

Thanks for the comments guys! This has been enlightening.

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Chris

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