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GURPS Spaceships is the first book in a simple design system that reduces the math while increasing available options. Later installments add in new components and options allowing for further customization.

Systems[]

  • Armor -- hard stuff to protect your ship and crew
  • Cargo Hold -- large and usually unpressurized
  • Cloaking Device -- Invisibility
  • Contragravity Lifter -- Makes it easier to take off from heavy planets/gravity wells
  • Control Room -- The brain of the ship
  • Defensive ECM (Electronic Countermeasures) -- Makes a vessel harder to target
  • Engine Room
  • Enhanced Arrays (Scanners)
  • External Clamp
  • Factory
  • Force Screen
  • Fuel Tank
  • Habitat
    • specialized habitat rooms
  • Hangar Bay
  • Jet Engine
  • Jump Gate
  • Mining and Refinery
  • Open Space
  • Passenger Seating -- more compact, short-term seats, like those of a train or airplane
  • Power Plants -- Generate power, necessary for high-energy systems
  • Ramscoop -- Collects fuel from space, especially useful in gas giants and nebulae. Must go extremely fast to work.
  • Reaction Engines -- Rockets and such
  • Reactionless Engines -- Superscience thrusters that turn electrical power into thrust
  • Reconfigurable System -- A system made of TL11+ smart materials that can shift between room types.
  • Robot Arm -- A robotic arm!
  • Soft-Landing System -- Disposable re-entry system for unpowered landings.
  • Solar Panel Array
  • Space Sails
  • Stardrives (hyperdrive, warp drive, etc) -- for Faster-Than-Light travel
  • Stasis Web -- protects the ship through time-stopping shenanigans
  • Upper Stage
  • Weapons
    • Major -- big chunky weapons
    • Medium -- moderate weapons
    • Secondary -- an array of smaller weapons
    • Tertiary -- a battery of proportionally tiny weapons
    • Spinal -- a massive, three-System weapon
  • Beam Types
  • Gun Types
  • Launcher Types

In-Book Examples[]

The first book contains an example of the Star-Flower-class tramp freighter, a compact, versatile ship likely to be used by adventurers, allies and foes alike.

For a complete list of all ship types across all books see The GURPS Starship Encyclopedia!

Spaceship Statblock[]

Spacecraft name (Key)
TL dST/HP Hnd/SR HT Move LWt. Load SM Occ dDR Range Cost
TL dST/HP Hnd/SR HT acceleration G/Delta-V LWt. Load SM Occ dDR Range $SpaceshipCost


Later installments[]

See Also[]

Related GURPS books[]

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