RE: G-rating

Bruce ([email removed]) writes:

>One thing perhaps overlooked is that all of your crew on a star vessel may
>not be strapped into acceleration couches at the moment the pilot wants
>the ship to dance on it's tail and flip out of harms way.  During combat
>in space are we assuming that all crew are in G-suit equiped Vacc-suits
>and remain in acceleration couches to do all their work?  Are acceleration
>couches factored into crew space for all crew in starship construction
>rules?

I tried to account for this in my last post, but you stated it much more
clearly here.  In order for the designs that I was proposing to work, "all crew
are in G-suit equiped Vacc-suits and remain in acceleration couches to do all
their work.  Acceleration couches would be factored into crew space for all
crew."

This would be much easier to design/implement in the smaller non-starships
(like fighters/cutters/SDBs) than in (for instance) a 20,000 ton cruise-ship.
I'd envisioned squadrons of highly maneuverable fighters swarming around the
other more lumbering ships in the arena.  It'd have a very Star-Wars like
feel to it, I think.  Of course, a zippy ship with a Meson gun has advantages
too.  (I think the trade-off in crew-space would account for large portion of
armor, especially if you can only be hit on a rolled 12 [or better ;)  .])

Nukes in space trash my original hypothesis, though.  I guess that's where
nuclear dampers come into play.

I guess I'm approaching this from High-Guard's POV, since that's what I'm
most familiar with.
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[email removed] (SPG6)