Vector movement

Nostromo Crew courtesy of http://alienseries.wordpress.com

Crew? I pilot the ship, I astrogate for hyperspace, I scan with my sensors and if I see something I don’t like, I shoot it with my lasers. Repairs? Hah, my ship is too scared of me to ever break down.

Sir Charles Pancroft, Baron of Centry, on the merits of a one man ship crew.

Centry/Glisten/Spinward marches 023-1013

Intercept make various assumptions regarding crew size which may not fit your concept of how the ship should be crewed. As an example, Intercept assumes that Gunners and Sensor ops hold dual roles (the lower number of the two is in parenthesis to indicate this). Write your own value, including 0, to override whatever Intercept has calculated. I have added some smarts to the design sheet to help you see what effects your crew numbers will have:

• Tactician (Pilot) The ship is small enough that the Pilot and Tactician can be the same person without penalty. Instead of using the lowest result of the Pilot roll and the Tactician roll he simply roll once using the lowest skill of Pilot and whatever flavor of Tactician skill he uses (Ship tactics or Fleet tactics).
• Sensor ops (2) Sensor ops or Gunners crew number in parenthesis indicate that Intercept assumes the two positions are dual-role. If you intend to Scan after combat your attacks and defenses are modified by -2 and your scans are also modified by -2. If you want dedicated Gunners and Sensor Ops to avoid penalties from dual role simply write the number in the light yellow edit column to the right.
• Gunners (-2) A negative value in parenthesis after the crew type is your Undermanning modifier, ‘(No)’ means you cannot perform tasks by that crew category  because you have less than 10% of the required crew.
• Technicians (No FW) A ‘(No FW)’ means your Repair Crew must be repaired instead of revived by Frozen Watch because it has more than 50% robots.
• Low passage? A ‘?’ indicate that you don’t have enough freezers for the numbers you have chosen.
• Total crew? A ‘?’ indicate that you don’t have enough life support units for the numbers you have chosen.
• Frozen watch (x2) A ‘(x1)’ or ‘(x2)’ after Frozen watch indicate how many levels of damage you can restore from Frozen watch. You can never have more damage level restores than 2 no matter how large frozen watch you specify.

The design system and ready-made designs have been updated as has the rule book (look at the top row for Ship.xls version and Data.xls version. Ship.xls version should be 2013-11-17 or newer). You can download them all from the Downloads page.

Q: What do you call a timepiece that stops whenever the temperature goes below zero?

A: The frozen watch.

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