GURPS Spaceships

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==
== Later installments ==
* Spaceships 2: Traders, Liners, and Transports
* Spaceships 3: Warships and Space Pirates
* Spaceships 4: Fighters, Carriers, and Mecha
* Spaceships 5: Exploration and Colony Spacecraft
* Spaceships 6: Mining and Industrial Spacecraft
* Spaceships 7: Divergent and Paranormal Tech
* Spaceships 8: Transhuman Spacecraft
== See Also ==
* Fanon Tactics: Spaceships
*Designer's Notes: GURPS Spaceships (9/28/2007)
*Spaceship Encyclopedia
*Black Hole Power Plant (Houserule)
==Related GURPS books==
* GURPS Space
* GURPS Transhuman Space
==Additional Information==
*Spaceship Design
*Black Hole Ships
*Planet Ships
*Generation Ships
==Tools==
*GURPS Spaceships Design Spreadsheet (forums)
*Introduction (GURPS Spaceships Design Spreadsheet Tutorial) - video
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