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Example: BliCluet the Dralasite is shooting its laser pistol at a street punk that has just stolen BliCluet's hover cycle. Its Dexterity is modified by -10 because the target is a moving vehicle, and by -20 because the cycle is at medium range. BliCluet has a modified Dexterity of 15 for this shot. One of its two shots hits the cycle. BliCluet had the laser set for 7d1O damage. The player rolls 2d10 and gets a 16. Adding 7 for the damage and 2 because the target was a cycle gives a modified result of 25; the cycle's steering is jammed to the right. FLYING MOVEMENT Characters can fly using glijets, jetcopters and aircars. The movement rules for these vehicles are different than those for ground vehicles. Glijets A glijet is a combination rocket pack and hang-glider. The rocket pack is used to get the wearer up into the air. The chemical fuel tank holds enough fuel to burn for 20 turns (two minutes). A character can climb 50 meters straight up every turn he burns fuel. The rocket can be turned off at any time. When it is shut off, the wearer can open the collapsible wings and glide. The rocket usually is shut off when gliding, but it can be left on to increase speed. Speed and Distance. If there is no wind, the wearer can glide 5 meters horizontally for each meter he drops vertically. A gliding character drops 10 meters/turn, with or without using the rocket. If the rocket is used in level flight, the speed increases to 100 kph. Characters can travel much farther and stay aloft much longer if there is wind or if they are riding on rising air currents. This is subject to the referee's discretion, but favorable winds and air currents ca n multiply the distance traveled and the time spent aloft by as much as 10. Landing. A character that does not use the rocket to land must pass a Dexterity check in order to land on target. If he fails the check, he misses his target square by 2d10 meters in a random direction. Tactical Movement. A character that is gliding with the rocket off can make one 45 degree turn per game turn. Using the rocket allows the character to turn up to three times at any point in his move. Jetcopters and Aircars Tactical Movement. Jetcopters and aircars can make up to six 45 degree turns in one game turn. These turns can be made at any point in the vehicle's move. Aircars and jetcopters can accelerate or decelerate up to 100 meters/turn each turn. If they are stopped, these vehicles can hover in place and turn to face any direction. They can increase or decrease their altitude by 20 meters/turn. When scouting, jetcopters and aircars fly at or above the level of the treetops, 50 to 100 meters above the 26 ground. To stay out of sight they can fly very close to the ground, following the contours of the hills and valleys. This is called Nap of the Earth (NOE) flying. NOE flying limits a jetcopter to its cruising speed and an aircar to 100 kph (175 meters/turn). Aerial Combat The following modifiers should be used when flying vehicles are involved in combat. AERIAL COMBAT MODIFIERS TABLE Aerial Combat Modifiers Attacker is using glijet or riding in moving -20 jetcopter or aircar Attacker is riding in jetcopter or aircar that is -10 hovering Target is using glijet or riding in moving aircar -10 or jetcopter Target is hovering jetcopter or aircar 0 Other modifiers are used when they apply. Jetcopter passengers can not shoot unless the side doors are open. Aircar passengers can not shoot unless the canopy is open. This exposes the passengers and the pilot to fire, and reduces the aircar's speed to 80 meters/turn. Damaging Glijets. The only way to shoot down a glijet is to knockout or kill the user. Shooting at the wings has no effect. Damaging Jetcopters and Aircars. When a shot hits a jetcopter or aircar, the attacker rolls 2d10 and adds the number of dice of damage caused by the attack. This number is found on the Flying Vehicle Damage table. AERIAL VEHICLE DAMAGE TABLE # Dice Damage + 2d10 Roll Effect 2-20 No effect 21-24 Acceleration -30 25-28 Turns -2 29-31 Forced Landing 32-34 Loss of Control 35+ Vehicle Burning Explanation of Results ACCELERATION -30. The vehicle's engines were damaged, reducing its acceleration by 30 meters/turn. TURNS -2. The vehicle's control and steering equipment was damaged, reducing the number of turns it can make per game turn by two. FORCED LANDING. The vehicle's fuel tank or parabattery was hit, leaving it with enough fuel to fly for 10 more minutes (100 turns). If the vehicle does not land within 10 minutes, it will crash.
LOSS OF CONTROL. The cockpit was damaged by the attack. The pilot must pass a Reaction Speed check to keep the vehicle under control. If he fails the check, the vehicle immediately loses d100 meters of altitude. If the vehicle loses more altitude than it had, it crashes. VEHICLE BURNING. The vehicle is out of control and burning. It will crash in two turns. Characters can jump from the vehicle (see Movement: Jumping) or use a parawing. A parawing is a small, emergency glider, similar to a glijet with no rocket. A parawing will not work if the character was less than 10 meters above the ground when he jumped. Crashing Passengers in a vehicle that crashes suffer 1d10 points of damage for every 10 meters the vehicle fell, plus 1d10 points of damage for every 20 meters/turn it was traveling. This damage is doubled if the character is not strapped into a seat. When dividing the vehicle's altitude by 10 and speed by 20, round fractions down. If the vehicle is burning, the character suffers an additional 1d10 points of damage at the start of every turn he is in the vehicle. The crashed vehicle will not fly again without extensive repairs. EXAMPLE: A jetcopter is traveling 75 meters above the ground at 30 meters/turn when an attack damages the cockpit. The pilot fails his Reaction Speed check, so the copter drops d100 meters. The die roll is 83, meaning the vehicle drops 83 meters. This is more than its altitude, so it crashes. One passenger jumps using his parawing, but the pilot does not have one. When the copter hits the ground he suffers 7d10 damage because it fell 75 meters and another 1d10 because it was traveling 30 meters/turn. OTHER VEHICLES Many other means of transportation besides those described above are available in STAR FRONTIERS games. The systems and vehicles listed below will not be used in combat very often, but players may find ways to work them into their adventures. Public Transportation Monorails are the most common mass transit systems on Frontier worlds. Monorail cars can hold up to six passengers and travel at 70 to 100 meters/turn. Monorail passengers usually pay 1 CR per day for an unlimited number of rides. Occasionally, monorails are built underground and called subways. Cabs of many types are common. Ground cars, skimmers and even cycles are used as cabs. Some are operated by drivers while others are piloted by robots or computers. A typical price is 2 Cr for the first km traveled and 1 Cr for each km after that. Moving Walkways, also called people-movers or sliders, are sidewalks that are built like conveyor belts. A person simply steps onto the slider and it carries him, her or it along at 10 meters/turn. Using a slider does not cost anything. Flyers Super-Sonic Transports, or SSTs, are large jetpowered aircraft capable of flying at very high altitudes at several times the speed of sound (sound travels 1,988 meters/turn). They are used as luxury passenger planes flying between large cities, as large cargo haulers supplying cities under construction, etc. Orbital shuttles, often called orbiters, are a cross between an airplane and a space ship. They are powerful enough to fly into orbit around a planet, and sturdy enough to re-enter the atmosphere and land on the surface. They are commonly used to carry supplies and passengers to orbiting space stations and spaceports. An orbiter can reach an orbiting space station in one to two hours. Water Vehicles Ships of many varieties are found throughout the Frontier. Players can find anything from three-mast sailing ships to luxury liners and supertankers. Hovercraft are used commonly in areas where the sea is relatively calm. Skimmers can be used over water if the waves are not more than 40 cm high. Submarines are used on worlds where the seas are very rough, covered with ice or otherwise unsuited to surface travel. They are common around underwater cities and sea-bottom mines. Animals Riding Animals and beasts of burden are used on many planets where the local technology is not advanced enough to build other vehicles. They also are used to get into areas that are too rough for ground vehicles, or where their natural abilities to sense water or danger are needed more than a vehicle's speed and reliability. 27
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mining natural resources. The plane
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82 Human Gun-Fu Expert STR/STA 45/6
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How to Be a Referee A referee is ma
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Physical Structure Sathar are long,
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How to Referee Adventures Adventure
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Pirate G (RW 30, M 30, PS 3, IM 3,
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LEVITATION Success Rate: 50% + skil
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