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Mamatried
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 Posted: Tue May 11, 2021 12:03 am Post subject: "Beam me up Scotty" |
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No relax this is not a trekking post in any way.
Basically I was thinking, or rather asking if ther eis eny presidence for uing tractor beams on people.
I know in the vader comic where is killed some monster and by liberated a planet, he was "beamed up" though he was at the time staning on the werckage of his TIE which was alo pulled up.
But could a tractobeam be tuned, or in any way used to "tractor" organic material.
basically like the beam me up scotty sort of thing |
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Isn't that how rescue ships pick up pilots that go EVA? use small scale tractor beams to pull them into a cargo hold/air lock??
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| Posted: Tue May 11, 2021 8:10 am Post subject: |
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I would think so, but I have been looking everywhere for any such tech or stat write up.
but yeah, the Wookiepedia section on space rescue corps do describe that there is such a device used in rescue, which is in parts the reason I am wondering, as I am doing a space rescue thing |
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Perhaps, the Squib tensor rifle, could be used as a basis. Just upped in size (say speeder power output).
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| Posted: Tue May 11, 2021 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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I'd be inclined to just make something like that a Character or Speeder-scale tractor beam, if mounted on a ship. Say, Speeder Scale, 2D Strength, and 2D Fire Control. It can hit a Character-Scale target without much problem, and its easy to pull them in with a 4D Strength, unless they can find something big to hold on to and are strong enough. It would also be big enough to manipulate some wreckage or escape pods but, mounted on a Starfighter scale ship, it would be about as much as someone getting out to push.
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garhkal
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I'd probably say 4d speeder scale damage, 2d fire control.. That way it can still pull in escape pods from fellow fighters.
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| Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 11:27 am Post subject: |
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| garhkal wrote: | | I'd probably say 4d speeder scale damage, 2d fire control.. That way it can still pull in escape pods from fellow fighters. |
I'd also consider range, and perhaps a strength drop-off at greater range... a 2D at max, a 4D at close?
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That could work.. Though in space most ranges are put as "SU's (space units). So how would that work in 'meters'?
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| Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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| garhkal wrote: | | That could work.. Though in space most ranges are put as "SU's (space units). So how would that work in 'meters'? |
Space units for weapon ranges are "translated" to atmosphere ranges with 1:100
meaning a wapon 1-3 space range will have 100-300(meter) atmosphere range, it could be made a capsule that such a "man tractor beam" or a personnel rescue beam uses atmoshere ranges in space? |
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| Posted: Wed May 12, 2021 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Mamatried wrote: | | garhkal wrote: | | That could work.. Though in space most ranges are put as "SU's (space units). So how would that work in 'meters'? |
Space units for weapon ranges are "translated" to atmosphere ranges with 1:100
meaning a wapon 1-3 space range will have 100-300(meter) atmosphere range, it could be made a capsule that such a "man tractor beam" or a personnel rescue beam uses atmoshere ranges in space? |
The space unit to meters ratio you referred to is the atmosphere range of space weapons. I would probably only use that formula if the beam was starfighter scale. If it is speeder scale, it may be less. Tractoring a character with a speeder scale beam is already going to have a harder difficulty to hit, so the beam operator shouldn't be too far off.
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| garhkal wrote: | | That could work.. Though in space most ranges are put as "SU's (space units). So how would that work in 'meters'? |
Long is SU 1. Shorter ranges are in meters, making more careful manuevering useful.
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