Aircar Altitude | Star Frontiers

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tbody {border-top:none;} p{margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;}</style><div class="node"><div class="nodecontent"><span class="taxonomy"></span><div class="submitted"></div><div class="content"><br /><b>Open Top Aircars</b> (Utility to Basic)<br /><div style="display: block; float: left; padding-bottom: 0px; width: auto; padding-top: 0px" class="blackbox"><b style="background: #fff; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -5px; margin-right: -5px" class="niftycorners"><b style="background-color: #000000; border-color: #7f7f7f" class="r1"></b><b style="background-color: #000000; border-color: #7f7f7f" class="r2"></b><b style="background-color: #000000; border-color: #7f7f7f" class="r3"></b><b style="background-color: #000000; border-color: #7f7f7f" class="r4"></b></b><br /><img width="150" src="http://starfrontiers.us/files/u22/aircar.jpg" alt="Closed top aircar" height="115" /><b style="margin-top: 0px; background: #fff; margin-left: -5px; margin-right: -5px" class="niftycorners"><b style="background-color: #000000; border-color: #7f7f7f" class="r4"></b><b style="background-color: #000000; border-color: #7f7f7f" class="r3"></b><b style="background-color: #000000; border-color: #7f7f7f" class="r2"></b><b style="background-color: #000000; border-color: #7f7f7f" class="r1"></b></b></div><br /><br /><br />These type of aircars have a max ceiling of 9,100 meters. This is due to the oxygen levels needed to sustain brain activity. At this height without oxygen a character will loose consciousness in less then one minute.<br /><br /><br />Refer to the table below :<br /><div style="padding-bottom: 0px; width: 100%; padding-top: 0px; background-color: #bbbbbb" class="mediumgraybox"><b style="background: #fff; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -5px; margin-right: -5px" class="niftycorners"><b style="background-color: #bbbbbb; border-color: #dddddd" class="r1"></b><b style="background-color: #bbbbbb; border-color: #dddddd" class="r2"></b><b style="background-color: #bbbbbb; border-color: #dddddd" class="r3"></b><b style="background-color: #bbbbbb; border-color: #dddddd" class="r4"></b></b><br /><table border="0" style="border: #000000 0pt solid"><tbody><tr style="background-color: #00006b"><td align="center" vAlign="middle"><b><font color="#ffffff">METERS</font><br /></b></td><td align="center"><b><font color="#ffffff">RESULT </font></b></td><td align="center"><b><font color="#ffffff">ROLL</font></b></td></tr><tr style="background-color: #ffffff"><td>3,000<br /></td><td>10% decrease in oxygen<br /></td><td>STA check + 20% or become unconsious<br />DEX/RS/INT/LOG cut by 10%<br /></td></tr><tr><td>5,400<br /></td><td>30% decrease in oxygen<br /></td><td>STA check or become unconsious imediatley,<br />after 30 turns PC becomes unconsious automatically<br />DEX/RS/INT/LOG cut by 50%<br /></td></tr><tr style="background-color: #ffffff"><td>5,401 -<br />9,100<br /></td><td>?<br /></td><td>?<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><b style="margin-top: 0px; background: #fff; margin-left: -5px; margin-right: -5px" class="niftycorners"><b style="background-color: #bbbbbb; border-color: #dddddd" class="r4"></b><b style="background-color: #bbbbbb; border-color: #dddddd" class="r3"></b><b style="background-color: #bbbbbb; border-color: #dddddd" class="r2"></b><b style="background-color: #bbbbbb; border-color: #dddddd" class="r1"></b></b></div><br /><b>Enclosed Aircar </b><br /><br />Max ceiling is 20,000 meters.<br />These types of aircars may be sealed or pressurized. The wealthy and some military units have add-ons for limited sub-atmospheric flight.<br /><br /><b>Luxary Aircar</b><br /><br /><b>Sport Aircar<br /><br /></b>Add this info <b><br /></b><div class="quote-msg"><div class="quote-author"><em>Rum Rogue</em> wrote:</div>Looking through a few Dragon articles this is what I could find:<br />Tanks Alot, it states that bombs can be mounted on pylons on an aircar. <br />Here Comes the Cavalry gives a brief description of an VTOL Fighter-Bomber as "An armored aircar with exterior weapon mounts this is designed for high-speed bombing runs. However, it is versatile enough to hold its own in a dogfight.<br />From Freighters to Flying Boats, under the description of Amphibious Aircar we see "... Its underside and wings have pontoons to keep the craft afloat."<br /><br />There is still no type of altitude given, but it would seem to allude to the aircar being capable of actual flight.<br /><br />In the adventure Mission to Alcazaar, pg 18 (remastered edition), an encounter with an aircar has the vehicle aproaching at 400kph with an altitude of 50 meters.<br /></div></div></div><br /><br />(Alpha Dawn Expanded: More information will be added later)</div>