Hiver ships / robotic crew

[TheEngineer]

Hi !

While messing around with Hiver ship designs, I am looking for some existing rules to substitute regular crew by "wired" crew.

Do I really have to use LBB:Robots to clone crew positions, or has perhaps anyone made his own houserules for that ?

Regards,

TE

 

[mike wightman]

Yep, you have to use Bk8 - or choose a design from 101 Robots

A quick house rule for a robotic crew is to calculate the crew required as normal and pay for the stateroom cost in MCr, but not install the staterooms.
This gives a robotic ship with a skill level of 1 in all ship functions/skills.
Pay for the staterooms again and you get a skill level of 2, and again for a 3, and again for a 4, which is the maximum starting skill level.

 

[parmasson]

Hehehe…Just build non mobile robot brains. Throw a few mobile repair drones in then a few of those Six-Eyes-Nest warbots and you are good to go.

For space: Just use their displacement to the nearest half ton. Throw in a few repair workshops and BAM! Robot ship.

Hmmmmm…I am gonna have to do this.

 

[aramis]

I use 0.5 Td per robot workstation, at a cost of MCr0.5 each, including the non-removeable robot. Real crew to robots must be at least 1TL-6) IMTU So at TL 8, 1 crewman of every 3 must be a genuine person, a 1:2 ratio. YMMV, and probably should.

I figure most of that space is manipulator space.

 

[Icosahedron]

By far the largest crew requirement is for gunners. I have a house rule that allows 1 gunner per battery provided the ships computer is at least size 9 and at least 1 size bigger than minimum requirements (big ships will just have to get 2 computers). No robots, but greater automation.

 

[mike wightman]

In High Guard you only need one gunner per turret battery, two gunners per bay weapon, and one per 100-tons of spinal mount.

 

[Icosahedron]

I have a house rule that allows 1 gunner per battery

Originally posted by Sigg Oddra:
In High Guard you only need one gunner per turret battery, two gunners per bay weapon, and one per 100-tons of spinal mount.

Well b****r me, you're right. All this time I've ben duplicating a rule that already existed and no-one ever pulled me up over it!! (Goes back to the drawing board in shame)

 

[TheEngineer]

I..ron, that just stresses the quality of the rule

Anyway, thanks for the input so far.
I just got a copy of Flynns "Robots of charted space" book from the Avenger site. It looks just fine and I guess it serves well for this purpose, too.

Besides, using TL16 computer hardware in this case seems to allow a considerable reduction of basic crew requirements with the MT ruleset.

Regards,

TE