Recommended investment for any pilot assigned to heavy and assault 'Mechs (or any other that's expected to take a beating). Guts determine your pilot's survival chance and the added abilities greatly increase your ability to survive on the battlefield.Light 'Mechs rely on movement, so they should get at least the sprint distance bonus. However, the sprinting bonuses, increased evasion, and stability make it a worthwhile investment at least to the unsteady threshold. Piloting is mostly about punching enemy 'Mechs - it does not affect the 'Mech's speed or turning rate.Dump skill points in like there's no tomorrow. Gunnery is universally useful for any 'Mech that uses ranged weapons, but wasted on melee builds.While destruction of a jumpship in combat is frowned upon, boarding actions and weapons fire directed at the solar sail with the intention of immobilizing a jumpship is permitted under the informal rules of warfare in the Inner Sphere in the 31st century.
#BATTLETECH DROPSHIP CODE#
This meant that they were protected by the code of combat which gradually arose to protect the Inner Sphere's fragile technology base, and generally regarded as off limits during combat. During the 1st and 2nd Succession Wars, most of the orbital construction facilities used to build jumpships were destroyed, and the fragile, slow, poorly armored jumpships were vulnerable targets.īecause of the difficulty of constructing new jumpships to replace those lost in combat, and the important role they play in holding interstellar civilization together, the powers of the Inner Sphere came to regard Jumpships as lostech (technology that is no longer fully understood and which is no longer able to produced) as the Succession Wars dragged on. The Succession Wars created a shortage of jumpships in the Inner Sphere, directly threatening the backbone of interstellar transportation. Unfortunately, recharging the lithium fusion battery doubles the amount of recharge time a jumpship requires, limiting its flexibility somewhat. Some more advanced jumpships carry lithium-fusion batteries which can store an extra charge for the K-F drive, allowing a jumpship to either make a round-trip between two systems without recharging or make two FTL jumps in rapid succession, effectively extending the ship's range to 60 light years.
Typically, during this "turn-around" time, a jumpship will deploy its jump sail to recharge its K-F drive using the local system's star. Depending on the size of a system, the time needed for a trip from a jump point to the system's habitable zone can be anywhere from a few days to a month. The number of dropship docking rings a jumpship has varies from one to nine, depending on the size of the jumpship. īecause they only carry station-keeping drives, jumpships rely on dropships to ferry cargo between the jumpship and planets within a system. Due to the complexity of calculating pirate points, this can be a dangerous procedure, but one which offers an invading fleet a greater chance to catch a system's defenders by surprise. A skilled navigator can also enter a system at a "pirate point", much closer to the system's planets. Generally, jumpships arrive in a solar system at the very edge of a star's gravitational influence, directly above one of the star's two poles, the nexus point to solar north and the nadir point to solar south. The K-F drive's maximum jump range is approximately 30 light years. Larger jumpships also sometimes carry hydroponic gardens in domes attached to the crew section. The crew section usually has at least one spinning centrifuge used to create artificial gravity, referred to as a "gravity deck" or "grav deck" for short. During a jump, the sail is retracted and stored in the engineering section.
In order to generate the enormous amount of power the K-F drive needs to execute an FTL jump, the jumpship deploys a thin metallic solar array, known as a "jump sail." The jump sail is only about a millimeter thick, but can have a diameter of several kilometers. Jumpships consists of a bulbous bridge and living quarters section at the front, a spinal section housing dropship docking rings and a capacitor bank, and the engineering section, which houses the Kearny-Fuchida FTL drive (KF Drive) and the fusion engine.
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