It starts with the PCs scavenging to survive on Akiton, takes them through 'finding' a crashed experimental Eoxian starship, and will eventually lead to an attempt by the Corpse Fleet to undead-ize the being gestating inside the planet Aucturn and using it to conquer the entire Pact Worlds system. You know, the usual.
I'm going to rule that we'll play it RAW for the moment, unless something obviously wrong crops up during play. I'm sure it will be fine. (Incidentally, Rysky - thanks for being such a staunch defender of this unfairly maligned class across these boards. I think it's a really interesting, really flavourful class - and my partner, who'll be playing one in our game, agrees. We were both a little nervous because of the negativity that seems to be surrounding the solarian, but your constant defence of the class has greatly reassured us!) EDIT: Actually, I think I may be confusing you with someone else, but I'll let the compliment stay, just in case. :)
In the descriptions for Photon Mode and Graviton Mode on p102 of the CRB, it says that when you enter those modes you become "photon-attuned" and "graviton-attuned". Some of the later Stellar Revelations (e.g. Wormholes, p107) explicitly say that they require the PC to be graviton-attuned. (Others explicitly require photon-attuement.) Some of the earlier Revelations, though, just seem to require attunement to either mode. The language used is generally "when you are attuned or fully attuned...", and does not specify a mode. Does this therefore mean you can use the "attuned" aspects of these Revelations, no matter which mode you are in? For example, you could therefore be graviton-attuned and use the extra bull-rush element of the Stellar Rush Photon Revelation (p104-105). Am I understanding this correctly?
Yes yes, but was the solarian underpowered?
I'm playing around with building some starships, and I'm a little confused on how to factor in the PCU cost of a Drift engine. Under the Drift engine paragraph of the 'Other Systems' section (p298), it says that "Drift engines have a PCU requirement". The accompanying table suggests that a ship must have a "minimum PCU" to carry a particular Drift engine - for example, the Signal Basic needs a minimum PCU of 75. All other systems with a PCU cost refer to it as just that - PCU, not "minimum" PCU - which is making me think that the cost for a Drift engine is worked out somewhat differently. So my question is... Does a Drift engine have a PCU cost that I should routinely include? Or is the "minimum PCU" simply a guideline that says "if your ships power core can't provide this much power, you can't have this particular Drift engine - but the engine itself does not have a PCU cost"? I hope that's clear. God knows the rules aren't! ;) |
