So I was toying around with making a Witchwyrd Mechanic and so for fun, I went and desconstructed the statblock for the Tetrad Caravel to see how good the drives were (since the stats weren't given to us directly) and what I learned was pretty shocking.
The "Proprietary Planar Aperture Drive" that the Witchwyrds use is kinda bonkers. Assuming that they took the maximum amount of available resources after everything else was number crunched (with a very minor amount of rounding to get aesthetically pleasing numbers) the stats for the Planar Aperture Drive come out to being:
Planar Aperture Drive
Drift Rating 2
PCU Cost: 90 (92 is what I got, but I rounded it for the sake of visual appeal)
BP Cost: 5 (for a Medium size ship)
Even assuming that this drive is only functional on Medium or smaller ships it's still incredibly powerful for its price, I can see why the Witchwyrds are so secretive about not letting other races get their hands on em. And that's not even including the fact that they have the ability to shift to any of the planes, rather than just the Drift.
What do you guys think of it?
Of course, that was me highballing the BP price, if it were to fit more in line with the existing formulas then the price would probably be (1 x the ship's size modifier) for a price of a mere 3 BP.
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...bear in mind that the Witchwyrd had this technology *before* the Kasatha and Shobahd became sentient.
And that they were on 'Old' Golarion during the dark and gritty days...
So yes, 'bonkers' would probably be a good way to describe it, and the 'Drift' rating is probably just a courtesy to Drift travel?