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I noticed there is not a large selection of vehicles in the Core Rulebook, they are mostly ground vehicles. I noticed this when I was designing an encounter with legacy elves, they are encountered in a forest full of trees that are 1000 feet high! (This is due to the 1/6 Lunar gravity) Because these elves live in the trees, they need flying vehicles, and the selection of vehicles includes a lot of ground vehicles: Goblin Junkcycle, Basic Enercycle, Exploration buggy, Urban cruiser, Police Cruiser, All terrain vehicle. The water vehicles are Torpedo Minisub, Pump-Jet Sub, and Hover pod, but nothing that flies. The terrain of the forest is difficult to navigate, the elves being nature oriented, might not want a vehicle that tramples the forest floor and all the obstables ground vehicles might get stuck in, bogs, roots, shrubs and the like, it would be so much better to fly above that stuff. So we need a range of flying vehicles. Fortunately I got an old Traveller T20 Book with just the sort of vehicles I need, I just need to convert them over to Starfinder.
Here is a list of vehicles from the T20 book that would serve the need:
Primitive Biplane SI 50 AC 11 Spd 200 kph cost cr 11,840
Cargo Plane SI 75 AC 10 Spd 600 kph cost cr 363,760
Cargo jet SI 75 AC 10 Spd 1100 kph cost cr 1,594,000
Helicopter SI 60 AC 11 Spd 250 kph cost cr 82,760
Air/Raft SI 63 AC 10 Spd 120 kph cost cr 273,300
Pressurized Air/Raft SI 68 AC 10 Spd 120 kph cr 372,720
GCarrier SI 75 AC 10 Spd 120 kph cr 502,880
Speeder SI 68 AC 10 1100 kph cost cr 3,946,000
Grav Belt SI 5 AC 10 120 kph cr 9,232
All these vehicles allow one to fly, and I've taken them from my T20 Traveller book, so the stats in that book might be the easiest to convert to another D20 game such as Starfinder.
SI stands for structural integrity, that is the vehicle' hit points
AC is the armor class of the vehicle, the same system as is used in Pathfinder and Starfinder, the higher armor class is better
Speed is in Kilometers per hour (kpH)
Cost is in Traveller credits (cr)
Now can we convert these to Starfinder? It would be great if we had a selection of flying vehicles.
You could possibly get away with using really low tier spaceships. Depends on the kind of game you want really.
Goddity wrote: You could possibly get away with using really low tier spaceships. Depends on the kind of game you want really. While this idea sounds good on paper, starships interact rather poorly with non-starship statblocks and was never intended to. Flying vehicles should just be statted as vehicles.
Anyway, for what it's worth, the police cruiser has the ability to fly.
Your elves never hear of escalators or elevators? ;)
Why do they need vehicles?
With trees 1000' tall you could have neighborhoods in a single tree.
Branches or foot bridges would connect trees together. Given the size they are probably spaced a couple hundred feet apart.
While I disagree with you assumption of the Elves being much taller their reliance on running/ climbing would explain why a race on a low gravity world has anywhere near normal strength. Being Elves they would also have an advantage with high Dex giving extra move speed (on the moon) as they could better judge a bounce move. If you gave them a -2 ST adjust they could still carry several times the weight as normal person does on Earth. Base speed on Moon (for them could 60-120'
For larger loads or long distances they could use creatures. Birds, spiders and ants bred for size come to mind. A size Large bird could easily transport 2 people, Huge 4-6, the limit is more space than weight. Spiders could easily climb or use webs to cross long distances, probably making them good ground hunting mounts/ Ants can climb as well and have an incredible strength to weight ratio. An ant the size of a truck (60')could carry train loads.
they might use giant eagles, they could nest in the trees, but these are technologically advanced elves, in fact they have their own spaceships. I am doing a fantasy version of our Solar System. The Earth is our Earth in the near future, maybe one or two decades in the future, and there was an event which transported the Solar System and the nearest other star system to the Starfinder galaxy, the humans of Earth call this event the "Discontinuity" One moment every thing was normal and then it was a month later, their memories of that month were erased as was all records whether on paper or in computer whatever form, and when they started remembering again, the sky looked much different, there were for Suns in the sky, a bright one, another yellow and orange sun dimmer because they are much farther away, and a red dwarf so dim that it can only be seen with a telescope, the other stars in the sky were different also with none of the familiar constellations. The Sun the Earth orbits is different, it is of the same type but 50% brighter, thus the Earth orbits farther out and a year now takes 475 days! This brighter Sun has a wider habitable zone Venus has its own native humans living a primitive stone age existence along side dinosaurs. Venus has a large moon called Mercury, Mercury has an atmosphere and is habitable, its inhabitants are halflings, dwarves, and gnomes. Mars is a dry but habitable world, its inhabitants are Orcs and Humans and some other creatures. Now for these other worlds, the transition occurred in the far past, in the case of the Moon it was 30,000 years ago, the elves found this world to be a paradise, the colonized it. The Moon kept losing atmosphere into space, but that air was replaced as it was lost due to a gate to the Elemental plane of Air, so the Moon has a large and mostly invisible "comet tail' or air pointing away from the Sun.
I think the elves live a low impact existence on the Moon, that basically means they don't build roads but fly over the landscape.
Bioengineering is advanced technology.
The moon may be rich organically, perhaps a mostly carbon compound comet struck at some point, but certain trace elements may be very hard to find. With no fossil fuels and the materials to make a fusion reactor being scarce they may have resorted to biological means. Tech combined with magic could easily breed creatures that fit their needs. Few if any are likely to resemble creatures we know. Some insects may have shells made of silicon compounds to reduce their organic requirements. Many would be modified so they were less threatening. Spider bites that inject a gallon of venom would be a big problem. A normal ant scaled to 60'would be a huge threat if it accidentally got a chemical signal to harvest, but if the head were reduced in size it would not be as bad. they could even have industrial uses. Clothing made from spider silk could be much longer lasting, reducing bio impact. Another spider breed could continuously extrude a web with carbon nano tubes as smaller creatures wove it into building materials.
Using biological or hybrid means, rather than purely mechanical would be a great way to distinguish them from other races.
I think even the 'ground' vehicles are technically floating. I know there's a pic of Rhea or Iseph driving some kind of hover bike in the book somewhere.
Here is my Elf Entry for Starfinder. Same format as in the Alien Archive.
I think elves would prefer rifles and guns firing bullets to lasers, as the later starts forest fires!
Here are some conversions I did for Traveller vehicles. I used the Buggy as the Rosetta stone for converting vehicles from Traveller to Starfinder.
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