AE Milieu and Design

Components

The associated milieu is the normal 'native' milieu.

• Designs have a certain number of spaces, broken between several functional categories (propulsion, weapons, defenses, electronics, cargo/hangars, options/misc/free).
• Different aptitude setups will have different numbers of each by size class.
• Armor does not have to cover all items; this reduces the size (and thus cost & mass) of armor, but leaves the non-protected components unarmored. Some items can never be placed behind armor.
• Shields always protect all components, even those that cannot be protected by armor.

Weapons

Tags

Energy weapons for magic include light, lightning, and sonic weapons. Energy weapons usually cannot be shot down, but are usually cinematically weak against specialized reflective or dispersive defences.

Hybrid weapons for magic include spiritual energy and many of the more exotic variants of fire. When an opposing defense system attempts a saving throw against a Hybrid weapon, it must treat the attack as whatever it is weaker against (Physical or Energy).

Missile weapons fire a cinematically "slow" projectile which Point-Defense weapons can engage.

Physical weapons launch physical projectiles which may or may not explode turn into a terrifying undead construct on impact.

Magical Circles can be mounted as a Weapon or Option and may be used to attack independently of Power Hungry weapons (since it's a mage casting the spell). They are facilities aboard a vessel or inside an MDP-scale fortification used to enhance or multiply the power of magic-users.

Artifice Weapons are invariably created from some kind of Magical Resource. They tend to have side-effects or spell-like qualities and may be broadly considered the pure-magic counter to industry. Because active magic effects tend to interfere with one another, only one type of Artifice wWeapon may be operated on a ship at a time.

Unique Types

Casting Chamber
A technomagical device used to power-up high magic castings.

Sword and Starship

Spell Boost - Increases the scale of spells cast as appropriate

Lightning Field
Continually fires arcs of energy out at nearby targets.

Sword and Starship

Lightning Storm - Attacks all enemy units within range

Local Effect - Short range

Wave Motion Gun
A weapon system tied into a force propulsion system (reaction propulsion systems do not work) that accumulates wave motion from the fitted unit's movement, charging up for a devastating if short-ranged attack.

Sword and Starship

Supercannon - Extremely powerful attack

Wave Motion Powered - Linear movement is used to charge the weapon

Arc-en-Ciel (Mal)
The Arc-en-Ciel cannon is distantly comparable to the technological bomb-pumped megacannon. It converts an entire ether geode into a brute-force burst of magical energy.

Arcane Magic

Frightening Destructive Power - The destructive power is frightening

Geode Fueled - Each shot needs one full giganeutodyne (GNdyn) of geodes

Propulsion

Powerdrive

Heavy Metal

Fast - Improved linear speed

Armored - Buff to armor due to minimal external fittings

Warp Drive

Sword and Starship

Overdrive - Temporary speed buff

Agile - Improved turning

Logic Drive

Infospace

Reserve Power - Extra face change

Stealthy - Does not increase Signature when active

Fault-Tolerant - Fails half as fast

Cycle-Intensive - Passive Cycle needs

Starbow Breaker (Mal)
The so-called "Starbow Breaker" is an extreme application of highly purified sildron combined with magic sufficiently strong to heavily twist the laws of physics in deep sky. It is highly power intensive and requires the personal attendance of an archmage to function.

Arcane Magic

High Spec - High speed

Mystick Connection - Direct connection to national magical network

Power Hungry - Uses double power

Wizard Maintained - Needs a wizard to maintain stability

Ether Sail
Hazily translucent forcefield 'sails' that can ride the winds of the deep sky, ether sails are one of the best ways to get around on an energy budget.

Specialized

Star Sailor - Can travel at almost no fuel cost

Slow - Not very fast, especially outside of star ways

Scramrocket
High-output reaction scramrockets, capable of almost turning a ship into an aircraft on full burn. Unfortunately, they have massive heat signatures and relatively poor cruising speed due to fuel concerns.

Specialized

Afterburner - Temporary strong speed buff

Clumsy - Poor turning

Fuel Hog - Limited afterburner charges

Etheric Spheres
Strange glowing spheres filled with compressed and charged ether. Have unparalleled agility but aren't terribly fast.

Specialized

Non-Newtonian - Can sideslip and corner very sharply

Slow - Not very fast

Teleport Initiator

Add-On

Teleport - Spell ability: Teleport

Power-Intensive - Requires Power to teleport

Star Dial
A magical artifact that locks on to large masses (such as stars, hence the name) and pulls the ship down a star towards them.

Add-On

Flying Comet - Can generate miniature star way bubbles to fly interstellar

Star Sailor - Can travel at almost no fuel cost

Etheric Glide - Reduced speed if not travelling towards the nearest star

Wizard Maintained - Needs a wizard to maintain stability

Gap Demon (Mal)
Affects summoning and other time/space magic. Operates by binding a superdimensional entity or "Gap Demon" to a vessel. Such a form of propulsion is not the most impressive in terms of physical performance but allows a vessel to break the boundaries between dimensions or even other more esoteric borders with some refinement.

Add-On

Special Effects such as astral jump

Defenses

Armor

Flash Field

Heavy Metal

Overshield - Temporary maximum buff to shield strength

Fields

Shields may be fitted in Armor or Option slots at no penalty. However, all stacked shields must be in one or the other.

Flash Field

Heavy Metal

Overshield - Temporary maximum buff to field strength

Scattering Field

Sword and Starship

Wave Motion - Expend field power for increased speed

Double Bubble - Force field upgrade twice as effective

Sensor Scattering - Self-penalizes sensors when active, penalty to being sniped

Cell Field

Infospace

Dynamic - Adjustable small buff to single arc

Stealthy - Does not increase Signature when active

Cycle-Intensive - Requires Cycles for dynamic field

Interference Field

Specialized

Super Shield - Extremely high field strength

No Gaps - 1/2 Move, ship cannot fire or perform launch/recovery operations while field is active.

Stasis Field

Specialized

Pause - Ship has a 90% save against all attacks

On Hold - Ship may not perform any actions or recharge weapons while field is active. May not operate for more than 2 consecutive turns.

Force Bubble

Add-On

Shield Bubble - Absorbs hits

Energy-Intensive - Requires Energy to recover bubble hits

Deflector Field

Add-On

Field Focus - Strong buff to single arc

Hardfields

Add-On

Resistent - Reduces the effective of shield-piercing attacks

Perimeter Fields

Add-On

Spaced Shielding - Double bonus against sub-scale and AOE weapons.

Leech Field

Add-On

Energy Leech - Energy attacks recover energy

Electronics

ECM

Jammers

Heavy Metal

Jam - Defend against

Fog Scatterer

Sword and Starship

Spread Fog - Generates temporary cloud of obscuring energetic fog

Power-Intensive - Requires Power to scatter fog

Cell Field

Infospace

Dynamic - Adjustable small buff to single arc

Stealthy - Does not increase Signature when active

Cycle-Intensive - Requires Cycles for dynamic field