Arumi/Ship Building
Ship Building
Proposed process for Arumi's ship building, based on Convention Book: Void Engineers (CBVE) pp 88-93 (The Shipyard: Voidcraft Creation)
Preparation
One important but mundane task that will occur frequently in the building of the space ship is the precision movement and welding of heavy materials. To assist with that, Arumi will create a means of producing matter movement and heating effects, with a rather distinctly unique focus. The focus will be in the form of a robot that looks like an R-series Astromech Droid.
So, the very first step will be to construct that robot. It won't have AI or anything like that. It will functionally be akin to a true real-world 'robot' used in manufacturing. It will just be a delivery mechanism for an etheric-manipulating core of sandwiched lenses of the type Arumi uses in everything else.
Once the robot focus is created, it can be used to hollow out a large expansion underground, adjacent to Arumi's existing lab.
The current lab will remain in place, but adjacent to it underground with be a much larger underground hangar, nicknamed the Shatterdome.
Mechanically this leads to a two step process:
1. Create the new focus (Crafts) 2. Upgrade Sanctum from 3 to 5
= Structural Capacity
CBVE p.90 describes step one of ship construction to be the creation of the "structural skeleton, internal spaces, and core hyper-engineered systems." That will also be Arumi's first step.
The Astromech Droid will be used to put up a 'mundane' structure. Then a new procedure, with a newly created Etheric manipulation lens core (unique focus) installed into the droid, will be used to reinforce the structure at the subatomic level.
Mechanically this leads to a five step process:
1. Create the mundane structure (Crafts) 2. Put together the ship's key systems (Hypertech) 3. Research materials science to ease the reinforcement process (Science with Applied Physics specialty) 4. Create the new focus (Crafts) 5. Reinforce everything (Arete)
Structural reinforcement procedure: Base difficulty 3, +4 due to Prime 4, Matter 4, +0 due to being assured coincidental from being in a Sanctum, -1 from unique focus, -1 to -3 from researching lore first, -1 from extra time spent on each step. Difficulty: 3 or 4 depending on success of research.
Target: A ship sized for 5 crew berths, no additional cargo or reinforcement, requires a total of 20 successes.
