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42 documents
Atomic Rockets, advdesign
Cited by Fire and damage control (Airlock discussion).
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Life support a venting compartment bleeds per tick | Fire and damage control | Airlock discussion | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, appmissiontable
2 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Change of speed for a hop between two berths at one body | Fuel and the torch drive | Terra-Luna space (the delta-v table, LEO to low lunar orbit) | DAnalogy |
| Change of speed to hold station at a body for a year | Fuel and the torch drive | Stationkeeping | DAnalogy |
Atomic Rockets, appworkedexample
Cited by Hull wear and repair (Structure).
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share of dry mass that is structure | Hull wear and repair | Structure and Specifications table | CDerived |
Atomic Rockets, astromilitary
Cited by Hostile fleets, gun stores and spread (Fleet Design); The deck fight (Naval Boarding); Ship vitals and fight penalties (the armored cruiser passage).
5 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Most ships in the captain's wing | The Newtonian fight | Fleet Capabilities (generally built around a six-ship squadron) | EAuthored |
| Largest navy squadron | Hostile fleets, gun stores and spread | Fleet Design | BSecondary |
| Largest band of pirates or privateers | Hostile fleets, gun stores and spread | Fleet Design | EAuthored |
| Seconds to move through one hatch into the next compartment | The deck fight | Naval Boarding | EAuthored |
| Which compartments each hatch joins | The deck fight | Naval Boarding | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, atomicfuel
Cited by The power model (Power reactors (decay heat)); Fuel and the torch drive (The Details).
No single number cites this document yet.
Atomic Rockets, basicdesign
Cited by Fire and damage control (Fire); Armor and the six faces (Section before 'Everything Is Connected'); Hold balance and the gimbal (Rocket Tumble); Hold balance and the gimbal (Saddle Truss).
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classes the first-response team can fight | Fire and damage control | Fire | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, celss
Cited by Life support, food and water (Controlled Ecological Life Support System (opening)).
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Most the crew and the modules can cut together | Life support, food and water | Controlled Ecological Life Support System (opening) | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, commdeck
Cited by Range bands and the joust (the speed of light passage).
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speed of light | Range bands and the joust | the speed of light passage | BSecondary |
Atomic Rockets, controldeck
Cited by The Newtonian fight (Moment of Inertia); Hold balance and the gimbal (Gimbaled Engines); Hold balance and the gimbal (Atomic Rocket Pilot Console); The bridge crew and standing orders (Moment of Inertia); The bridge crew and standing orders (Ship Control Officers, Combat Information Center).
4 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share of the main drive that each end's lateral jets push | The Newtonian fight | Moment of Inertia, Roger Wilcox example | CDerived |
| Half-angle a keel gun can lay off the bow, by mount size | Kinetic guns and point defense | Gimbaled engines and thrust vectoring | DAnalogy |
| Crew skill: seconds of warning, chance to miss a call, launch sighting, report precision, gun spread and helm turn | The bridge crew and standing orders | Ship Control Officers, Combat Information Center | EAuthored |
| The crew procedures: owner, what each raises and whether it acts or asks by default | The bridge crew and standing orders | Ship Control Officers, Combat Information Center | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, crew
Cited by Fire and damage control (Damage Control); Ship's organization and the Second (Command).
2 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hands a hull needs before it has a Second | Ship's organization and the Second | Command | EAuthored |
| The four bridge stations | Ship's organization and the Second | Eldraeverse Command Roster | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, emergency
Cited by Fire and damage control (Escape Craft, and again under damage control).
2 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hostile merchant lockers (level, competence) | Fire and damage control | Escape Craft, and again under damage control | EAuthored |
| Chance a destroyed reaction chamber scrams the reactor in a round | The power model | Nuclear Reactor Emergency SCRAM | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, enginelist
3 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meters in one astronomical unit (beacon range and distance code) | Fuel and the torch drive | the note that 1.0 astronomical units is defined as 149,597,870,700 meters | BSecondary |
| Meters in one astronomical unit (trip distance code) | Fuel and the torch drive | the note that 1.0 astronomical units is defined as 149,597,870,700 meters | BSecondary |
| Exhaust speed of the lateral jets, which burn water | The Newtonian fight | Nuclear Electrothermal (a resistojet gives an exhaust velocity of about 9,810 m/s) | CDerived |
Atomic Rockets, enginelist2
Cited by Fuel and the torch drive (Nuclear Salt Water (NSWR)).
3 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share of the drive's jet power kept as heat (the unit's size) | Heat and radiators | Nuclear Salt Water (NSWR) | EAuthored |
| Exhaust speed with no thruster grade fitted | Fuel and the torch drive | Nuclear Salt Water (NSWR) | EAuthored |
| Every rung of the exhaust ladder, no grade then TH-1 to TH-6 | Fuel and the torch drive | Nuclear Salt Water (NSWR) | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, enginelist3
Cited by Fuel and the torch drive (Epstein Drive).
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exhaust speed of the top rung (TH-6) | Fuel and the torch drive | Epstein Drive | BSecondary |
Atomic Rockets, heatrad
Cited by Heat and radiators (Radiator Details (Stefan-Boltzmann law)); Heat and radiators (Combat Radiators (the Achilles Heel passage)); Heat and radiators (Sikon, Combat Heat Sinks); Running dark (Radiator vulnerability (text beginning 'Solutions for reducing the vulnerability of radiators')); Ship vitals and fight penalties (Combat Radiators (the Achilles Heel passage)).
8 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share of the drive's full heat that whole fins shed | Heat and radiators | Mo/Li Heat Pipe (Radiator Types) | DAnalogy |
| Temperature rise the tank water may take before it boils | Heat and radiators | Combat Heat Sinks (the Attack Vector: Tactical water heat sink passage) | DAnalogy |
| Specific heat of water used for the tank | Heat and radiators | Combat Heat Sinks (the Attack Vector: Tactical water heat sink passage) | BSecondary |
| Energy to warm one kg of tank water to boiling and then boil it off | Heat and radiators | Combat Heat Sinks (the Attack Vector: Tactical water heat sink passage) | CDerived |
| Heat a molybdenum and lithium heat pipe radiator sheds, per square meter | Heat and radiators | Mo/Li Heat Pipe (Radiator Types) | BSecondary |
| Chance an ordinary hull hit also reaches a fin | Heat and radiators | Combat Radiators (the Achilles Heel passage) | EAuthored |
| Chance an enemy aims at the fins in one volley | Heat and radiators | Combat Radiators (the Achilles Heel passage) | EAuthored |
| Heat a fight adds while dark | Running dark | Radiator vulnerability | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, humanfactor
2 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acceleration a crew bears with no strain | Fuel and the torch drive | Table 1, gross effects of acceleration forces | BSecondary |
| Fatigue a crew gains per day for each unit of acceleration above the no-strain line | Fuel and the torch drive | the acceleration passage (the human body only can take 2-3 gees) | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, infrastructure
3 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ceres distance from the sun | Mining the belt | Solar Power Stations table | BSecondary |
| Vesta distance from the sun | Mining the belt | Solar Power Stations table | BSecondary |
| Pallas distance from the sun | Mining the belt | Solar Power Stations table | BSecondary |
Atomic Rockets, landing
Cited by Atmospheric entry and the descent corridor (Aerobraking Landing).
4 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base chance that a round of the dive goes clean | Atmospheric entry and the descent corridor | Aerobraking Landing | EAuthored |
| Chance bonus of a powered descent | Atmospheric entry and the descent corridor | Aerobraking Landing | EAuthored |
| Chance penalty of an aerobraked descent | Atmospheric entry and the descent corridor | Aerobraking Landing | EAuthored |
| Share of a missed aerobrake that lands long | Atmospheric entry and the descent corridor | Aerobraking Landing | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, lifesupport
Cited by Fire and damage control (Atmosphere discussion near the oxygen consumption figures); Life support, food and water (Introduction (person-day accounting)); Life support, food and water (Eeking Out); Life support, food and water (Food (USS Wyoming figures)); Life support, food and water (alternate figures from the NC State document); Life support, food and water (Breathing Mix); Life support, food and water (carbon dioxide in the air (percent list)); Life support, food and water (Water).
12 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Density of air | Fire and damage control | Air density note (1.225 kg per cubic meter) | BSecondary |
| Mix of the refill gas: nitrogen and oxygen by share of volume, with molar masses | Fire and damage control | Space Shuttle atmosphere (79 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen) | BSecondary |
| Gun sizes whose hole can empty a compartment at once | Fire and damage control | Explosive decompression (the 126 millisecond passage) | DAnalogy |
| Recycling draw for each person aboard | Running dark | Water (TransHab water management subsystem) | CDerived |
| Carbon dioxide a person adds to the air, per day, as a volume | Running dark | Carbon dioxide levels (0.998 kilograms a day) | CDerived |
| Share of the cabin air in carbon dioxide at which the crew turns drowsy | Running dark | Carbon dioxide levels (0.04, 1, 3, 5 percent) | BSecondary |
| Food one person eats in a day | Life support, food and water | Food (USS Wyoming figures) | DAnalogy |
| Water one person uses in a day | Life support, food and water | Eeking Out | DAnalogy |
| Morale each hand loses per day with no water | Life support, food and water | Eeking Out | EAuthored |
| Life support integrity at which the air fails | Life support, food and water | carbon dioxide in the air (percent list) | EAuthored |
| Food one hull hand eats in a day (the hull sizing) | Life support, food and water | Food (USS Wyoming figures) | DAnalogy |
| Water one hull hand uses in a day (the hull sizing) | Life support, food and water | Eeking Out | DAnalogy |
Atomic Rockets, mining
Cited by Mining the belt (the table of the largest asteroids); Mining the belt (the text under the table of the largest asteroids); Mining the belt (the list of asteroid types (C, S, M, D)); Terrain, cover and harbors (Asteroid Mining).
3 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ceres: size in km and mass in kg | Mining the belt | table of the largest asteroids | BSecondary |
| Pallas: size in km and mass in kg | Mining the belt | table of the largest asteroids | BSecondary |
| Vesta: size in km and mass in kg | Mining the belt | table of the largest asteroids | BSecondary |
Atomic Rockets, misconceptions
Cited by The Newtonian fight (There Is No Friction In Space); The Newtonian fight (Rockets Are Not Fighter Planes); The Newtonian fight (Rockets Are Not Arrows).
No single number cites this document yet.
Atomic Rockets, pirate
Cited by The Newtonian fight (Intercepting the target); The Newtonian fight (Approach); Hailing, boarding and prize law (Piracy).
7 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Range inside which a pirate can put its crew across | The Newtonian fight | Intercepting the target | EAuthored |
| Time the match must hold before the boarders are across | The Newtonian fight | Approach | EAuthored |
| Cargo a refusal destroys outside a lost fight, as a share of the hold's value, when the Second expects to lose | Hailing, boarding and prize law | Approach | EAuthored |
| Cargo a refusal destroys outside a lost fight, as a share of the hold's value, when the Second calls it even | Hailing, boarding and prize law | Approach | EAuthored |
| Cargo a refusal destroys outside a lost fight, as a share of the hold's value, when the Second expects to win | Hailing, boarding and prize law | Approach | EAuthored |
| Range inside which a raider can board | Hailing, boarding and prize law | Intercepting the target | EAuthored |
| Time the match must hold before the boarders are across | Hailing, boarding and prize law | Intercepting the target | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, power
Cited by The power model (Fission power (SAFE-400 heatpipe reactor)); The power model (batteries table (Lithium-Ion rechargeables)).
3 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bank size in rounds of the hull's own rated reactor output | The power model | batteries table (Lithium-Ion rechargeables) | EAuthored |
| Share of the plant's thermal power that becomes electricity | The power model | Space Nuclear Power Program (SAFE-400 and Prometheus) | BSecondary |
| Reactor plant's conversion: heat on the loop is each watt drawn divided by this | Running dark | Space Nuclear Power Program (Prometheus and SAFE-400 figures) | BSecondary |
Atomic Rockets, prelimnotes
Cited by Fire and damage control (A story excerpt, not a measured claim); Mining the belt (the asteroid-belt trope (Annoying Trope #1)); Terrain, cover and harbors (Science-Fictional Shibboleths).
2 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Real spacing of bodies over 1 km, as the game records it | Mining the belt | Annoying Trope #1, the asteroid belt | BSecondary |
| Radius from a field center within which real members and mined rocks lie | Terrain, cover and harbors | Science-Fictional Shibboleths | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, radiation
Cited by Radiation dose (Galactic Cosmic Radiation (Curiosity measurement)); Radiation dose (Radiation levels on the way to Mars); Radiation dose (Solar storms); Radiation dose (Space Radiation Risks: GCR vs SFE); Radiation dose (Gradual SPEs (NASA text)); Radiation dose (Trapped Radiation (Jupiter dose table)); Radiation dose (Chronic Radiation Syndrome Chart); Radiation dose (Acute Radiation Syndrome Chart); Radiation dose (Acute and chronic exposure (paragraph beginning 'There are two kinds of radiation exposure')).
19 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open-space dose with no shielding | Radiation dose | Galactic Cosmic Radiation (the Curiosity passage) | BSecondary |
| Shielding that halves the cosmic-ray background | Radiation dose | Trapped Radiation (the Jupiter shielding table), and Effectiveness of Shielding Materials for the 15 to 20 grams of water | BSecondary |
| Shielding that halves a solar storm dose | Radiation dose | Effectiveness of Shielding Materials | CDerived |
| Solar events a year | Radiation dose | Solar Energetic Particles (the gradual SPE passage) | BSecondary |
| Years in one solar cycle | Radiation dose | Galactic Cosmic Radiation (the Curiosity passage) | BSecondary |
| Chance of an event on any one day | Radiation dose | Solar Energetic Particles (the gradual SPE passage) | CDerived |
| Worst event, bare hull at 1 AU, once a cycle | Radiation dose | Effectiveness of Shielding Materials | BSecondary |
| Annual limit the screens quote | Radiation dose | Trapped Radiation (the Jupiter dose table), and the Chronic Radiation Syndrome Chart for the adult annual limit | BSecondary |
| Five-year limit the screens quote | Radiation dose | Trapped Radiation (the Jupiter dose table) | BSecondary |
| Lifetime dose at which a hand asks to go ashore | Radiation dose | Observation (the ESA limit passage) | BSecondary |
| Acute dose at which a hand is radiation sick | Radiation dose | Acute Radiation Syndrome Chart | BSecondary |
| Acute dose the body clears each day | Radiation dose | Acute Radiation Syndrome Chart | CDerived |
| Acute dose bands (floor, grade, term) | Radiation dose | Acute Radiation Syndrome Chart | DAnalogy |
| Io belt dose (read by getbeltdoseforvisit) | Radiation dose | Trapped Radiation (the Jupiter dose table) | BSecondary |
| Europa belt dose | Radiation dose | Trapped Radiation (the Jupiter dose table) | BSecondary |
| Ganymede belt dose | Radiation dose | Trapped Radiation (the Jupiter dose table) | BSecondary |
| Callisto belt dose | Radiation dose | Trapped Radiation (the Jupiter dose table) | BSecondary |
| Shielding of the RS-6 module | Radiation dose | Observation (the storm shelter passage) | BSecondary |
| Areal density of real shelters that the module screen compares a number to | Radiation dose | the passage comparing suit, Apollo, Shuttle, ISS and lunar base shielding | BSecondary |
Atomic Rockets, realdesigns3
2 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air plant draw for each person aboard (never shed) | Running dark | HOPE (BNTR) crew vehicle, power budget | DAnalogy |
| Crew services draw for each person aboard | Running dark | HOPE (BNTR) crew vehicle, power budget | DAnalogy |
Atomic Rockets, rescue
Cited by Salvage and distress (Introduction).
3 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hours to move cargo mass between two hulls | Hailing, boarding and prize law | Introduction | EAuthored |
| Reach of a rescue cutter from its base | Salvage and distress | Introduction | EAuthored |
| Burn of a rescue cutter | Salvage and distress | Introduction | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, sidearmintro
Cited by Kinetic guns and point defense (Which Gun Is Better?); Hostile fleets, gun stores and spread (Which Gun Is Better?).
2 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seconds of fire a cartridge gun's barrel takes | Heat and radiators | the paragraph on guns heating in vacuum | EAuthored |
| Seconds a cartridge gun's barrel needs to cool one second of fire | Heat and radiators | the paragraph on guns heating in vacuum | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, slowerlight3
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share of the plate each face gets, in the same order (bow heaviest) | Armor and the six faces | Dust and near-light travel passage | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, spacegunconvent
Cited by Armor and the six faces (Kinetics: rods and obliquity); Armor and the six faces (Whipple shield and standoff); The power model (railgun efficiency); Kinetic guns and point defense (Equations (Robinson's First Law of Space Combat)); Kinetic guns and point defense (Equations (hypervelocity impact)); Kinetic guns and point defense (Railguns); Kinetic guns and point defense (Coilgun (Ferromagnetic projectiles)); Kinetic guns and point defense (Kinetic Kill Weapons); Kinetic guns and point defense (Equations (Combustion Light Gas Gun and ETC guns)); Kinetic guns and point defense (Equations (seekers)); Range bands and the joust (Railguns).
10 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angles the helm can turn a face to a contact | Armor and the six faces | Kinetics: rods and obliquity | EAuthored |
| Muzzle speed of a coilgun | Armor and the six faces | Coilguns | EAuthored |
| Muzzle speed of a railgun | Armor and the six faces | Railguns | BSecondary |
| Energy of one power point | The power model | Navy railgun comment: full scale weapon designed to use 64 megajoules | DAnalogy |
| Power a rail firing draws, by gun size (a coil draws a share of it) | The power model | Navy railgun comment: full scale weapon designed to use 64 megajoules | EAuthored |
| Coil firing's draw as a share of a rail's | The power model | Railgun and coilgun efficiency | DAnalogy |
| Muzzle speed by mechanism | Kinetic guns and point defense | Railguns | EAuthored |
| Power of closing speed that scales a round's damage | Kinetic guns and point defense | Robinson's First Law of Space Warfare paragraph | BSecondary |
| Spread added by a rail at the end of its life, as a multiple of its spread when new | Hostile fleets, gun stores and spread | US Navy Railguns | EAuthored |
| Outer edges of the close band and the mid band | Range bands and the joust | Railguns | CDerived |
Atomic Rockets, spacegunconvent2
Cited by Kinetic guns and point defense (Equations (kinetic particle attacks, in the laser cannon section)).
3 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Density of each plate material | Armor and the six faces | Radiation shielding materials passage: iron at 7.84 g/cm^3 for steel, tungsten at 19.3 g/cm^3 | EAuthored |
| Density of rolled steel plate | Armor and the six faces | Radiation shielding materials, iron at 7.84 g/cm^3 to simulate steel | BSecondary |
| Multiplier on the radiator clip chance for a canister cloud | Kinetic guns and point defense | Equations, kinetic particle attacks (laser cannon section) | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, spacegunintro
Cited by Kinetic guns and point defense (Introduction).
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pellets in one canister shell, by mount size | Kinetic guns and point defense | Introduction | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, spacewardefense
Cited by Armor and the six faces (Section 10: Armor, Damage and Survivability, Whipple shield passage); Armor and the six faces (Section 10, standoff and Orbital Debris citation); Armor and the six faces (Section 10, long-rod formula and Los Alamos rule); Armor and the six faces (Section 10, armor ladder); Armor and the six faces (Section 10, defense against low-mass/high-speed projectiles); Armor and the six faces (Opening fiction passage on a ship's hull); Kinetic guns and point defense (Kinetic PD); Kinetic guns and point defense (Laser vs. Missile); Kinetic guns and point defense (Armor).
20 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pools along one side of a face | Armor and the six faces | Section 10: Armor, Damage and Survivability | EAuthored |
| Impact speed where a plate's hardness starts to fade | Armor and the six faces | Section 10: Armor, Damage and Survivability, Whipple shield passage | BSecondary |
| Thickness of one point of plate depth | Armor and the six faces | Section 10: Armor, Damage and Survivability | EAuthored |
| Most a plate reads as leaning, to keep the line-of-sight factor finite | Armor and the six faces | Section 10: General Armor Tactics, sloped armor | EAuthored |
| Ceiling a full replate costs, by material | Armor and the six faces | Section 10, armor ladder | EAuthored |
| Warship hull slopes by face | Armor and the six faces | Section 10: General Armor Tactics, sloped armor | EAuthored |
| Blunt hull slopes by face (carriers, troop transports, multirole) | Armor and the six faces | Section 10: General Armor Tactics, sloped armor | EAuthored |
| Freighter hull slopes by face | Armor and the six faces | Section 10: Armor, Damage and Survivability | EAuthored |
| Standard rolled steel plate, rating | Armor and the six faces | Section 10, armor ladder | EAuthored |
| Cargo space wrecked per point of a round's penetration | Armor and the six faces | Whipple shield (the stuffed Whipple passage) | EAuthored |
| Share of the fuel tank a wrecked feed line loses per travel day | Fuel and the torch drive | the passage on a projectile hitting a tank of fluid | EAuthored |
| Share of the fuel tank a wrecked feed line loses per combat round | Fuel and the torch drive | the passage on a projectile hitting a tank of fluid | EAuthored |
| Power of closing speed that scales a round's penetration | Kinetic guns and point defense | Section 10: Armor, Damage and Survivability, Tate formula and crater passage | CDerived |
| Impact speed above which plate hardness fades | Kinetic guns and point defense | Section 10: Armor, Damage and Survivability, Whipple shield passage | BSecondary |
| Rounds one point defense mount can engage in a second | Kinetic guns and point defense | Kinetic PD | EAuthored |
| A round is engaged by point defense once it is this close to arriving | Kinetic guns and point defense | Kinetic PD | EAuthored |
| Reach of point defense against a drone | Kinetic guns and point defense | Kinetic PD | EAuthored |
| Highest chance one mount stops a drone on one try | Kinetic guns and point defense | Kinetic PD | EAuthored |
| Sleek hull slopes by face | Hull classes, sizes and slots | Section 10: General Armor Tactics, sloped armor | EAuthored |
| Square hull slopes by face | Hull classes, sizes and slots | Section 10: General Armor Tactics, sloped armor | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, spacewardetect
Cited by Running dark (What If I Run Silent And Cold?); Running dark (Surely Sheer Distance Will Hide Engine Burns); Running dark (Section 3: Stealth Problems Overview); Running dark (There Ain't No Stealth In Space).
6 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thermal signature of a light, medium and heavy craft with the drive off | Running dark | What If I Run Silent And Cold? | EAuthored |
| Signature added for each m/s^2 of fitted acceleration | Running dark | Surely Sheer Distance Will Hide Engine Burns | EAuthored |
| Share of the baseline a dark hull keeps | Running dark | What If I Run Silent And Cold? | EAuthored |
| Share of the day's contact chance left while dark | Running dark | There Ain't No Stealth In Space | EAuthored |
| Heat the loop holds before the hull cooks (getheatcapacity returns this for every hull) | Running dark | Section 3: Stealth Problems Overview | EAuthored |
| Range past which active returns are too faint to image | The observer and ship condition | What If I Run Silent And Cold? | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, spacewarintro
Cited by The Newtonian fight (4. Everything Happens Super Fast); The Newtonian fight (1. Space Is Really Big).
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time a crew needs to see a round before it can start a dodge | The Newtonian fight | 4. Everything Happens Super Fast | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, spacewarship
Cited by Heat and radiators (the coilgun in the example design); The power model (Space Warships: Power Generation, Waste Heat, and Firepower).
2 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heat one firing puts in a gun's sink, by size | Heat and radiators | the coilgun in the example design | EAuthored |
| Firings a rail gun's sink takes before the gun must wait | Heat and radiators | the coilgun in the example design | DAnalogy |
Atomic Rockets, spacewarshipart
Cited by Heat and radiators (Heat Radiators and the multi-mode reactor passage); The power model (multi-mode reactor for burst power).
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heat one active cooling dump vents | Heat and radiators | Heat Radiators and the multi-mode reactor passage | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, spacewartactic
Cited by The Newtonian fight (No "stop-onna-dime"); The Newtonian fight (Hard to hit distant moving object); The Newtonian fight (The Trumpet Bell Effect); The Newtonian fight (Tactical Effects).
4 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time between side changes in a weave | The Newtonian fight | The Trumpet Bell Effect | EAuthored |
| Angle of each wing ship's bearing off the leader's, about the target, in the crossfire formation | The Newtonian fight | Three-Dimensional Thinking | EAuthored |
| Furthest range band each mechanism can shoot at | Kinetic guns and point defense | the range and fire control discussion | EAuthored |
| Point defense strength by range band (close, mid, long) | Kinetic guns and point defense | plenty of time to shoot down incoming projectiles | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, starshipowner
Cited by Hull wear and repair (cost of running a cargo starship); Hull wear and repair (maintenance remarks).
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maintenance owed per travel day, as a share of hull upkeep value | Hull wear and repair | cost of running a cargo starship | DAnalogy |
Atomic Rockets, thermodynamics
Cited by Heat and radiators (the heat radiator Achilles heel passage and the thermocouple answer).
No single number cites this document yet.
Atomic Rockets, torchships
Cited by Fuel and the torch drive (Introduction); Fuel and the torch drive (Torchship Performance (Rocketpunk Manifesto, On Torchships)); Fuel and the torch drive (Constant-acceleration Delta-V); Fuel and the torch drive (Low Gear / High Gear (Robinson and Campbell)).
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water in a full tank, as a share of the hull's dry mass | Fuel and the torch drive | Torchship Performance (Rocketpunk Manifesto, On Torchships) | EAuthored |
Atomic Rockets, usefultables
Cited by Terrain, cover and harbors (Rho (density) Table); The observer and ship condition (The Boom Table).
2 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bulk density of an asteroid, for a body with no published mass | Terrain, cover and harbors | Rho (density) Table | BSecondary |
| Wavelength of the light a passive look uses | The observer and ship condition | The Boom Table | BSecondary |
Public documents
31 documents
46 CFR parts 35, 95, 97 and 199: US merchant vessel fire and emergency rules
The link is part 35 of the 1 October 2025 edition on govinfo.gov. Parts 95, 97 and 199 are PDFs in the same edition (CFR-2025-title46-vol4-part95, CFR-2025-title46-vol4-part97 and CFR-2025-title46-vol7-part199, under govinfo.gov/content/pkg/).
Cited by Fire and damage control (46 CFR 199.80(b) and 97.55-1).
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ticks the crew takes to clear a space before it is vented | Fire and damage control | 95.16-45(a)(1) | DAnalogy |
49 CFR 172.101 and 173: US hazardous materials classes (the UN classes the IMDG Code uses)
The link is part 173 of the 2025 edition on govinfo.gov. Part 172 (the hazardous materials table) is in the same volume.
Cited by Fire and damage control (49 CFR 173.2, 173.120, 173.127).
2 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share of the hold's room a cargo fire burns per tick, per level | Fire and damage control | 49 CFR 173.2, 173.120, 173.127 | EAuthored |
| Ticks between growth steps for a volatile cargo fire | Fire and damage control | 49 CFR 173.2, 173.120, 173.127 | EAuthored |
ACP 125(G), Communications Instructions: Radiotelephone Procedures
The CCEB publishes no public copy. A university hosts the 2016 text, and the pages do not link it.
Cited by Radio voice (Paragraphs 520, 522, 536 and 901, Annex A to chapter 3, chapter 7 example C).
3 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| The register each flag speaks in | Radio voice | What the document says | EAuthored |
| The four stand-down hails of the TACTICAL register | Radio voice | Paragraphs 520, 522, 536 and 901 | EAuthored |
| The four opening engagement calls of the TACTICAL register | Radio voice | Where the source is silent | EAuthored |
Apollo-Salyut/Soyuz docking: the speed and alignment a docking mechanism must take
2 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Relative speed a boarding needs | The Newtonian fight | Initial-impact criteria: axial closing velocity 0.05 to 0.3 m/s | DAnalogy |
| Largest relative speed a boarding match allows | Hailing, boarding and prize law | Initial-impact criteria: axial closing velocity 0.05 to 0.3 m/s | DAnalogy |
BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses: gunshot wounds, days away from work
The link is the BLS index of the yearly tables. Each table is a PDF behind it.
Cited by Wounds, medicine and salvage after a fight (Gunshot wounds, nature code 134).
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Days off duty after a deck fight | Wounds, medicine and salvage after a fight | Gunshot wounds, nature code 134, days away from work | CDerived |
IAMSAR Manual, volumes I and III (2016), with SOLAS V/33
No free copy exists. The link is the IMO page that lists the manual for sale. ICAO sells it too. The pages cite the 2016 volumes I and III, and the current edition is 2025.
Cited by Salvage and distress (Volume III section 1 and appendix A (SOLAS V/33.1, 33.2), section 2 figures 2-3 and 2-4, and p. 4-7).
2 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contact chance added each day for the rest of the leg after you relay | Salvage and distress | Volume III figures 2-3 and 2-4 | EAuthored |
| Days a berth takes to hear a fuel beacon and ready a hull | Salvage and distress | Volume III section 1 | EAuthored |
IHO Hydrographic Dictionary (S-32): relative bearing terms
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bearing sectors in a seaman's words: ahead, bow, beam, quarter and astern | The bridge crew and standing orders | entries on the beam, on the bow, on the quarter | BSecondary |
International Convention on Salvage, 1989
The link is the UK Treaty Series copy the pages cite. The IMO keeps the convention's own page at imo.org.
Cited by Hull wear and repair (What the game does with it); Salvage and distress (Articles 1(a), 4(1), 12, 13, 16, 18 and 19).
5 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Condition at which a hulk can fly | Hull wear and repair | What the document says | EAuthored |
| Capture bonus on a boarded wreck, as a share of the kill bounty (a game number, not salvage law) | Salvage and distress | Article 13(1), criteria for the reward | EAuthored |
| Share of the drawn reward the stranded crew actually pays | Salvage and distress | Article 16, and Article 13(1) | EAuthored |
| Lowest base reward drawn for answering a call, before the body's danger scaling | Salvage and distress | Article 13(1), criteria for the reward | EAuthored |
| Highest base reward drawn for answering a call, before the body's danger scaling | Salvage and distress | Article 13(1), criteria for the reward | EAuthored |
JPL Small-Body Database: semi-major axes of the named asteroids
The link is the JPL lookup page. The figures came from its API, ssd-api.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.api.
3 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hygiea distance from the sun | Mining the belt | orbit elements of 10 Hygiea | APrimary |
| Which belt each named mid-size body belongs to | Terrain, cover and harbors | semi-major axes of the eight mid-size bodies | CDerived |
| Which belt each of the four giants belongs to | Terrain, cover and harbors | semi-major axes of Vesta, Pallas, Ceres and Hygiea | CDerived |
Liquid-metal coolant leaks: what starts them and what puts them out
This page cites three documents. The link is the first, the NRC report. The other two are the JAEA-Review 2010-036 report on Monju (jopss.jaea.go.jp) and the JAEA R&D Review 2011 section 12-7 (rdreview.jaea.go.jp).
2 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chance a lithium loop leaks, per point of containment lost, while the plant runs | Fire and damage control | NRC report 3.4 item 6: BN-600, 30 sodium leaks in 15 years | DAnalogy |
| Chance a lithium loop leaks while it runs past its heat points | Fire and damage control | NRC report 3.4 item 6: BN-600, 30 sodium leaks in 15 years | DAnalogy |
Lloyd's Standard Form of Salvage Agreement (Lloyd's Open Form, LOF 2020)
Cited by Salvage and distress (Heading and clauses A, G and K).
No single number cites this document yet.
Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation: STCW, MET, Human Resources and Crew Manning
No free copy exists. The link is the publisher's catalog page.
Cited by Ship's organization and the Second (PDF pages 57, 75, 137, 145 and 146).
3 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merchant grade of each hire tier | Ship's organization and the Second | PDF pages 145 and 146; Where the source is silent | EAuthored |
| Merchant grade of each Commander tier | Ship's organization and the Second | PDF pages 145 and 146; Where the source is silent | EAuthored |
| The merchant rank ladder: grade, title, pay multiple and head share | Ship's organization and the Second | Ranks and ratings, PDF pp.75, 145 and 148 | DAnalogy |
Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (ILO)
The link is the ILO's own text. The pages cite the 2006 text as adopted, from an unofficial copy at the National University of Singapore.
2 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hours in one working shift | Hull wear and repair | Guideline B2.2.2, para 1(a) | APrimary |
| Hours in one dock gang shift | Hull wear and repair | Guideline B2.2.2, para 1(a) | APrimary |
MGN 71 (M): Musters, drills, on-board training and instructions, and Decision Support Systems
The link is the 2014 text the pages cite. GOV.UK has since replaced it with MGN 71 (M+F) Amendment 1, of 2025.
Cited by Fire and damage control (Sections 2.1, 2.4, 7.5, 7.10).
No single number cites this document yet.
NASA-STD-3001 Volume 2: crew health, the habitable atmosphere and pressure change
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Area of a person a round can strike | Armor and the six faces | Appendix F, F.4, Table 44, body surface area | CDerived |
NavWeaps naval gun pages: rates of fire, round mass, slew rates, drums
This page cites ten NavWeaps pages. The link is the first, the Phalanx page. The others sit under navweaps.com/Weapons/ and are named on the page.
9 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muzzle speed of an autocannon | Armor and the six faces | Muzzle velocity in the Phalanx, Goalkeeper, Bofors and Millennium tables; Atomic Rockets chemical gun paragraph | BSecondary |
| Mass of one round, by mount size | Kinetic guns and point defense | Projectile weights in the Phalanx, Bofors, 76 mm and Mark 71 tables | BSecondary |
| Speed a turret traverses, by mount size | Kinetic guns and point defense | Slew rates in the tables for Phalanx, Bofors, Millennium, 76 mm, Mark 45 and Mark 71 | DAnalogy |
| Point defense rounds per second, by caliber | Kinetic guns and point defense | Rate of fire in the Phalanx, Goalkeeper, Millennium and Bofors tables | BSecondary |
| Seconds of fire in a point defense mount's own drum | Kinetic guns and point defense | Drum capacity in the Phalanx and Goalkeeper tables | CDerived |
| Seconds of fire in one point defense engagement | Kinetic guns and point defense | Burst length in the Phalanx text and the Goalkeeper text | CDerived |
| Rounds a second an autocannon streams (the base rate) | Hostile fleets, gun stores and spread | Rate of fire in the 40 mm / 70 Bofors table | BSecondary |
| Rounds a second a streamed autocannon fires, by size | Hostile fleets, gun stores and spread | Rates of fire in the Bofors 40 mm, 76 mm, Mark 45 and Mark 71 tables | BSecondary |
| Seconds between rounds for the two heaviest autocannon sizes | Hostile fleets, gun stores and spread | Rates of fire in the Mark 45, Mark 71 and AGS tables | DAnalogy |
NSTM chapter 555, volume 1: Surface Ship Firefighting (an EXTRACT of 6 pages)
The chapter carries distribution statement C. No public official copy exists, so the pages do not link one.
Cited by Fire and damage control (555-8.14, lithium battery fires).
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ticks a vented hold stays open while its cargo cools | Fire and damage control | Post fire actions: post-fire ordnance cooling, minimum 15 minutes (555-8.13.9) | DAnalogy |
Reefer carriage: how long refrigerated cargo keeps without power
This page cites two sources. The link is the Swedish Club guide. The other is PIL's cargo handling page (pilnigeria.com/products-services/reefer-services/cargo-handling/).
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hours a sealed reefer keeps its cargo without power, chilled and frozen | Fire and damage control | BSecondary |
Reefer container power draw
This page cites two sources. The link is the Container Handbook section on power use. The other is the DSV reefer container sizes page (dsv.com).
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reefer draw for each tonne of cold cargo | Running dark | actual power consumption of reefer containers | CDerived |
Standard Organization and Regulations of the U.S. Navy (SORM)
Cited by The power model (6.4.1 e, engineer officer, item 7); Hailing, boarding and prize law (Section 6.3.21 d(1), e(1), f(1), f(6)); Ship's organization and the Second (Sections 3.1.2, 3.5, 3.11, 3.14.1, 3.15, 3.16, 3.17, 3.22 and 4.15.3).
8 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chance a hostile at its break point answers a demand to surrender, each roll | Hailing, boarding and prize law | Where the source is silent (Surrender) | EAuthored |
| The nine departments | Ship's organization and the Second | Sections 3.5, 3.11, 3.14, 3.14.1, 3.15, 3.16, 3.17, 3.18, 3.22 and 3.23 | DAnalogy |
| The department that mans each bridge post | Ship's organization and the Second | 3.11; Where the source is silent | EAuthored |
| Command grade of the ship's own berth, by hands aboard (up to this many hands) | Ship's organization and the Second | Where the source is silent (A paygrade for any billet) | EAuthored |
| Navy head and rating of each department, with their grades | Ship's organization and the Second | Sections 3.11, 3.14.1, 3.15, 3.16, 3.17, 3.22; Where the source is silent | EAuthored |
| Size of a leased navy hull's crew, by hull tier | Ship's organization and the Second | Chapter 3 | EAuthored |
| The order in which the departments of a navy crew are staffed | Ship's organization and the Second | Sections 3.5 to 3.23 | EAuthored |
| The navy rank ladder: grade, title, pay multiple and head share | Ship's organization and the Second | Chapter 3 | EAuthored |
Stowage factor: hold volume per tonne of cargo
This page cites two sources. The link is the Wikipedia article. The other is the Wartsila encyclopedia entry (wartsila.com/encyclopedia/term/stowage-factor).
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stowage factor: cubic meters of hold per tonne of cargo | Armor and the six faces | table of typical stowage factors | BSecondary |
Survival without water and food: the rule of threes
This page cites two sources. The link is the Wikipedia article. The other is a Scientific American article (scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-can-a-person-sur/).
2 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dry days of water before harm starts | Life support, food and water | Wikipedia, Rule of threes (survival), the rule and the Water section | BSecondary |
| Dry days of food before harm starts | Life support, food and water | Scientific American, survival without food; Wikipedia, Rule of threes | DAnalogy |
The Commander's Handbook on the Law of Naval Operations (NWP 1-14M), 1995 edition
The Navy has no public copy of the 1995 edition. The link is the July 2007 edition on govinfo.gov, which replaced it. Section numbers differ. The pages cite the 1995 copy at fichl.org.
Cited by Hailing, boarding and prize law (Sections 3.4, 3.11.5.2, 7.6.1 and 7.10); Fleet action, breaking off and surrender (6.2.5 War Crimes, item 12); Fleet action, breaking off and surrender (7.10 Prize).
7 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heat gained for refusing a lawful inspection | Hailing, boarding and prize law | 3.11.5; Where the source is silent | EAuthored |
| Fine on contraband found in a search, as a share of its value | Hailing, boarding and prize law | 7.10; Where the source is silent | EAuthored |
| Capture bonus on a boarded wreck, as a share of the kill bounty | Hailing, boarding and prize law | 7.10; Where the source is silent (Payment to a captor) | EAuthored |
| Value of a captured crew, as a share of the surrendered hull's catalog price | Hailing, boarding and prize law | 3.5.3.1; Where the source is silent | EAuthored |
| Share of its hull a captured hull is left with | Fleet action, breaking off and surrender | 7.10 Prize | EAuthored |
| Base chance a lawful hull believes the captain's feigned surrender | Fleet action, breaking off and surrender | 6.2.5 War Crimes, item 12 | EAuthored |
| Chance a hostile feigns surrender when it would gain from it | Fleet action, breaking off and surrender | 6.2.5 War Crimes, item 12 | EAuthored |
UK MCA, MSIS003 Part 7: Electrical Equipment and Installations
Cited by The power model (7.6, Load shedding); Hold balance and the gimbal (7.6 (essential services)).
4 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Order the rule sheds fight loads in, first shed first | The power model | 7.6, Load shedding | EAuthored |
| Order the rule sheds voyage loads in, first shed first | The power model | 7.6, Load shedding | EAuthored |
| The three fight bills: order the rule sheds loads in | The power model | 7.6 essential loads | EAuthored |
| Bill a hull follows when its captain has not chosen | The power model | 7.6 essential loads | EAuthored |
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), 1982
Cited by Hailing, boarding and prize law (Articles 33, 105, 106, 107, 110 and 111).
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chance that a cornered civilian master hands over cargo, for a lane with nobody named on it | Hailing, boarding and prize law | Articles 100 to 111 | EAuthored |
US Navy training manual, "Damage Control" (chapter 12)
Cited by Fire and damage control (All hands, 12-1); Fire and damage control (Rapid response team, 12-8); Fire and damage control (Fire, 12-18 to 12-21); Fire and damage control (Figure 12-9, the four classes, 12-22); Life support, food and water (What it says (General quarters, 12-8) and Life support and fire (12-14 to 12-24)); Hull wear and repair (What it says (repair lockers) and Where the source is silent).
22 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chance one interior breach starts a fire | Fire and damage control | Fire, 12-18 to 12-21 | EAuthored |
| Hull a fire burns per tick, per level, as a share of the hull's maximum health | Fire and damage control | Fire, 12-18 | EAuthored |
| Highest level a fire reaches | Fire and damage control | Fire, 12-18 to 12-21 | EAuthored |
| Ticks an unfought fire waits before it grows a level | Fire and damage control | Fire, 12-18 | EAuthored |
| Share of the hands in the repair lockers, by locker level | Fire and damage control | Repair lockers, 12-7; general quarters, 12-8 | EAuthored |
| Hostile warship lockers (level, competence) | Fire and damage control | Repair lockers, 12-7 | EAuthored |
| Hostile raider lockers (level, competence) | Fire and damage control | Where the source is silent: merchant ships | EAuthored |
| Aim lost per step of hands in the lockers | Fire and damage control | Where the source is silent: costs | EAuthored |
| Share of the reactor top-up lost for each share of hands in the lockers | Fire and damage control | Where the source is silent: costs | EAuthored |
| Most hands the first-response team can send | Fire and damage control | Teams outside the lockers, rapid response team, 12-8 | EAuthored |
| Ticks the first-response team works a new fire or vent | Fire and damage control | Teams outside the lockers, rapid response team, 12-8 | EAuthored |
| Pace of every hand against a live electrical fire | Fire and damage control | Figure 12-9, the four classes, 12-22 | EAuthored |
| Burn tier by fire class (multiplier on the hull burn) | Fire and damage control | Figure 12-9, the four classes, 12-22 | EAuthored |
| Life support a fire takes per tick, per level, by class | Fire and damage control | Fire, 12-18 to 12-21 | EAuthored |
| Where each class can start (class and weight out of 100, by place) | Fire and damage control | Figure 12-9, the four classes, 12-22 | EAuthored |
| Ticks a de-energized space stays dark | Fire and damage control | Figure 12-9, the four classes, 12-22 | EAuthored |
| Aim lost while a passageway is dark | Fire and damage control | Figure 12-9, the four classes, 12-22 | EAuthored |
| Ticks before a fallback party takes over the lending after the Damage Control head goes down | Fire and damage control | All hands, 12-1 | EAuthored |
| Fire classes that need live power to start | Fire and damage control | Figure 12-9, the four classes (12-22) | DAnalogy |
| Fire classes from the least to the worst | Fire and damage control | Figure 12-9, the four classes (12-22) | EAuthored |
| Fatigue each hand gains per travel day at GENERAL QUARTERS | Life support, food and water | What it says (General quarters, 12-8) | EAuthored |
| Yard price of one hull point, as a share of hull price over its points | Hull wear and repair | Where the source is silent | EAuthored |
WHO International Health Regulations (2005), third edition
The link is the WHO page for the third edition. The WHO has since published amendments, in 2022 and 2024.
Cited by Records, bail and inspection (Article 23.1).
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chance that a docking by a captain who is WANTED or worse is inspected | Records, bail and inspection | Article 23.1 | EAuthored |
Wikipedia, 10 Hygiea: size and mass
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hygiea: size in km and mass in kg | Mining the belt | infobox: dimensions and mass; Atomic Rockets colony site page for the mass | BSecondary |
Wikipedia, Silicon carbide: density of the common polytypes
The link is the Wikipedia article. The page's table cites the Ioffe Institute, which was not opened.
2 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Density of sintered ceramic plate (silicon carbide) | Armor and the six faces | Properties of major SiC polytypes table | BSecondary |
| Density of laminate plate (silicon carbide with tungsten) | Armor and the six faces | Properties of major SiC polytypes table; tungsten from the Atomic Rockets shielding page | CDerived |
Wikipedia, Speech tempo and Words per minute
The link is the Wikipedia article on speech tempo. The page also cites its article on words per minute (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute).
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Words a second a crew says on the net, by skill | The bridge crew and standing orders | speaking rate of radio news | DAnalogy |
Wikipedia, warship displacement and crew: volume per person
This page cites three Wikipedia articles. The link is the Virginia class. The others are the Nimitz class and the Arleigh Burke class.
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ship volume per person aboard | Armor and the six faces | infobox displacement and complement of three classes | DAnalogy |
The game's own design notes
17 documents
These notes are not published. A number that cites one is a design choice with no outside source.
Design notes: atmosphericentry
Cited by Atmospheric entry and the descent corridor (The set-piece and the corridor).
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Travel days of hull maintenance that a hard arrival bills | Atmospheric entry and the descent corridor | The set-piece and the corridor | EAuthored |
Design notes: beacons
4 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Days of air and water a stranded crew has | Salvage and distress | EAuthored | |
| Daily chance that a new beacon is born | Salvage and distress | EAuthored | |
| Daily chance traffic overhears a beacon beside a busy berth | Salvage and distress | BEACON_OVERHEARD_NEAR and BEACON_OVERHEARD_FAR | EAuthored |
| Daily chance traffic overhears a beacon at the edge of anybody's reach | Salvage and distress | BEACON_OVERHEARD_NEAR and BEACON_OVERHEARD_FAR | EAuthored |
Design notes: comms
Cited by Radio voice (_opensbycallingitself).
No single number cites this document yet.
Design notes: crimes
Cited by Records, bail and inspection (Bail).
No single number cites this document yet.
Design notes: hullclass
Cited by Hull classes, sizes and slots (Why one number was carrying two facts).
2 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Most hull points of a light craft, for a hull nobody authored | Hull classes, sizes and slots | The rule | EAuthored |
| Most hull points of a medium craft, for a hull nobody authored | Hull classes, sizes and slots | The rule | EAuthored |
Design notes: hullcrew
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hands aboard each named hull model | Ship's organization and the Second | EAuthored |
Design notes: mining
12 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock grades: ore multiplier and roll weight | Mining the belt | EAuthored | |
| Extraction intensities: yield, encounter change, accident chance | Mining the belt | EAuthored | |
| Hull damage range from a rig accident | Mining the belt | Rig accidents | EAuthored |
| Yield lost to a rig accident | Mining the belt | Rig accidents | EAuthored |
| Rocks in a field at the start | Mining the belt | Fields persist on the player | EAuthored |
| Most rocks a field holds | Mining the belt | NPC mining rigs | EAuthored |
| Days between new rocks drifting in | Mining the belt | Fields persist on the player | EAuthored |
| Resting pressure target of each field | Mining the belt | EAuthored | |
| Lowest pressure multiplier | Mining the belt | Local extraction pressure | EAuthored |
| Highest pressure multiplier | Mining the belt | Local extraction pressure | EAuthored |
| Pressure the captain adds per unit pulled out | Mining the belt | EAuthored | |
| Most rigs in one field | Mining the belt | NPC mining rigs | EAuthored |
Design notes: newtonian
Cited by Ship's organization and the Second (The XO chain (XO_MIN_HANDS), Door.handback and Door.captainanswer).
39 numbers cite this document
Design notes: newtonian-combat-direction
4 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Range past which a hostile has run and is out of the fight | The Newtonian fight | coldweld's second Locusta log: rails spent, no way to run, drones unseen (2026-09-30), Running | EAuthored |
| Distance at which a wing ship falls in beside the captain | The Newtonian fight | Formations and the command menu (2026-09-28) | EAuthored |
| Spacing of the loose formation | The Newtonian fight | Formations and the command menu (2026-09-28) | EAuthored |
| Firings before the rails are spent, by mount size | Kinetic guns and point defense | Next arc: one set of rules, then the guns' own physics (coldweld, 2026-09-29) | EAuthored |
Design notes: plant
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Game seconds in one combat round, for heat, air, fire and power | The Newtonian fight | The unit | EAuthored |
Design notes: plantcondition
Cited by Production plant condition.
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spare-part cover at which a plant keeps its specification | Production plant condition | EAuthored |
Design notes: repair
Cited by Hull wear and repair.
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Person-hours to renew one tonne of structure | Hull wear and repair | DAnalogy |
Design notes: salvagework
2 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share of structure a hulk needs before it can fly | Salvage and distress | EAuthored | |
| Resale value of a hull with a salvage title, as a share of its new price | Salvage and distress | The salvage title and carriers | EAuthored |
Design notes: setting-canon
Cited by Kinetic guns and point defense (2. Safeguards); Mining the belt (Section 6, subsection: The belt is nearly empty, and a fighting field is not); Hull classes, sizes and slots (Timeline).
5 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drones one operator can steer at once, by skill | Kinetic guns and point defense | 2. Safeguards | EAuthored |
| Width of the dense part of a game field | Mining the belt | The belt is nearly empty, and a fighting field is not | EAuthored |
| Length of a cloud chord that blocks sight at pressure 1.0 | Mining the belt | The belt is nearly empty, and a fighting field is not | EAuthored |
| Service years behind a hull before the captain | Hull classes, sizes and slots | Timeline, 2076 to 2276 | EAuthored |
| The year the game begins | Hull classes, sizes and slots | Timeline, 2276 to 2500 | EAuthored |
Design notes: stellarbodydata
4 numbers cite this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inner Belt distance from the sun | Mining the belt | the Belt as three bodies | DAnalogy |
| Middle Belt distance from the sun | Mining the belt | the Belt as three bodies | DAnalogy |
| Outer Belt distance from the sun | Mining the belt | the Belt as three bodies | DAnalogy |
| People living on Ceres | Mining the belt | EAuthored |
Design notes: travel
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| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slope of the size law for events | Radiation dose | Solar particle events as a size law (2026-09-28) | DAnalogy |
| Exponent for how fast a storm weakens with distance from the Sun | Radiation dose | Solar particle events as a size law (2026-09-28) | DAnalogy |
Design notes: travelevents
Cited by Salvage and distress; Contacts in transit.
1 number cites this document
| Quantity | Mechanic | Section | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share of your stores capacity a stranded crew asks for | Salvage and distress | DISTRESS_STORES_SHARE and DISTRESS_FUEL_SHARE | EAuthored |