Showing posts with label falcon heavy rocket. Show all posts
Showing posts with label falcon heavy rocket. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Falcon Heavy

Space-X launched their Falcon Heavy rocket yesterday. It's payload included Elon Musk's midnight cherry red Tesla Roadster and a spacesuit-wearing mannequin named "Starman" sitting in the driver's seat. The 'trans-Mars insertion' burn happened, but an error occurred, as the roadster was supposed to end up in a long orbit around both Earth and Mars. Instead, it overshot and will end up somewhere in the asteroid belt.

If you want to use the Falcon Heavy rocket as part of a Mighty Protectors adventure, you're in luck because I've translated it's stats into the vehicle rules for you!

A few notes about the write-up:

  1. The three main rocket engines are all linked, activating at the same time.

  2. The Power Blast systems are supposed to be the rocket exhaust of each engine. I made them integral, which is a bit clunky, but it works. Each system is linked to an engine and only work while the engine is active.

  3. The "Robot Brain" is just a way of letting the vehicle land and/or maneuver itself.

  4. In order to get close to its real-world top speed, I had to extend the Flight chart to 60 CPs.

  5. I simulated the maneuvering thruster (B2) as Flight that uses the vehicle's overall Power as fuel, although at the steep rate of 1 PR per 1 Round.

Falcon Heavy Sheet (PDF)