Editing Robots and Vehicles (section)

== Aircraft ==
On Mars, Venus, and within large open-space habitats like O'Neill Cylinders, aircraft of various kinds see regular use. This includes modern version of rotorcraft (helicopters, autogyros, tilt-rotors), fixed-wing planes, and zeppelins and other lighter-than-air craft. These are typically propelled by turbofan or jet engines, rotors, or vectored thrust. These vehicles are piloted with Pilot: Aircraft skill.
'''Microlight:''' This ultra-light personal aircraft is not much more than a strut-based wing, an airframe, and an electric propeller engine. They are ideal for getting around inside large habitats with enclosed airspace. '''[Low]'''
'''Portable Plane:''' Powered by superconducting batteries and with an exceedingly small but powerful electric motor, this light but durable propeller plane is made of smart materials that allow it to be swiftly folded up into a small portable package. Different versions are designed for flight on Mars, Titan, or Venus, each taking 10 minutes to assemble or disassemble. The Martian version unpacks into an airplane with a wingspan of 11 m with a top speed of 250 kph and a cruising speed of 220 kph and a range of 1,300 km. The Venusian version has a wingspan of 9 m, a top speed of 200 kph and a range of 1,000 km. The version designed for use on Titan has a wingspan of 8 m and has a top speed of 200 kph and a range of 2,000 km. In all versions, the two occupants ride in an inflatable and insulated pressurized bubble with a life support system capable of providing clean air and comfortable temperatures for 20 hours on Mars and Venus, and 15 hours on Titan. '''[High]'''

'''Rocket Buggy:''' This vehicle is the most common form of medium to long distance personal transport on Luna, and is in common on most other moons and large asteroids. On these airless worlds, a rocket buggy can reach orbit and return or take a parabolic path to any destination on that moon in less than an hour. This vehicle is also regularly used to travel between habitats that are less than 30,000 km apart. The vehicle is pressurized, but is designed for short duration travel only. The seats are relatively small and the life support system contains no provisions for recycling food or water and can only support the passengers for an absolute maximum of 50 uncomfortable hours. Rockets buggies come equipped with headlights, radio boosters, and radar with a range of up to 250 km.
A version of this vehicle is also used on both Mars and Titan, but here the frame has been modified to act as a lifting body, and it has a top speed in the thin Martian atmosphere of 2,500 km/hour and a range of 8,000 km on Mars. On Titan is has a top speed of 3,000 kph in the atmosphere, but it can also reach orbit. '''[Expensive]'''
'''Small Jet:''' Methane-powered jet planes are one of the most common forms of fast transport on Mars and Venus. Similar planes are used on Titan, except that they carry both liquid methane and liquid oxygen. These jets range in size from huge vehicles the size of late 20th-century airliners to small planes designed to carry half a dozen passengers. All jets are made using smart materials, so that their wings and frames can adapt to a wide range of speeds and altitudes. One common small jet has similar versions in use on Venus, Mars, and Titan, has a single jet engine and has a life support system capable of providing air for up to 100 hours. The Venusian and Martian versions both have a top speed of 900 kph, a wingspan of 11 m, and a maximum range of 5,000 km. The version designed for Titan has a wingspan of 8 m, a top speed of 650 kph, and a range of 4,000 km. Jets are equipped with headlights, radio boosters, and radar with a range of up to 250 km. '''[Expensive]'''
'''Flying Car:''' These highly-efficient, methane-powered, turbofan vectored-thrust vehicles are common on Mars, especially in the cities and larger settlements. The vehicle is the size of a small sedan, and the fans fold into the body when not in use, enabling it to also operate as a ground car. On the ground, they have a maximum velocity of 180 kph on roads, but only 60 kph off-road. Flying car cabins are pressurized, heated, equipped with radar and a radio booster, and provide life support for biomorphs unequipped to breath Martian atmosphere. '''[Expensive]'''

'''Security Model:''' Used by police and security forces, this model has higher speeds, a weapons turret, better armor, and off-road capabilities. '''[Expensive, Minimum 30,000]'''
'''Backwing:''' The back wing is a wearable powered glider. Designed to be the smallest and most portable airplane possible, this device allows gatecrashers to ﬂy with ease and without the necessity of spending time assembling a vehicle or having to carry a portable plane in a large and awkward container. The backwing is packaged as backpack-like garment made of smart fabric. When activated (usually via mesh command), it forms into a rigid wing with a span of 8 meters in 1 Action Turn.
The back wing also includes a small metallic-hydrogen rocket as part of the pack that can produce 8 minutes of thrust. At 1 g, 6 Action Turns of thrust will lift the wearer 100 meters above the ground. The remaining thrust can be used in combination with the wing to keep the wearer airborne for as long as 8-10 hours, using brief bursts of rocket power whenever the vehicle goes below a certain altitude. The only disadvantage of this device is that it has a mass of 25 kilograms. '''[Moderate]'''
'''Large Jet:''' This jet is powered by liquid hydrogen and is the size of a small 20th-century commercial airliner. It is designed for maximum fuel efﬁciency and can also take off and land on any relatively smooth solid surface. Its adaptive outer covering also allows it to land and take off from water. It has a cruising speed of 1,100 kph and a range of 40,000 km, allowing it to make a single 20,000 km round trip before it must refuel. It has a passenger capacity of 150. '''[Expensive, min. 50,000]'''

'''Passenger Airship:''' A major method of intra-aerostat transport on Venus, these huge vehicles are 250 meters long and 40 meters in diameter and can carry up to 100 passengers and 20 tons of cargo. Powered by small fusion reactors, these vehicles can operate for weeks at a time, but most journeys take less than 5 days. '''[Expensive]'''
'''Passenger Balloon:''' These delicate constructions of lightweight polymers and aerogels are primarily used by tourists and the wealthy on Venus. The spherical balloon is both the vehicle’s source of lift and also the source of breathable air for those passengers that require it. The passenger cabin is a small room, 6 meters in diameter, with limited facilities, attached directly to the bottom of the balloon. '''[High]'''

'''Outsystem Hover:''' Most vehicles designed for use on airless worlds have limited ranges because they are rockets that must carry along all of their fuel. However, with the exception of Io, all of the large and medium-sized outer system moons have large amounts of ice and other frozen volatiles on their surface. This vehicle employs a small reactor to convert both stored water and any local frozen volatiles into hot gases that it uses to propel itself. Using steam from its water tank to become airborne, the vehicle’s underside contains powerful heating elements that flash frozen volatiles on the ground beneath it into warm gas that the vehicle then uses to move itself along. Because it is surrounded by a cloud of roiling gas, this vehicle uses radar and t-ray sensors for navigation. Except for brief periods where it relies on stored reaction mass and can reach an altitude of up to 30 meters, it flies at a maximum altitude of 3 meters above the ground, and it has a top speed of up to 150 kph over any terrain. On any moon with either a thick atmosphere or where the surface is mostly ice or other frozen volatiles like frozen carbon dioxide or nitrogen, it can fly indefinitely. These vehicles are pressurized and contain life support that functions as long as the vehicle is resupplied with ice or other oxygen-containing substances at least once a month. The most common version of this vehicle holds six passengers and a small amount of cargo, but larger and more expensive versions also exist. '''[Expensive]'''
''Enhancements:'' Access Jacks, Cryonic Protection, Laser Link, Radar, Radio
'''Outsystem Skimmer:''' Powered by a small fusion reactor, this vehicle contains as a miniature plasma rocket that’s designed to produce up to 0.25 g thrust by lowering efficiency and increasing reaction mass use. Skimmers can use either hydrogen, methane, or water as reaction mass, allowing them to swiftly and easily refuel on almost any moon. They are also quite small, being lentil shaped disks eight meters in diameter and five meters thick. Skimmers can carry up to eight passengers and twelve tons of cargo. They can typically make a journey of up to one million kilometers in 10 hours, with fuel left to take off or land from any moon, asteroid, or other small body in the solar system. These vehicles are popular with couriers, smugglers, traders, and other residents of the outer system. Their life support functions for 30 days before it requires additional input, but they are rarely used for one-way journeys longer than five million kilometers, which take two full days. '''[Expensive, min 60,000]'''
''Enhancements:'' Access Jacks, Cryonic Protection, Laser Link, Radar, Radio
'''Titanian Cargo Copter:''' This massive dual-rotor helicopter takes advantage of Titan’s thick atmosphere and low gravity. It is unable to fly anywhere else in the solar system, including Earth and Venus. It can carry 15 tons of cargo or 30 personnel. [Expensive, Minimum 40,000+]
''Enhancements:'' Access Jacks, Cryonic Protection, Laser Link, Radar, Radio
'''Utility Helicopter:''' This is a standard helicopter design from Earth, deployed on Titan. It is commonly used for cargo and personnel transport, medevac, ground/air assault, and command/control. '''[Expensive]'''
''Enhancements:'' Access Jacks, Cryonic Protection, Laser Link, Radar, Radio
{| class="wikitable"
!Aircraft
!Passenger Capacity
!Handling
!Movement Rate
!Max Velocity
!Armor
!Durability
!Wound Threshold
!Death Rating
|-
|Microlight
|1
| +20
|8/40
|100
| ---
|30
|10
|100
|-
|Portable Plane
|2
| +10
| ---
|200-250
|10/6
|50
|10
|100
|-
|Rocket Buggy
|4
| -10
|8/32
|2,500-3,000
|24/16
|100
|20
|200
|-
|Small Jet
|6
| +20
| ---
|650-900
|30/20
|200
|30
|300
|-
|Back Wing
|1
| ---
|8/40
|250
| ---
|30
|6
|60
|-
|Large Jet
|21
| +20
| ---
|800-1,200
|30/20
|200
|40
|400
|-
|Passenger Airship
|100
| -20
| ---
|100
|5/5
|300
|10
|100
|-
|Passenger Balloon
|10
| -30
| ---
|100
| ---
|20
|5
|50
|-
|Flying Car
|4
| ---
|8/40 (ground) / --- (air)
|180 (ground) / 200 (air)
|20/10
|150
|30
|300
|-
|Flying Car (Security Model)
|4
| +10
|8/60 (ground) / --- (air)
|200 (ground) / 220 (air)
|20/20
|200
|40
|400
|-
|Outsystem Hover
|6
| +10
|8/40
|200
|20/10
|150
|30
|300
|-
|Outsystem Skimmer
|6
| +20
|12/200
|NA
|20
|20
|80
|800
|-
|Titanian Cargo Copter
|32
| ---
|4/40
|150
|20/20
|250
|50
|500
|-
|Utility Helicopter
|8
| +10
|8/40
|200
|20/10
|150
|30
|300
|}