Spaceship Blueprints by Steve Jackson Games

GURPS Spaceships, the eagerly anticipated companion to GURPS Space, offers rules for spacecraft of Tech Levels 7-12, ranging from small lifeboats to massive dreadnoughts. It delves into spaceship design, travel, and operations, accompanied by a streamlined, mapless space-combat system. The ship design and operation rules are more abstract than those in GURPS Vehicle Design or GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars, enabling faster gameplay with minimal math and a wealth of creative options. Even the largest spaceships can be built in minutes, and the design system is surrounded by basic space-travel and combat systems to help you start your interstellar adventures immediately. While it lacks detailed finance, trade, or hex-grid-based combat rules, these are planned for future volumes. It serves as the core book in a series that will present ready-to-use spacecraft and comprehensive rules for various aspects of space travel. GURPS Spaceships requires only the GURPS Basic Set, but GURPS Space is highly recommended for its guidance on stardrives, characters, campaigns, and settings.