- Skiff (also known as Flea, Bubble Bike, or Gemini) a small, generally 2 person vehicle used to make short trips around the outside of space stations or orbitals. They have their own atmo and 02, but are not equipped to make long journeys. They could probably go from orbit down onto a planet if you were really pushing things and were ok possibly burning your skiff out. There is a huge underground skiff racing community on New New Vegas.
- Gemini Mark 5 is one
- Hopper A low-altitude VTOL aircraft that uses ducted fans or vectored thrust nozzles for lift; not capable of long-range or high-altitude flight but able to do short 'hops', city to city. Designed to be simple to operate, at least compared to more serious aircraft. Basically, a flying car. Expensive to maintain and of limited utility, so most are owned by either enthusiasts or rich douchebags
¶ SPACE (System Planet and Colony Express)
- A intra-system public ship transit network that goes between the major settlements (or at least the major ones when it was founded)
- SPACE ships are named with a ship ID code (number, letter, number, letter, letter, and then the name of a famous postal worker)
- 8B3MD SAMUEL L. GRAVELY- Stops at Aeolus, SE738, Pallas, SE826, Nowhere Station
- Paid for by the Coln Nye Atbrook Endowment for Public Transportation & Intra-System Connection.
- Atbrook was a rich Terran (multigenerational wealth) who wanted to do something good for the system and set this thing up plus an endowment to payfor it going forward
- Set routes, stops by places between once a week and once a month
- Some big places aren’t on the stops list because it was set up ages ago
- It’s really hard to get new stops added
- There are some places that were built just as stops for the SPACE, either because building on a planet/asteroid/station would have been too much trouble, or required being governed with rules Atbrook didn’t want. These are called System Exchange Stations (SES) and are named with an alphanumeric code starting with SE then 3 digits. Sometimes these get turned into names for the stations
- SE115- “the Mall” (from “sells”) SES between Uranus and Saturn (setting for Solidarity Forever)
- Aesir
- Makes personal space craft
- Skeidbrimir
- Smaller, fast vehicles, highly maneuverable, fairly low muscle, but gets where it’s going fast.
- Engines are either AE884 or AE900