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=== Small Craft Racing === | === Small Craft Racing === | ||
- | Take a small transport craft, rig much too big engines on it and then put it in dangerous terrain: asteroid fields, canyons, minimal altitude and race. This ranges in officialdom and safety - like F1 today there are televised leagues with official courses and minimal fatalities to the equivalent of street races. While most nobles limit themselves to sponsoring a racer or team, a few have the racing bug and pilot themselves. | + | Take a small transport craft, rig much too big engines on it and then put it in dangerous terrain: asteroid fields, canyons, minimal altitude and race. This ranges in officialdom and safety, the upper end being like F1 today where there are televised leagues with official courses and minimal fatalities, to the equivalent of street races. While most nobles limit themselves to sponsoring a racer or team, a few have the racing bug and pilot themselves. |
Perhaps the most (in)famous are the “Rocketz” races where the craft are deliberately as ancient as possible, still burning chemical propellant with the engines as tricked out as 27th century science can make something that works by belching an explosion out of one end. (Bonus points if the craft is actually from pre-ardanium space travel). Unsurprisingly they are death traps the entire thing is illegal, and pilots life expectancy is further shortened by the fact that many mount primitive weapons. | Perhaps the most (in)famous are the “Rocketz” races where the craft are deliberately as ancient as possible, still burning chemical propellant with the engines as tricked out as 27th century science can make something that works by belching an explosion out of one end. (Bonus points if the craft is actually from pre-ardanium space travel). Unsurprisingly they are death traps the entire thing is illegal, and pilots life expectancy is further shortened by the fact that many mount primitive weapons. |