GravDeck damage impacts ...?

[FawcettE]

 :D
Hello,

cannot find impacts on playing in/between scenarios if a space unit gets it's GravDeck damaged.
Total Warfare spells beyond aspect of tactical games.
TechManual/TacOps do not adress it too, just describing building rules.
StratOps also has no modificators (modificators changing) listed as to how exactly a lost/damaged GravDeck impacts your campaign.

So ...  :( where to find ??  :'(

Thanks in advance,
Ethan  O0

[guardiandashi]

to the best of my knowledge there are no official penalties for not having a working grav deck.

with that said... most of the issues would be health/morale related. and likely the health issues would take some time to kick in. 

I know there are a lot of issues but look at 2001 a space odyssey, and more recently "the Martian" the grav decks on battletech craft are not exact matches, but the principles are similar. they include rotating sections that provide "centrifugal force simulations"  of gravity, the biggest issue with the Martian is that the hermes spacecraft is too big, and has way too much internal volume to be practical, there are other places where the "science" is flawed or problematic but...

but think about it if the grav deck is primarily for exercise and recreation having it broken, is going to make long term 0g health issue to crop up a lot sooner, but I believe most of the issues still take weeks to months to become issues.  Morale on the other hand will start being affected more or less immediately.

[jh316]

Unless you're on a space station or you're sitting in a jumpship at a jump point, you don't even need a grav deck. Dropships and warships moving through the system are getting a steady 1g of acceleration which gives you gravity.

[cray]

Unless you're on a space station or you're sitting in a jumpship at a jump point, you don't even need a grav deck. Dropships and warships moving through the system are getting a steady 1g of acceleration which gives you gravity.

Yep. Unless the grav deck has a large diameter (over 225m), they tend to run at less than 1G to avoiding disturbing the crew's inner ears (those that do are dubbed "puke wheels" and "stomach pumpers", p. 140 StratOps). They are thus only places for recreation, using a toilet under some gravity, eating in some gravity, and exercise. They rarely have key functions like being the bridge. Even large ones don't have vital uses because they'll be locked down in combat, completely reorienting their sense of up and down.

Per p. 140 Strategic Operations: "Small gravdecks, particularly the forty- to one hundred-meter sorts found on JumpShips, are thus mostly useful for—excuse me—“dining and defecating,” as spacers sum it up. In other words, these little gravdecks mostly serve as lounges. The low simulated gravity allows a normal meal instead of food-in-a-tube or those weird low-crumb, high-cohesivity recipes. It also avoids the trouble of the zero-G toilet, which, after eleven centuries of development, still stinks, if you’ll pardon the pun."

So blowing up a gravdeck will be annoying to the crew, but it won't affect battlefield performance until they get tired of zero-G toilets or plastic bags.