Savage Worlds Science Fiction Companion and The World of Grey

Pinnacle Entertainment Group released the Science Fiction Companion to an eager audience looking for Savage adventures in the far future. It contains new races, Edges and Hindrances, Setting Rules, gear, cyberware, and numerous new races and creature. It also includes rules for players and Game Masters to create their own robots, power armor, vehicles, starships, walkers.

PEG packs a lot into 98 pages making it will worth the PDF price of $14.99. I was curious how well it handled custom settings. I recently released a science fiction novella titled World of Grey and was curious as to how well the ships, characters, gear, and races of that book translated into the new rule set.

Ships

The Green Dawn is a Seminole class Assault Scout that exists somewhere between the Medium and Large ship types presented in the SFC. It but most closely matches the Medium template. I inferred a bit between the two sets of stats.

	Medium	Green Dawn	Large
Size	8	9	10
Acc	45	43	40
TS	600	550	500
Climb	2	2	1
Toughness	25	27	30
Armor	6	6	7
Mods	25	27	30
Crew	5	15	50

I used our Ship Builder spreadsheet from a previous post to generate the Dawn. Here's the result.

Ship Name	Green Dawn
Size	Medium/Large
Acc/TS	43/550
Climb	2
Toughness	27(6)
Mods Remaining	2
Crew	15
Energy Store	200
Cost	$26,540,000.00
Systems	AI, Atmospheric, Deflector Screens, FTL, Hanger, Sensor Suite Galactic, Shields, Targeting System,
Weapons	2XLight Lasers (2X Linked), 2XMedium Lasers (2X Fixed and Linked), Torpedo 1XLauncher with 8xLight (1X Fixed),

The Dawn has the characteristic of Large ships in that it can take a maximum of 2 wounds per attack due to air-tight compartments. It also has a Marauder Drop Shuttle attached to the airlock behind engineering. Its meant to sneak past detection, survive a landing, and provide some direct fire support of the Hellhound squad.

Ship Name	Marauder Drop Shuttle
Size	Small
Acc/TS	50/700
Climb	3
Toughness	20(9)
Mods Remaining	0
Crew	1
Passengers	10
Energy Story	25
Cost	$3,165,000.00
Systems	AMCM, 2xArmor, Atmospheric, Deflector Screens, Passenger Pod, Sensor Suite Planetary, Shields, Stealth,
Weapons	1XLight Lasers (1X Fixed), 1XHeavy Slug Throwers,

Sarge's Hellhounds encounter a Slug ship during the story. Slugs are technologically advanced. I manifested this by giving them 50% more mod spaces on Blasphore's ship.

Ship Name	Blashphor's 'Freighter'
Size	Huge
Acc/TS	35/400
Climb	0
Toughness	35(8)
Mods Remaining	27
Crew	300
Passengers	0
Energy Story	500
Cost	$89,280,000.00
Systems	AMCM, Deflector Screens, FTL, Sensor Suite Galactic, Shields, Tractor Beam,
Weapons	8XLight Lasers (8X Linked), 4XSuper Heavy Lasers (4X Fixed and Linked), Torpedo 2XLauncher with 16xLight 4xHeavy (2X Fixed),

The slug ship used 20 of the mod spaces for this adventure with two superstructures. You'll have to read the story to find out what they were. 

So, with a little GM fiat, I was able to represent the ships fairly well using the base rules. The SFC applies a logarithmic curve to ship sizing so getting exactly what I wrote took a bit of fudging.

Characters

Next, I tried to interpret the characters.

Doc is a cyborg who was once a doctor at a colonial hospital. An attack left a third of her body destroyed. I was interested to see how she would translate. Here's how she turned out as a seasoned character.

Doc
Agility	d8	Parry	4
Smarts	d8	Toughness	8(2)
Spirit	d8	Charisma	-2
Strength	d12	Pace	6
Vigor	d8
Hindrances
Mean	Minor	–2 to his Charisma for ill-temper
Quirk	Minor	Flares cybereye during conversation
Vow	Major	To protect the Dawn
Bad Luck	Major	1 less bennie per session
Edges
Cyborg	Doubles Cyber Allowed
Healer	+2 Healing
Ace	+2 Boating, Driving, Piloting - Can make craft soaks
Skills
Driving	d4+2
Fighting	d4
Healing	d8+4
K – Astrogation	d6+2
K – Biology	d6
K – Electronics	d6+2
K – French	d4
Notice	d6+2
Persuasion	d4
Piloting	d10+4
Repair	d4
Shooting	d4
Throwing	d4
Cyber
3xStrength(6), 1xAgility(2), Improved Vision(1), Improved Hearing(1), Trait Bonus -Piloting(1), Healing(1), Piloting(2), Knowledge (Electronics)(1), Knowledge (Astrogation)(1)
Gear
Smart Suit, Laser Pistol, Comlink, Personal Data Device

Races

Arvins are a race of lagomorphs (rabbits) from the planet Arv. They've been conquered a number of times so being taken over by the Federation was nothing new. In fact, they considered a real step up from being conquered by the Kurr, who used them as game animals.

What most races call cowardice, Arvins see has just plain common sense. They are one of the few non-human races that are seen throughout the Federation.

• Fleet Footed(+1) - Arvins have a base pace of 8 and a running die of d10
• Enhanced Hearing(+1) - +2 to hearing based Notice Checks
• Leaper(+1) - Doubles normal jumping ability.
• Night Eyes (+1) - ignores penalties for bad lighting
• Yellow (-2) - All Fear checks made at -2

Conclusion

I was able to easily convert my fictional universe from World of Grey into Savage Worlds. I was quite impressed by how little work it took. All the concepts seem to flow easily into the the new ruleset.