Homebrew Star Wars D6 - Exposure to Vacuum Rules

[Deset Gled]

I found the official rules from 2e under Hyperdrive Mishaps, which includes the possibility of a ruptured spaceship hull:

"All characters in the ruptured area of a ship must make a Moderate survival total to get into survival suits in one round. If the character doesn't, he must make a new stamina check each round to avoid passing out from lack of air - in the first round, the difficulty is Easy, then Moderate, then Difficult, then Very Difficult, then Heroic."

 

[Celebrim]

I found the official rules from 2e under Hyperdrive Mishaps, which includes the possibility of a ruptured spaceship hull:

"All characters in the ruptured area of a ship must make a Moderate survival total to get into survival suits in one round. If the character doesn't, he must make a new stamina check each round to avoid passing out from lack of air - in the first round, the difficulty is Easy, then Moderate, then Difficult, then Very Difficult, then Heroic."

Cool.

That's close to what I'm doing. I do have the escalating difficulty thing going, though it's not clear what the intention of "passing out from lack of air" means. Does that mean vacuum is never life threatening in Star Wars? You go unconscious and then...?

I have to adjudicate something more complex than putting on a suit. Also, unless the hull is fully ruptured and we are in an explosive decompression sort of situation, I'd probably give more than one round before you had to start taking checks.

Also, your more serious sorts of spacer - the ones lacking the fragile ego that don't need to go around looking fashionable all the time - typically wear suits whenever in space and just need to lock the helmet in place (typically clipped to a belt). Three or four of the pilots in the bar in Mos Eisley are still in their flight suits. I'd guess they don't take them off in space!

All of my PC bounty hunters either normally wear an armored flight suit or else wear environmentally sealed armor.

I'd presume the Mandalorian rule of never taking your helmet off evolved from safety regulations aboard ship.

 

[jian]

One thing that is notable is that the Rebels generally aren’t wearing respirators and full body suits when piloting their fighters but the Imperial pilots are. Ejecting out of a shot up X-Wing will be a lot less fun if you can’t breathe afterwards. One rare occasion when the Empire cares a little bit more about its personnel than the Rebels?

(We all know the Doylist reason, of course, which is that Lucas thinks that heroes should show their faces.)