2300AD - Aerospace Engineers Handbook

Aerospace engineering is the art and science of designing spacecraft and spacecraft. The practice encompasses a range of craft, from elegant surface-to-orbit vessels to large aircraft, and the aerospace engineer plays a key role in their design. Spacecraft and spacecraft are the lifeblood of exploration and commerce.

They are also essential to the defense and acquisition of colonized worlds and the economies that depend on them. The fast warp drive is the key to interstellar travel. Instead of taking decades or even centuries to reach the stars, the fast speed reduces that time to days. The hardest part is still escaping a planet's gravity well; once in orbit, you're halfway to anywhere. The Aerospace Engineer's Handbook provides everything you need to design not only human spacecraft, but also alien Kaefers, Pentapods, and Sung ships.

It also covers the design of drones, space stations and alternative means of orbiting. In addition, additional information is provided on people living in space, aliens who have abandoned planets for the stars, and the major space powers and their fleets. The Aerospace Engineer's Handbook also contains a selection of drones and ships, which travelers can command, fight, or flee, with advanced rules for space combat.

Requires the use of the 2300AD set.