![]() ![]() Mostly for the same reasons as the AI, above. Related to that, the second most important part of the ship: The ship's crew Unless you can restore it from backup, anyway. You can probably easily install a fresh one, but it probably needs a lot of time to scan and learn all the vessel's non-standard upgrades, it might not even recognize some of them, it will need to relearn how you issue orders and what the ship can do. If you lose the AI, you lose everything it's learned. Every time you replace some component for a slightly-different version, every time you add a non-standard routine, every time you give repeated orders that aren't a part of the training course, every time you barely survive an encounter, your ship AI will know, learn and adapt how it reacts. Many ships in space-opera settings go through a lot of crap and are changed for it. The ship's AIīecause it's probably installed as a standard issue, but grows as the ship does. Probably not neccesarily sought after, or even having any kind of resale value, but most ships will probably have two systems that are the hardest to replace, because they aren't standardized but rather grow with the ship. Colony supplies such as fertilized ovum.This extends to almost any vital ship component or consumable: For example, on a ship running out of oxygen for the crew, oxygen tanks become the most important parts. Any damage to the computer requires replacing it with another computer.ĭepending upon specific situations, you could also make almost any component or supply on a ship the most important to a crew. All of that costs money.Ĭrews with specialized training might be able to fly a ship with no ship's computer but no crew could fly a ship with a broken propulsion system.Īlternatively, you could probably fudge things and say that the computer was the most expensive components and that unlike the propulsion systems, the computers can't be repaired. Major repairs require shipyards with very specialized and expensive tools along with the skilled workers required to operate those tools. (but you might succeed in breaking it beyond anyone else's ability to repair it) You'll never fix your drive system this way Unfortunately repairs won't be made by mechanics named Kaylee using a hammer (or for that matter by the ship's Captain by kicking it back into alignment!). Space Opera spaceships require high thrust, high impulse engines which require extreme science and engineering. In that case, it would likely be the propulsion system. Let's instead assume that some bit of the ship broke and you're wondering which bit would cost the most to repair. If this is your definition than the computer core could very well be the most valuable portion of the ship. If you mean valuable from the point of view as plunder (one ship stealing from another), it constrains the part to be both relatively small and portable. ![]() It really depends upon what you mean by "valuable." What would be the most valuable part of a space ship? ![]()
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