Basic Move

This is on the Secondary Characteristic. For the maneuver see Move

Basic Move is a Secondary Attribute that is the character's ground speed in yards per second. It is normally equal to Basic Speed (dropping all fractions), before being bought up. It can be modified:

• Cost: ±5 points per ±1 yard/second

Encumbrance and Move

• No Encumbrance (0): Weight up to Basic Lift. Move = Basic Move. Full Dodge.
• Light Encumbrance (1): Weight up to 2 x Basic Lift. Move = Basic Move x 0.8. Dodge -1.
• Medium Encumbrance (2): Weight up to 3 x Basic Lift. Move = Basic Move x 0.6. Dodge -2.
• Heavy Encumbrance (3): Weight up to 6 x Basic Lift. Move = Basic Move x 0.4. Dodge -3.
• Extra-Heavy Encumbrance (4): Weight up to 10 x Basic Lift. Move = Basic Move x 0.2. Dodge -4

Alternate Move

• Air Move: Basic Speed x 2 (dropping all fractions). Basic Move on the ground remains the same.
• Water Move: Basic Move/5, rounded down
  • Amphibious: Water Move = Basic Move for both land and water.
  • Aquatic: Water Move = Basic Move for water only, land Move is 0.

Enhancements

• Soaring (+10%) - despite the name this can also apply to water move(?)

Vehicle and Spaceship Move

• Vehicle Move is composed of two parts: Acceleration/Top Speed
• Spaceship Move is also composed of Acceleration/Top Speed but Acceleration is in Gs (x 10 for yard/sec Move) and Top Speed is in Delta-V or miles per second (x 1,760 for yard/sec Move)

Classic Move

• Running added to Basic Speed only for determining Land Move (skill level/8, retain fractions); it had no effect on Dodge or Basic Speed itself.

Quick and Dirty Calculations

For a really quick and dirty conversion from Basic Move to miles/hour multiply Basic Move by 2. For km/hr multiply Basic Move by 3 and for knots/hour multiply Basic Move by 1.8. This is not exact but does a reasonable job.

The more precise equations are:

• miles/hour = Basic Move (yd/sec) x 1 mile / 1760 yd x 3600 sec/1 hr (~2.045 miles/h).
• km/hr = Basic Move (yd/sec) x 1 mile / 1760 yd x 3600 sec/1 hr x ~1.609 km/mile (~3.291 km/h).
• knots/hour = Basic Move (yd/sec) x 1 knot/ 2025.3718285214 yd x 3600 sec/1 hr (~1.777 knots/h)

See also

• Basic Speed

References

• Basic Set pg 17