[grumbler]

Originally posted by Nomor:
Why not treat the fighters like the standard game did for ship movement. Give them a supply resource and engine consumption rate. If they "stay out" too long their movement drops to 1 space per turn. Or does that not work for in system travel..?

That is what I have in mind.

You could have a reactor that provides less resource than the engines consume each turn so that a stationary fighter can refill it's tanks so to speak. There is nothing in the series to say how long a fighter could keep it's life support going if it just cut it's engines.

Time floating in space might then be down to how many packed lunches you took with you or how long it took to fill your waste/urine sack.

Actually, the limits on oxygen supply are featured in several episodes in season 5 (where Lennier is trying to find out how the Centauri are attcking the LoNAW). He didn't enter a trance to keep from peeing!