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I just want to increase the number of players who use the HERO System.  There's a limited amount of gaming dollars available and HERO is getting virtually none of it.  How could it hurt?

Well, a much earlier incarnation of the Hero Games website included a link to a free ZIP download of several JPEG maps of the setting by BK author Lisa Hartjes. Although no longer on this version of the site, the Internet Archive still has the page with the link, and it still works: https://web.archive.org/web/20040608174522/http://www.herogames.com/FreeStuff/freeimagedownloads.htm
 
Just be warned that the maps are very simplistic, good for a general idea of where major areas are in relation to each other, but not really usable in actual play.

They are in the HSEG p107-108 but I have never seen them in the HSEG prefabs, or any other prefab.

The "Ex-Heroes" series by Peter Clines.  Superheroes protecting the last of humanity during the zombie apocalypse.  Epic!  Can't put it down.
 
https://www.amazon.com/Ex-Heroes-Novel-Peter-Clines/dp/0804136572
 

 
"Stealth. Gorgon. Regenerator. Cerberus. Zzzap. The Mighty Dragon. They were heroes, using their superhuman abilities to make Los Angeles a better place.
 
Then the plague of living death spread around the globe. Billions died, civilization fell, and the city of angels was left a desolate zombie wasteland. 
 
Now, a year later, the Mighty Dragon and his companions protect a last few thousand survivors in their film-studio-turned-fortress, the Mount. Scarred and traumatized by the horrors they’ve endured, the heroes fight the armies of ravenous ex-humans at their citadel’s gates, lead teams out to scavenge for supplies—and struggle to be the symbols of strength and hope the survivors so desperately need.
 
But the hungry ex-humans aren’t the only threats the heroes face. Former allies, their powers and psyches hideously twisted, lurk in the city’s ruins. And just a few miles away, another group is slowly amassing power . . . led by an enemy with the most terrifying ability of all."

Miskatonic River Press.  It's been out of print for years.  Amazon has a copy for $249.  There are PDFs floating around the interwebs.
 
https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Sleepless-Scott-David-Aniolowski/dp/098218185X

I've been running a Roll20 "Cthulhu HERO" campaign set in 1925 using pre-published adventures that I've converted to HERO.  The players are fairly new to HERO so I'm able to hand-wave things a little in order to keep the game flowing smoothly.
 
I'm currently running them through adventures from "Tales of the Sleepless City", which is a collection of CoC scenarios set in 1920s New York City.
 
As they get more experience using the HERO System, I'm slowly introducing them to more of the rules.  It's working great so far.  For sanity checks, the players must make EGO rolls with various modifiers.  Failure can result in the characters acquiring a Psychological Limitation which could be temporary or permanent, depending upon how badly they failed the EGO roll.  Permanent Psych Lims can still be bought down or bought off with XPs.
 

Here are two templates I modified to combine computers with vehicles. One template just adds INT (for a regular computer) and the other template adds INT and EGO (for an AI).
 
 
Vehicle With AI - 6th Edition.hdtVehicle With Computer - 6th Edition.hdt
 
EDIT:  Templates modified on April 19, 2019 to include the "Program" Talent.

Here are two templates I modified to combine computers with vehicles. One template just adds INT (for a regular computer) and the other template adds INT and EGO (for an AI).
 
 
Vehicle With AI - 6th Edition.hdtVehicle With Computer - 6th Edition.hdt
 
EDIT:  Templates modified on April 19, 2019 to include the "Program" Talent.

I'm assuming all in-system travel involves acceleration to midpoint, and deceleration to the destination.  This great chart is from Classic Traveller.
 

You build it as a Vehicle.  File -> New Character -> 6th Edition -> Vehicle.
Or, you can use the template I provided above.  File -> New Character -> Custom/Non-Standard.
 
Vehicles are almost identical to characters with some changes to Characteristics.  They have a SIZE, but lack INT, EGO, and PRE.  There are some other minor differences.  Open the "Close Escort" hdc file above to get a feel for ship construction.
 
You will need to use a Vehicle Export Format available in the Downloads section on this site, since Hero Designer PDF export is only designed for characters.

I'm assuming all in-system travel involves acceleration to midpoint, and deceleration to the destination.  This great chart is from Classic Traveller.
 

I'm assuming all in-system travel involves acceleration to midpoint, and deceleration to the destination.  This great chart is from Classic Traveller.
 

I'm assuming all in-system travel involves acceleration to midpoint, and deceleration to the destination.  This great chart is from Classic Traveller.
 

Here is the player intro for my own Star Hero setting, an amalgam of published and original material:
 
AD 2,203. Earth's population is 100 billion. The solar system has been colonized, but not terraformed. The planets and asteroid belt are members of a loose alliance called the Terran Union.
 
Over the past 100 years, unmanned sublight probes were sent nearby stars which revealed several worlds which were hospitable to life. Massive colony ships were launched to these systems.
 
And then, Dr. Nels Bergenholm invented the hyperdrive.
 
Communication has been lost with the Santa Maria, the colossal sublight colony ship en route to Barnard's Star. On the last voice transmission, only screams of terror were heard.
 
Your ship, the IPM Windfall Prophet, an 800-ton Gazelle-class Close Escort, has been retrofitted with the new Bergenholm Hyperdrive. Your assignment is to intercept the Santa Maria and find out what happened.

I'll take a negative tweetstorm against Hero Games any day.  What's it going to do? Hurt sales?  At the very least, it will raise Hero's profile.
 
Love the idea of a 6E Pulp Hero setting.  Would also love to see a Champions 3000 science-fantasy setting.  Everything from battling space-orcs in a black hole debris field, up to defending the galaxy from evil, extra-dimensional space-gods.

Well, if you don't mind Fifth Edition Hero System, and you can spare $12.50 US, you could download the PDF of the Pulp Hero genre book, which includes dozens of character templates, as well as several full NPC write-ups: https://www.herogames.com/forums/store/product/376-pulp-hero-pdf/
 
 
If you have the Hero Designer software, you could instead spend $4.00 to get the character pack with all of those: https://www.herogames.com/forums/store/product/377-pulp-hero-character-pack/
 

Here is the player intro for my own Star Hero setting, an amalgam of published and original material:
 
AD 2,203. Earth's population is 100 billion. The solar system has been colonized, but not terraformed. The planets and asteroid belt are members of a loose alliance called the Terran Union.
 
Over the past 100 years, unmanned sublight probes were sent nearby stars which revealed several worlds which were hospitable to life. Massive colony ships were launched to these systems.
 
And then, Dr. Nels Bergenholm invented the hyperdrive.
 
Communication has been lost with the Santa Maria, the colossal sublight colony ship en route to Barnard's Star. On the last voice transmission, only screams of terror were heard.
 
Your ship, the IPM Windfall Prophet, an 800-ton Gazelle-class Close Escort, has been retrofitted with the new Bergenholm Hyperdrive. Your assignment is to intercept the Santa Maria and find out what happened.

6th Edition Vehicles and Pulp Hero.

Spacers Toolkit Online

Spacers Toolkit Online

Force
Acceleration   =    ----------
                                    Mass
 
In your multiple "small, fast" ship thought experiment, you are increasing the Mass, but you are also increasing the "Force" (each ship also has its own engine).  It takes a lot less Force to accelerate a 50-ton fighter at 5 Gs that it does to accelerate million-ton dreadnought at 5 Gs.

I've been running a (very) infrequent Fantasy Hero 6E campaign on Roll20, set in the Hyborian Kingdoms.  I haven't played a live session in about 25 years.

I am going to stay out of the accuracy arguments, as people are trying to take an example and extrapolate it to a maximum. But if you look at the chart on 187, it gives the maximum volume in cubic meters for a given size value. So a Size 10 vehicle could hold up to 2000 cubic meters of cargo internally. If you want more exact rules on this, check out The Ultimate Vehicle. It's for 5e, but it was written by Bob and Steve and has some very good examples.
 

Thank you for these!  I'm running a FH campaign in the Hyborian Kingdoms, so I would love to see conversions for the Conan and Red Sonja modules.

Thank you for these!  I'm running a FH campaign in the Hyborian Kingdoms, so I would love to see conversions for the Conan and Red Sonja modules.