If pushed out the airlock of the spaceshuttle, a Scion would have four factors to deal with:
- Hard Vacuum: 6B/Action, Trauma 5
- Heat: 4L/Action, Trauma 3
- Cold: 4L/Action, Trauma 3
- Asphyxiation: 1 unsoakable bashing per 30 seconds after (Stamina+Fortitude)x30 seconds
If they were in a shadow, the Heat danger would go away, but the trauma value of the Cold danger would increase. The Fire Purview could render you immune to the heat. An astronaut in top physical shape (8 to 10 dice on Stamina+Fortitude, Bashing Soak of 4 or 5) could survive for a couple minutes with some lucky die rolls, but eventually they will die.
A Legend-4 Scion with Epic Stamina 3 would have 4 auto successes plus at minimum of 3 dice on the rolls. He'd have and a minimum Soak of 5 Lethal, 6 Bashing. And he could hold his breath for 8 times that of a Mortal with his mundane stamina. So, he'd stand a good chance of being unharmed until he'd spent at least 12 minutes in earth orbit. He'd be immune to the extreme temperatures, rarely take damage from the vacuum, and eventually die of oxygen deprivation somewhere around the 16-minute mark.Re-entry is another matter. Damage would likely be 12L/action, Trauma 10. It may even be Aggravated - I tend to think not (since fire does only Lethal in Scion), but it could be argued. I'm unclear how long you'd be subjected to that.
Impact, upon landing is 25 levels of Bashing or Lethal, depending on where you hit down.
A Legend-7 Demigod with Stamina 6, Epic Stamina 6 (and therefore Soak of at least 6 Aggravated, 19 Lethal, 22 Bashing) and Fortitude 1 could survive in outerspace unaided for at least 58 hours (210,000 seconds before taking any damage) and then survive re-entry and impact.
Built (and advanced) to maximize for this, including maxing out your Legend and Stamina during both Character Creation and Demigod Upgrade, plus putting all your XP into Legend, a starting character could get to that level of Soak in about 6 sessions.
The PCs in my campaign are about 20 sessions in, and thankfully nowhere near that min-maxed.
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In case that link ever expires:
Hard vacuum and re-entry data
Did some research today, and thought you might all find it mildly interesting. Most of this is widely known in general terms, but the exact numeric specifics were knew to me...
* An astronaut was once accidentally exposed to hard vacuum. After 14 seconds they passed out. They were repressurized and lived, with minimal injuries.
* Had he not exhaled in the first couple seconds of exposure, he could have sustained major internal injuries. Your lungs can rupture, which propels molecules of air through your various internal tissues. This is ugly. Emptying your lungs faster than the pressure can tear them prevents this "Explosive Decompression".
* It takes 90 seconds for your blood to start "boiling" from hard-vacuum depressurization. Boiling is a misleading term. The water in your tissues turn to vapor because the boiling point is below room temperature in total vacuum. Rather than cooking, you radiate off you heat rapidly and can actually freeze. Your tissues bloat, and some bruising occurs, especially in the eyes. It is extremely unlikely that blood will leak out your eyes like you see in film.
* In outerspace, at high earth orbit, the side of you that's in the sun will reach 248F (120C). At the same time, the parts of you in the shade could get as cold as -148F (-100C).
* For comparison, the coldest parts of antarctica have a mean temperature in the winter season of -94F (-70C).
* Adrift between the solar systems, you'd end up a the rather cold temp of 2.7 Kalvin (thats -234 Celsius) which means you're kept above absolute zero as a result of background cosmic radiation. Getting that cold would take a very long time, as your atomic motion would have to slow and the heat radiate out.
* Re-entry subjects you to a temperature of a little over 1400 Celsius.
* By comparison, lava flows are around 1200 Celsius, and Stratovolcano domes are around 900 Celsius.
* I was unable to find data that indicates how long it takes a human to re-enter the atmosphere, or how long they'd be at the pinnacle of 1400 degrees.
I should list my sources. Either I am an evil supergenius who flung people and thermometers into outerspace today, or I consulted these websites:
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=741
http://www.livescience.com/mysteries/061201_space_temperature.html
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question540.htm
http://www.antarcticconnection.com/antarctic/weather/index.shtml
http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/frequent_questions/grp8/question1548.html
(and a few others I forgot to bookmark)
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