The way skills handle it, being good with pistols or with SMGs has the same disparity of skill as being good with halberd or longsword or rapier+dagger. But there is a pit of experience between bladed (dagger) or bladed (2 handed sword), but there isn't really as much between two pistols that just require a general know-how of hand guns.
It's not. It had Earth-made energy weapons but there are few functioning weapons and cells left after the mutiny and what followed. So the metalworkers started making crude firearms to satisfy the demand for weapons. Different metalworkers have different ideas, preferences, and skills, hence different types and styles.
No. Looks interesting, thanks.
The setting is what we're working on right now, so ask away.
Yes.
Regression.
Resources to do what? The ship's denizens don't build anything, don't manufacture much, don't develop new industries, etc. It's an ant farm.
The focus is not on what Earth was like when the ship left hundreds of years ago but on the post-mutiny ship. Obviously, the ship didn't need any currency or division of wealth when it was launched, but there is a need for it now, which is a different story, unrelated to Earth. We'll use stamped platinum squares for currency.
It's not a state of the art ship, the finest achievement of mankind, but a retrofitted cargo ship aka 'money don't grow on trees'. It doesn't have a nervous system or anything fancy like that. The mechs were man-operated and deployed during the mutiny. Most were destroyed.
Combat will always be the hardest way.
Details?
By wrong options you mean what? Got into a fight you shouldn't have? Absolutely.
Not really. Both require you to handle recoil - SMG recoil is actually a much lesser issue than pistol recoil because the gun is heavier and is built to handle recoil. Which is why I'd only make distinction between recoil-kinetic weapons and recoiless-energy weapons, because of the difference in handling them and the difference in ballistics and aiming.
