Recent content by Sageryne

Hi all, Mike Vilardi created some great Traveller art, particularly in the Digest Group Publications MegaTraveller books. I even contacted him once and bought two of his original Star Wars pieces. I was looking around to see if he was doing any other projects. He has a Deviant Art page...

Hi MasterGwydion, Do you also increase the cost of shipping and passenger travel? If there is one golden rule in a capitalist society, no one does something for free. A ship's captain will total up all their costs (including maintenance, whatever it is), slap on a profit margin, and bill it all...

My original post was about using the real world situations to help develop adventure ideas for Traveller games. Whether it is in the rules or not shouldn’t stop you from coming up with interesting and engaging ideas for role-playing. Rules are there to guide you. They can never cover...

That assumes you are in the vacuum of space. If your ship is in and out of atmosphere, there is the fiery re-entry, and then sitting at the starport. At very least you will be dealing with rust, not even considering hostile or insidious atmospheres. Also, if you look at the international space...

Hi all, I stumbled across a series of YouTube video on modern ship building. While watching them, I realised that many of the issues brought up in these videos would have close analogues in Traveller: Why only certain places build ships: This is a good explanation why it only makes economic...

I agree the rule as written requires no shipyard workers, but when I write this up, I will be including the same as required by the space station shipyard (and the same higher price for building jump capable ships).

Hi Fluffy Bunny Feet, In the third sentence of the description, I stated: "Early in the 900s, IISS identified the need for mid-sized, purposed-built, long-ranged vessels designed specifically to support survey work in and beyond the Third Imperium." - Kerry

Hi wintertraveller, Thank you for the kind review. I don't disagree with the naming. I was just following how it was named in the Traveller T20 EPIC Adventure 5 - Scout Cruiser. - Kerry

One addendum, I was thinking a mobile shipyard would look something like this concept art from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, with the "ship" being the part at the top, and the external frame being the two "side walls." I envision the sidewalls folding up into the belly of the mobile shipyard...

Hi all, I want to build a mobile shipyard. I started a separate thread asking about the best dimensions for a construction deck. https://forum.mongoosepublishing.com/threads/most-useful-shape-for-a-mobile-shipyard.125982/ The general consensus is that no two designs of the same nominal...

Perhaps it would have been clearer if I had used a different word. What I am saying is that starships would be built of smaller "BLOCKS" of components and then PERMANENTLY welded together to make the larger starship. Just like almost every ocean-going vessel on Earth today. This is a video of...

I do think you would build the ship in modules in a controlled environment and then move it out to the shipyard and weld it into the main hull.

Just out of curiosity, I quickly measured the deck plans of the two 1000-dTon destroyer escorts in High Guard. The Chrysanthemum was (roughly) 15m high x 56.25m wide x 90m long. A box 75,937.5m^3 or 5625-dTons. The Fer-de-lance was roughly 15m high x 51m wide x 106.5m long. A box 81,472.5m^3...

Fair enough if you are just writing up specs, but I am planning to produce deck plans for the ship. That is why I asked.

A foldable mobile shipyard makes a lot of sense. Figuring out how to render it in High Guard is another question. I do like the idea of expanding to enclose a damaged ship. I am open to any suggestions of how to do that in High Guard. I had planned to use a lot of workpods like this...