WHULorigan's latest activity

  • WHULorigan
    WHULorigan reacted to Arkathan's post in the thread Adventure-Class Ships with Like Like.
    A cruise ship is more relevant to interstellar travel than airline flights. Airline flights are closer to planet to moons/space stations...
  • WHULorigan
    WHULorigan reacted to NOLATrav's post in the thread Adventure-Class Ships with Like Like.
    Ok so I don’t really get the tonnage breakpoints either and quite frankly I don’t like the kludge of certain high tonnages being immune...
  • WHULorigan
    WHULorigan reacted to AnotherDilbert's post in the thread Adventure-Class Ships with Like Like.
    Looks reasonable compared to peoples salaries, see starship crews. A Mid Passage is about two months salary for an Engineer, compare...
  • WHULorigan
    WHULorigan reacted to Vormaerin's post in the thread Adventure-Class Ships with Like Like.
    4+distance for the Astrogator. So a typical far trader jump is 6+ for the Astrogator. So, yeah, you can do various things to get a +4...
  • WHULorigan
    WHULorigan reacted to Vormaerin's post in the thread Adventure-Class Ships with Like Like.
    The Imperial Core didn't actually exist except notionally at that time. But this is the THIRD Imperium, so space travel has been...
  • WHULorigan
    WHULorigan replied to the thread Adventure-Class Ships.
    I wonder if that quote was originally intended to be an Imperium-wide reference, or more characteristic of the Imperial Core in...
  • WHULorigan
    WHULorigan reacted to Sigtrygg's post in the thread Adventure-Class Ships with Like Like.
    According to canon, if you want to see what typical shipping looks like than go to the only resource that covered it in any depth, The...
  • WHULorigan
    WHULorigan reacted to mavikfelna's post in the thread Adventure-Class Ships with Like Like.
    One of my favorite designs I've gotten to run was an Animal class safari ship refitted for expedition work, and the getting the sensors...
  • WHULorigan
    WHULorigan reacted to tytalan's post in the thread Adventure-Class Ships with Like Like.
    I like this definition from the Starship Operations Manual “ Any ship of less than 2,500 displacement tons is sometimes referred to as...
  • WHULorigan
    WHULorigan replied to the thread Adventure-Class Ships.
    Under T5, it would be a Transport (Unscheduled Cargo/Freight). The Safari Ship and Expeditionary Vessel are mutual variants of the...
  • WHULorigan
    WHULorigan reacted to rinku's post in the thread Adventure-Class Ships with Like Like.
    Oh, I didn't say was... just that it's a term that's similarly vague and is not based on size, but rather activity. Also, it was a real...
  • WHULorigan
    WHULorigan reacted to rinku's post in the thread Adventure-Class Ships with Like Like.
    It doesn't need to be codified any more exact than the term "tramp freighter". While historically those tended to be ships on the...
  • WHULorigan
    WHULorigan replied to the thread Adventure-Class Ships.
    I actually drop BCS to 2,500. I just rounded it for the post.
  • WHULorigan
    WHULorigan replied to the thread Adventure-Class Ships.
    I also happen to like the conceit: NAVAL TERMINOLOGY: ACS = Auxiliary Class (Up to 2,500 tons) - Minor & Escort Combatants/Tertiaries...
  • WHULorigan
    WHULorigan replied to the thread Adventure-Class Ships.
    The 2,400 ton cutoff derives from T5, which is also where the term "Adventure Class Ship" (ACS) and "Battle Class Ship" (BCS) (i.e...
Show older items
Back
Top