A 100 dton Merchant Vessel

[PFVA63]

Hi,

A while ago I drew uo some deck plans for a small 100 dton merchant vessel, based off a different set of Traveller ship design rules. Recently, with the aid of a spreadsheet posted by Apoc527 on these boards, I decided to try and convert the design over to Mongoose Rules.

Here is a link to the deck plans (updated for Mongoose) that I came up with and a brief write up of the ship, if anyone is interested.

Regards

PF

http://members.cox.net/psjn/Trav/Pocket Trader C.pdf

[Edit] Corrected Url to latest revision[/Edit]

 

[rust]

A nice ship, and thank you for the interesting detailed explanation of the
design process.

 

[Captain Jonah]

Ahhhh. Its cute

And good job on the ship and writeup. Nice work.

 

[DFW]

Nice design and drawing.

 

[dragonladytoo]

Nice writeup and drawings.

I could see using this for some small planet interactions!

Thanks

 

[CosmicGamer]

Thank you for sharing PFVA63.

 

[Cleon the Mad]

I like it. What I also like is how it looks somewhat like a "Fat Trader", the 400 dTon Subsidised (SP I know) Merchant. That to me gives it a bit of continuity in an OTU setting, the architect could have either been inspired by the Fat Trader, or perhaps were part of the same firm that designed the Fat Trader depending on how one wanted to impliment in someone's TU.

Anyway, neat ship. As an aside I also like how it doesn't cost too much more then a Type S Scout.

 

[Charakan]

Very Impressive, thanks for sharing, it provides a nice alternative to the scoutship for campaigns with a low number of PCs.

 

[PFVA63]

Thanks for all the comments and responses. I hadn't really thought much about the Fat Trader, but now that you mention it there does kind of seem to be a family type resemblence.

Regards

PF

 

[Mithras]

That's a lovely little ship! Which stateroom is the pilots? Are there more staterooms for optional crew? What's the typical passenger complement?

 

[PFVA63]

In the original ruleset that was used for the design, I think the ship only had a crew of one. however, if I am understanding the Mongoose rules correctly, I think that the ship might need two crew.

As such, the curent drawings show the two forward staterooms for the crew. The most forward one (shown in green in the image below) is for the pilot. The next forward one (shown in blue below) is for the 2nd crew member, if carried.

The sliding door (shown in Magenta) separates the crew staterooms from the passenger cabins. If the ship could be operated only by a single crew member then this magenta colored door could be moved forward one square, placing the blue cabin into the passenger space.

If the ship has two crew then it can carry 4 passengers in staterooms and 6 passengers in low berths. On the other hand if the ship can be only operated by 1 crew member then the ship could carry 5 passengers in staterooms and 6 in low berths.

Regards

PF

 

[AndrewW]

If the ship has two crew then it can carry 4 passengers in staterooms and 6 passengers in low berths. On the other hand if the ship can be only operated by 1 crew member then the ship could carry 5 passengers in staterooms and 6 in low berths.

alternately 8 or 10 passengers with double occupancy. Also the crew could double up so even with two crew could still carry up to 10 passengers in the staterooms.

 

[Mithras]

Cool. Can I propose Type AL (light free trader).

I have need of this ship! I want to 'gift' my players with a ship, as a reward for conducting a mission. A merchant ship will be great, but I don't want to give them anything too big really.

The mission is for the navy, jumping into a hostile enemy system to look for a spy ship that has gone missing (disguised as an asteroid). The pocket trader will be converted by the navy for the stealth mission, with black stealth paint and the passenger staterooms removed and replaced with a radical coolant system to reduce emissions to background levels for a few hours.

Of course the coolant system will run out, or not work properly, and the PCs will have to fight their way out of the enemy system ...

 

[dayriff]

So with no streamlined hull, what does it do on planets without a highport?

 

[AndrewW]

So with no streamlined hull, what does it do on planets without a highport?

Streamlining isn't required to land on a planet. Though I wouldn't try it with a distributed hull. But even if the planet is one of many that lack a highport there may still be shuttles that can service ships in orbit.

 

[BP]

Also - this design is obviously streamlined...

 

[PFVA63]

The intent is that the ship has a lifting body/flotation type hull which I had thought was streamlined. I can double check later to make sure that I didn't enter something wrong in the spreadsheet.

Regards

PF

 

[PFVA63]

I looked over my calcs and I think I see where the misunderstanding might have come from. I inadvertantly didn't click "streamlined" for the hull type in Apoc527's spreadsheet, so that the cost I posted in my writeup is off by 0.2MCr. I have been considering a couple other changes as well, so later, when I get a chance I will update the PDF to correctly reflect the true cost for having the hull streamlined.

Sorry for the oversight on my part.

Regards

PF

 

[Mithras]

Please let us know when the update is up.

 

[PFVA63]

Mithras,

No problems, will do. Plrasr let me know if there is anything else that you could use for your scenario. I might try and render up a copy of the ship in black to see what it looks like.

Regards

PF