Darrian scouts or traders?

[SJE]

Are there any TL16 scouts or traders published anywhere?

Thx.

SJE

 

[zero]

Hi, Darrians tend to use TL 13 ships (as noted in their supplement) and are currently having their ships replaced by TL 15 Imperial-built ships thanks to trading technology with them.

TL 16 ships exist, but these will be the Ancient Relic ships the Special Arm will be sent after, or that they pilot themselves.

Also, Special Arm go about in demilitarised TL 16 merchant ships to hold the Star Trigger, with the dimensions given for a Trigger when the Maghiz happened, you'd need a Capital Ship sized Cargo Bay so these kind of ships are only good for Bases for the characters in your games really, who are escorted by a TL 15 fleet and perhaps one or two of the found TL 16 Relic ships.

If its a free trader game youre looking to do a ship for, just find a ship thats TL 13-15. The Darrians supplement ships are all TL 13 and fine to start a game with.

 

[SJE]

I was thinking if having a pre-Maghiz AI-driven ship absconding with itself and having the Special Arm pursuing it and the PCs who it's picked as crew.

 

[zero]

In that case you'd have to build the ship yourself. Some guidelines are given for them (ie the ship creation chapter tells what is roughly in the TL 16 ships found so far).

The worst thing is that it will be near-impossible for you to make a profitable TL 16 ship if you plan to use it as a trading vessel rather than basic transportation. Even with mortgage out of the way due to the PCs yoinking it, the Maintenance costs will still be an issue.

 

[daryen]

Besides which, if the ship (and its PCs) are being actively hunted, they will need something to disguise it. I have to imagine most Darrian TL16 ships pretty much visually scream out, "LOOK AT ME!! I AM A DARRIAN TL16 SHIP!!"

 

[zero]

I imagine it would be something like the main picture on this tv trope entry;

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CoolStarship

8)

My own Darrian PCs ship, a military TL 15 Imperial-build, is more like the Space Battleship Yamato in appearance (after deckplanning the thing, the thing looked just like it. It also has a single Fusion Gun Bay for its wav motion gun 8) ).