My players are thinking about rescuing some pirates from the nasty Imperials (Drinax: The Game of Sun & Shadow) and so naturally I thought I'd better familiarise myself with the deck plans just in case there's a boarding action of some sort.
Looking at the picture it's clear that the Galoof is an odd shape; taller that it is wide by a considerable margin. Here's a pic.
It's listed as a 30,000 dton hull and that translates to 405,000 m3 (on the 3m x 3m x 1.5m = 1 dton scale). It's not a box though - it has sloping sides and gaps around. If I were to guess the dimensions at the highest, widest and longest (and ignoring the sticking out drives on the sides) it might be 40m wide x 100m high x 150m long. That's 600,000 m3 and I figure that feels about right for a block of marble that you'd sculpt down to the actual 405,000 m3 ship.
The deck plans in the Drinax 3 book however seem to be considerably different. Looking at Deck 5 the width is 20 squares by a length of 42 squares. The key shows each square to be 7.5m x 7.5m so that's 150m wide by 315m long. I'll take that as the widest and longest dimensions. However there are "only" 8 decks and even at a generous 15m per deck (same relative scale as usual deck plans of two squares high) that's only 120m high. That's a block of marble of 150m wide x 120m high x 315m long for 5,670,000 m3 which works out to be 420,000 dtons. Oops. It's not only on its side it's 14 times too big. If it's only a 3m high deck (as per normal plans) it's 150m wide x 24m high x 315m long which is smaller but flat as a pancake. It's very possible I've stuffed up something but not that I can see.
So the deck plans are not right given the picture provided - even if I just change the scale of the deck plans to fit the tonnage the ship is still flatter than it is wide. I thought I'd have a go and some better plan dimensions.
I will assume that the picture is correct. In the The Game of Sun & Shadow adventure the megafreighter (as shown in the picture) is "... a standard megafreighter – her crew section sits like a little bubble atop gargantuan fuel tanks, titanic jump drives, and a mountain of 2,000-dton cargo containers". The picture seems to suggest otherwise. The top massive superstructure looks like the cargo, with the non cargo lumped underneath (and ignoring the drives out the sides).
Next I consider the relative tonnage of the different parts of the ship. Drives are 3555 tons, fuel is 9105 tons, and the bridge, staterooms, common areas, and other accessible areas are 1142 tons with the shuttles taking up 950 tons. Multiplying everything by 13.5 (3m x 3m x 1.5m = 1 dton) that's a crew area of approx 15,417 m3 and a shuttle bay of approx 12,825 m3.
I'm really only interested in the crew areas, and maybe the docking areas. The rest of the ship is massive (the cargo bay must be cavernous if it can hold multiple pirate ships in nets) and I can just pick random corridors or engineering bay corners if anyone goes outside the crew areas. So with that in mind, and looking at the picture, the bridge and crew areas are probably at the front with the shuttles using the large door at the bottom of the nose. The crew areas look to be about 30m wide and the shuttle area about 21 m. The height might be 15m for shuttles and 18m for crew areas (all nicely divisible by 3 for deck planning purposes).
The shuttle bay volume is therefore very approximately 21m x 15m x 42m deep = 13,230 m3 or 980 tons. That's about right, and well within the 10% margin or error for deck plans. (Waving hands about the shuttle having a 30m wingspan - perhaps they fold up?). I'll make it a shuttle clothesline with each just having enough space to dock into it's spot. Or like bread in a toaster or something.
Now to the interesting bit. The crew areas are very approximately 30m wide x 18m high x 30m deep = 16200 m3 or 1200 tons. Again just larger that the 1142 tons on the specs. 18m high means it's 6 decks high and each deck is 30m x 30m.
(Note: I've been working this out as I go along writing this post. It's been quite organic in that regard, and I've just remembered something cool. I'll explain in the next paragraph).
I'm very very impressed with the Starship Geomorphs from Robert Pearce's "Yet Another Traveller Blog" (http://travellerrpgblog.blogspot.com/). He's released many in a PDF form and there are all kinds of interconnecting deck plans. Each is 30m x 30m (except the 15x30 and 15x15 ones for edges and corners) which is perfect. I've just solved the deck plan problem. I can use six geomorph deck plans for the crew portions of the Galoof - I just need to pick a Bridge one and five others with staterooms and common areas and there's the Galoof deck plans sorted out. I might tinker with the edges (there won''t be doors opening to space) but it's close enough.
Happy for comments.
Looking at the picture it's clear that the Galoof is an odd shape; taller that it is wide by a considerable margin. Here's a pic.

It's listed as a 30,000 dton hull and that translates to 405,000 m3 (on the 3m x 3m x 1.5m = 1 dton scale). It's not a box though - it has sloping sides and gaps around. If I were to guess the dimensions at the highest, widest and longest (and ignoring the sticking out drives on the sides) it might be 40m wide x 100m high x 150m long. That's 600,000 m3 and I figure that feels about right for a block of marble that you'd sculpt down to the actual 405,000 m3 ship.
The deck plans in the Drinax 3 book however seem to be considerably different. Looking at Deck 5 the width is 20 squares by a length of 42 squares. The key shows each square to be 7.5m x 7.5m so that's 150m wide by 315m long. I'll take that as the widest and longest dimensions. However there are "only" 8 decks and even at a generous 15m per deck (same relative scale as usual deck plans of two squares high) that's only 120m high. That's a block of marble of 150m wide x 120m high x 315m long for 5,670,000 m3 which works out to be 420,000 dtons. Oops. It's not only on its side it's 14 times too big. If it's only a 3m high deck (as per normal plans) it's 150m wide x 24m high x 315m long which is smaller but flat as a pancake. It's very possible I've stuffed up something but not that I can see.
So the deck plans are not right given the picture provided - even if I just change the scale of the deck plans to fit the tonnage the ship is still flatter than it is wide. I thought I'd have a go and some better plan dimensions.
I will assume that the picture is correct. In the The Game of Sun & Shadow adventure the megafreighter (as shown in the picture) is "... a standard megafreighter – her crew section sits like a little bubble atop gargantuan fuel tanks, titanic jump drives, and a mountain of 2,000-dton cargo containers". The picture seems to suggest otherwise. The top massive superstructure looks like the cargo, with the non cargo lumped underneath (and ignoring the drives out the sides).
Next I consider the relative tonnage of the different parts of the ship. Drives are 3555 tons, fuel is 9105 tons, and the bridge, staterooms, common areas, and other accessible areas are 1142 tons with the shuttles taking up 950 tons. Multiplying everything by 13.5 (3m x 3m x 1.5m = 1 dton) that's a crew area of approx 15,417 m3 and a shuttle bay of approx 12,825 m3.
I'm really only interested in the crew areas, and maybe the docking areas. The rest of the ship is massive (the cargo bay must be cavernous if it can hold multiple pirate ships in nets) and I can just pick random corridors or engineering bay corners if anyone goes outside the crew areas. So with that in mind, and looking at the picture, the bridge and crew areas are probably at the front with the shuttles using the large door at the bottom of the nose. The crew areas look to be about 30m wide and the shuttle area about 21 m. The height might be 15m for shuttles and 18m for crew areas (all nicely divisible by 3 for deck planning purposes).
The shuttle bay volume is therefore very approximately 21m x 15m x 42m deep = 13,230 m3 or 980 tons. That's about right, and well within the 10% margin or error for deck plans. (Waving hands about the shuttle having a 30m wingspan - perhaps they fold up?). I'll make it a shuttle clothesline with each just having enough space to dock into it's spot. Or like bread in a toaster or something.
Now to the interesting bit. The crew areas are very approximately 30m wide x 18m high x 30m deep = 16200 m3 or 1200 tons. Again just larger that the 1142 tons on the specs. 18m high means it's 6 decks high and each deck is 30m x 30m.
(Note: I've been working this out as I go along writing this post. It's been quite organic in that regard, and I've just remembered something cool. I'll explain in the next paragraph).
I'm very very impressed with the Starship Geomorphs from Robert Pearce's "Yet Another Traveller Blog" (http://travellerrpgblog.blogspot.com/). He's released many in a PDF form and there are all kinds of interconnecting deck plans. Each is 30m x 30m (except the 15x30 and 15x15 ones for edges and corners) which is perfect. I've just solved the deck plan problem. I can use six geomorph deck plans for the crew portions of the Galoof - I just need to pick a Bridge one and five others with staterooms and common areas and there's the Galoof deck plans sorted out. I might tinker with the edges (there won''t be doors opening to space) but it's close enough.
Happy for comments.