[High Guard] Small Craft Cabin Space

[Golan2072]

High Guard p.61 lists cabin space as 1.5 tons per passenger (costing MCr0.05), which, considering 14m^3 per ton, would be 21m^3 space per passenger, probably including life support machinery.

However, CT's High Guard lists 0.5 tons (costing MCr0.025) per passenger including an acceleration couch and life support, which would be 7m^3 per passenger.

So I'm considering using the vanilla MGT-HG stats for comfortable (think first/business class) and/or long-duration passenger accommodations, and the CT tonnage/cost for shorter-duration (up to 12 hours? up to 24 hours?) simpler accommodations (think military dropship).

Does it sound reasonable?

 

[rust]

I encountered this problem just yesterday, when I designed some small
craft for my setting.

The 1.5 dton per passenger seat of Mongoose Traveller High Guard see-
med a bit too much for me, so I turned to my "alternative technology sy-
stem" (GURPS Vehicles) to see what it would produce.
There a "roomy" passenger seat requires 40 cubic feet, and the life sup-
port system requires another 10 cubic feet per passenger. Add all the
other features, and this does not yet add up to 1 dton per passenger.
GURPS Traveller Starships has passenger couch modules with 10 seats
per 500 cubic feet / 1 dton.

Looking at this, I decided that 1.0 dton per passenger seat would make
the small craft I designed quite comfortable, even luxurious.

 

[simonh]

So I'm considering using the vanilla MGT-HG stats for comfortable (think first/business class) and/or long-duration passenger accommodations, and the CT tonnage/cost for shorter-duration (up to 12 hours? up to 24 hours?) simpler accommodations (think military dropship).

That looks reasonable to me. 1.5 dTons per person for journeys of up to a few days, or 0.5 dtons for acceleration couches good for journeys of less than 24 hours.

Starships have a minimum journey time of 1 week so this gives a reaasonable 'sliding scale'.

Simon Hibbs

 

[Infojunky]

In general I am going with the half ton acceleration couch as the standard, adding small cabins for long term as per earlier editions.

 

[fireyphoenix22]

Hey all,

Shouldn't passengers at least get an acceleration couch at .5 dt.
Then, as the thread points out, Small craft cabin space is an additional
1.5 dt.

IMTU: Small craft staterooms gets a wommping 2 dt. w/ double occupancy.

Thats 1 dt per person, ofcourse bunkbeds are the norm.

 

[Dave Chase]

Interesting discussion, it seems to come up every once in a while.

For space (volume) issues or Ergonomics take a look at how AMTRACK puts passengers in their cars

http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Amtrak/am2Copy/Title_Image_Copy_Page&c=am2Copy&cid=1080080554190&ssid=142

That might help with some of the visualization of space use.

Dave Chase