IMTU 20 dTon J1 corpsicle hauler
- Thread starter MarcusIII
- Start date
What’s the purpose of this? It’s obvious that is completely ignores High Guard and most other Traveller rules. I’m just wondering why you posted this?
Sigtrygg
Emperor Mongoose
Probably because it is clearly stated it is for his universe. There are many people who do not slavishly apply every detail of the Third Imperium to their own Traveller setting.
There are many settings, Traveller was designed to be a toolkit to make your setting your own.
As an example if your setting is more akin to Star Wars then smallcraft capable of ftl are commonplace.
There are many settings, Traveller was designed to be a toolkit to make your setting your own.
As an example if your setting is more akin to Star Wars then smallcraft capable of ftl are commonplace.
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
But a week long.
MarcusIII
Cosmic Mongoose
It's all grist for the GMs mill.
. Maybe the Ancients could make J capable ships that small.MasterGwydion
Emperor Mongoose
Yeah, IMTU Ship Shares are just counted as investment capital, so you can use them to buy commercial vehicles/equipment, such as Mining Bots.
I use this as my basis for allowing this change.
MarcusIII
Cosmic Mongoose
Reread the Title. IMTU
MasterGwydion
Emperor Mongoose
Yeah, I noticed that you ditched the minimum 5-ton for jump equipment thing, but I never used to use that. I didn't mention it because IYTU the rules can be whatever you want them to be. I have started using the minimum tonnage rule for the last several years, but that is a relatively recent development on my part. I still kept the minimum 100-ton vessel for jump, but just scrapped the 5-dton minimum.
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
If I were to adjust that, I'd place the minimum at one hull point.
Fluffy Bunny Feet
Emperor Mongoose
There is a loop hole for less than 100 ton ships. Carrying the extra tonnage externally. A J5 ship that is 50 tons but has a 50 ton drop tank. A ship that is a jump tug for smaller craft or a Jump Net.
MarcusIII
Cosmic Mongoose
I have a 10 ton min "bridge" for 100 dTon Jump ships, most of that being jump electronics. 5 dTon for non Jump 100Dton ships.
actionman
Emperor Mongoose
That is truly the ultimate.
Thank you for speaking for MarcusIII since you don’t believe he can speak for himself
As for slavishly apply I don’t consider HG as a Charted Space Splat book like you do
Maybe be I should reframe my question. Why would anyone build a jump ship specifically to carry corpses from one system to another? Now I’ll freely admit that I think giving a ship this small jump makes no sense to me this is not a Charted Space opinion it has more to do with travel times now if you listed hyper drive or stated a Jump only takes a day or two I could more easily see it. So I’m interested do you have jump fighters in your setting your rules indicate you should, how about jump missiles if jump drive has no minimum size seems like that would be the ultimate weapon.
Fluffy Bunny Feet
Emperor Mongoose
Corpsicles are not dead they are cryogenically frozen for later reanimation. His tonnage matches low berths as does the price.
actionman
Emperor Mongoose
Returning fallen soldiers from the wilds beyond the borders. Bounty hunters transporting quarries.
Sigtrygg
Emperor Mongoose
You are very welcome I am happy to help.
Where are the rules for stutterwarp? Why is every ship example from the Third Imperium setting?
Sigtrygg
Emperor Mongoose
yes that would be a good idea.
Many reasons, but you may want to go back and read the OP - corpsicles is slang for living passengers carried in low berths. So your question, while interesting, is not relevant to the design.
This is entirely dependent on how you rate hyper drives and warp drives etc. A jump 1 drive moves a ship one parse in seven days which is 170 x the speed of light. Rate that in Star Trek warp numbers..,
How would a jump missile be an ultimate weapon? In your opinion.
