Lab ships okay to use in new Classic TAS adventure?

[Mark Suszko]

I'm excited to publish a new Classic Traveller adventure under the new TAS program, but I can't get an answer to one issue: the template offers a standard Beowulf Type trader deckplan, but my adventure requires the circular Lab Ship; is the Lab ship deckplan from Death Station allowed in these adventures, or will I have to build my own, bespoke design? And if the original circular Lab Ship is allowed, where do I get an approved copy?

 

[Arkathan]

The template is an example providing the required format. Not a limit on what you can make.
Making your own is not that hard.
The one below is non-commercial use only, due to the component images being from Robert Pearce's work.

 

[shirgall]

Making the Callisto class usable in classic Traveller and T5 should be pretty straightforward.

While I love the quality of the deckplan in Arkathan's post, and the free module Death Station, the Calendula has some quirks in its layout that really needed to be overcome. The docking ring and the spoke needed an elevator landing in the outer ring. The air/raft docking bays are a little awkward in placement and size if you really want bulkhead walls. I understand not having airlocks in a ring you might spin, but those berths should be set up as airlocks. The path around the ring really should have biased heavily to one side. The bridge and secondary bridge should have an outside view. There should have been a lot more windows. The spoke really should have been closer to the cargo bay. The hardpoints and the rooms servicing them should be on both sides of the ring. While the Calendula was set up for medical research, those hardpoints should have had sensor gear in them!

I plan to put out a printing guide (maybe in TAS format?) on using 2nd Dynasty components to make a lab ship deck plan some day. This is where we ended up on game night this week (no I didn't have time to make the pods where I put the M drives and power plants--I put the jump drives on the main ring level):

 

[Mark Suszko]

The template is an example providing the required format. Not a limit on what you can make.
Making your own is not that hard.
The one below is non-commercial use only, due to the component images being from Robert Pearce's work.View attachment 2902

So, if I use the lab ship, but replace the artwork for the drives and such in my deckplan, I can publish my TAS adventure and charge for it?

 

[Arkathan]

Yes*, AND DTRPG has free TAS templates that include component images for a number of systems
Should be these:
TAS 2d Deckplan Templates at DTRPG

*Disclaimer: not a lawyer and not associated with Mongoose, so my emphatic YES has the full legal force of an, "I think so."