Random thought - looking through some old material (Megatraveller) - found some reference to the Empire of Sindal with a pretty good run-down of their entire pre-fall navy.
Obviously it's not correct for contemporary canon, as it doesn't namecheck
Harrier-class commerce raiders or the heavier
Wyvern-class, but it's an interesting inventory of ships which might be floating around in the Thebus debris field or else in various hands, either derelict or still running, and might be useful assets for someone trying to resurrect the Dragon Throne.
It's listed in the
Traveller Wiki
Prior to the collapse the fleet consisted of:
Capital Ships:
1 Liaoning Class Carrier, 65,000 tons, 300 m long, with fifty fighters.
Built for the Sindalian Empire, this was the flagship of the fleet. It carried five squadrons of 20 ton fighters. It carried a heavy meson spinal mount but no armor and limited agility. There were back up screens and a model 7 fib computer. The marine platoons had four air rafts and four attack speeders.
A powerful vessel, the ship mounted:
[Presumably the Meson Spinal - it's not mentioned here, though)
20 heavy missile bays,
200 triple sand caster turrets,
4 fusion gun bays,
4 particle accelerator bays,
4 repulsor bays (whatever
they are),
50 triple laser turrets.
The ship is described as TL-13, 4G, J-4, 752 crew with 65 marines
Since this ship was in a class of one ship, it's a fair guess that the ship was called the Liaoning. This was the flagship of the Sindal Star Guard; I'm sure some sort of rumour of its survival has to be a thing, and might make for an interesting adventure. The air/rafts are standard 4-tonners, and the attack speeders apparently 6 tonners.
69 Type 095 Shang Class Missile Cruisers, 13,800 tons, 110 m long
Built for the Sindalian Empire, the Shang Class Missile Cruiser was streamlined with scoops and purification for ocean refueling. It carried a 20 ton gig, light armor and no meson spinal mount but had average agility. There was a back up model 7 fib computer. The marine platoons had four air rafts and four attack speeders.
A powerful vessel, the ship mounted:
10 heavy missile bays,
4 triple sand caster turrets,
1 fusion gun bay,
1 particle accelerator bay,
1 repulsor bay and
4 triple laser turrets.
The ship is described as TL-13, 5G, J-4, 190 crew with 65 marines
This will presumably be what the bulk of the civil war was fought with. A capital ship with massed torpedo tubes is flexible, but also not great if you're at the wrong end of a logistics chain -which makes sense for Sindal's star guard since Jump-4 (which seems to have been the standard 'fleet manouvrability' level for the star guard lets you cover a fair chunk of the reach in one go). I imagine it made supply depots and arsenals a huge thing during the fall. Salvaging one of these is probably massively out of scope of a pirate group but if your PCs were to discover a derelict and figure out how to repair and re-man it Lord Wrax and the Drinaxi Star Guard may spontaneously wet themselves with glee. A detachment of 65 marines, 4 x military air rafts and 4 x attack speeders seems to be a standard force element for the Star Guard 'heavies' so you may see barracks or legacy military units organised in that fashion in militias around the reach.
26 Type 052D Yulang III Class Destroyers, 7,000 tons, 156 m long
Built for the Sindalian Empire, the Yulang III class Destroyer was partially streamlined with scoops and purification for gas giant refueling. Fitted for jump 4 and 6 G's acceleration, it carried 2 air rafts and 2 attack speeders for the marines. It had light armor, no screens and no meson spinal mount. It is somewhat under powered and as a result had average agility. There was a model 7 fib computer.
A well armed vessel, the ship mounted:
3 missile bays,
20 triple sand caster turrets,
10 dual fusion gun turrets, and
10 triple laser turrets.
The ship is described as TL-13, 6G, J-4, 105 crew with 42 marines
A slightly bigger medium capital ship. Interestingly this thing packs missile bays rather than torpedo bays; which will struggle to hurt well armoured opponents but can put out a massively superior rate of fire (36 missiles per volley from a Yulang III compared to 30 torpedoes from a much larger - nearly twice the size - Shang). Might have a significant edge when flinging stuff like multi-warhead missiles against fighter swarms, where absolute rate of fire matters more than individual weapon damage, or for bombardment with ortillery missiles when trying to provide slightly more discriminate fire support or demonstrative strikes without an accompanying mega-death atrocity
49 Type 053H Xiamen Class Frigates, 4,000 tons, 134 m long
Built for the Sindalian Empire, the Xiamen Class Frigate was partially streamlined with scoops and purification for gas giant refueling. Equipped for jump 4 and 5 G's acceleration, it carried a 2 air rafts and 2 attack speeders for the marines. It had light armor, no screens and no meson spinal mount. It is somewhat under powered and as a result had average agility. There was a powerful model 7 fib computer.
A well armed vessel, the ship mounted:
2 heavy missile bays,
10 triple sand caster turrets,
5 dual fusion gun turrets, and
5 triple laser turrets.
The ship is described as TL-13, 5G, J-4, 85 crew with 42 marines
A medium capital ship. Lots of missiles for bombing things, and some marines to search the bodies for loose change afterwards.
23 Type 056 Jiangdao Class Corvettes, 1,500 tons, 90 m long
Background: Built for the Sindalian Empire, the Jiangdao Class Corvette was partially streamlined with scoops and purification for gas giant refueling. Equipped for jump 4 and 4 G's acceleration, it carried a 2 air rafts and 2 attack speeders for the marines. It had light armor, no screens and no meson spinal mount. It is somewhat under powered and as a result had average agility. There was a powerful model 7 fib computer.
A well armed vessel, the ship mounted:
1 heavy missile bay,
2 triple sand caster turrets,
2 dual fusion gun turrets, and
1 triple laser turret.
The ship is described as TL-13, 4G, J-4, 72 crew with 42 marines
A light capital ship. Again, the Sindalian focus on big missiles as warship primary weapons. 42 x Marines, 2 x military Air/Rafts and 2 x Attack speeders seems a standard organic marine complement. I guess smaller ship lets you be in more places at once but this is really just a Xiamen that's shrunk in the wash; it's hard to come up with any advantage of the design over it's larger cousin. Note that this is a total of 168 true warships - the Sindallian Star Guard was pretty well armed!
Escorts and Patrol Vessels:
94 Project 122bis Kronshtadt Class Pursuit Ships, 325 tons, 53 m long
Built for the Sindalian Empire, the Project 122bis Kronshtadt Class Pursuit Ship was streamlined with scoops for ocean refueling. Designed by a foreign power and license built, it was intended to chase down civilian ships. It carried eleven crew with jump 3 and 6 G's acceleration, and 6 agility. It had light hull armor but only a model 5 fib computer.
The ship mounted:
two triple missile turrets and
a triple pulse laser turret for defense
The ship is described as TL-13, 6G, J-3, 11 crew with 2 marines
Even faster than the Houbei and armoured, it's again very much a police cutter and something the PCs could very well find themselves being shot at by. The name is obviously non-Asian-themed, which ties up with the 'foreign built' comment - Baltic names tend to be Sword Worlder in origin, don't they?
109 Type 022 Houbei Class Missile Boats, 220 tons, 43 m long
Built for the Sindalian Empire, the Houbei class Missile Boat was streamlined with scoops and purification for ocean refueling. It carried six crew with jump 4 and 5 G's acceleration, but only 2 agility. It had no defense except a powerful model 7 computer.
The ship mounted two triple missile turrets
The ship is described as TL-13, 5G, J-4, 6 crew
The fact that this is 220 dTons not 200 dTons is an artefact of the older rules. Aside from that it's basically Sindal's version of a Serpent-class police cutter, trading a point of armour and a point of thrust for jump capability
17 Type 054A Huangpu Class Gunboats, 50 tons, 25 m long
Built for the Sindalian Empire, the Huangpu Class Gunboat was streamlined cone structured hull with scoops for ocean refueling. It carried a single pilot with 6 G's acceleration, and 6 agility. It had thick armor to survive ground attacks and hits during space battles. The bridge was fitted with a model 2 computer. A few of these ships were used to defend key systems and were stationed near star ports and military bases. This craft was also called in to provide close fire support for marines
The ship mounted a powerful fusion gun mount.
The ship is described a single-man, TL-13, 6G small craft
Little more than a heavy fighter. A 50dton 'rough field' (ocean-fuelled) ship with a heavy energy mount provides (if you have a few squadrons of them squirreled away) the same sort of 'hard to pin down' threat as SDBs. This sort of thing surely is still lying around somewhere; 50 dTon TL13 ships must be well within the means of some current worlds in the Trojan reach to build. Odd that they build so few of such a small ship - although I guess since Sindal enforced the law with orbital gunfire a lot they didn't want the proles getting an effective SDB fleet
Assault Vessels:
3 Type 071 Yuzhao Class Assault Cruisers, 20,000 tons, 210 m long
Built for the Sindalian Empire, the Yuzhao Class Assault Cruiser was partially streamlined with scoops and purification for gas giant refueling. Equipped for jump 4 and 4 G's acceleration, it carried twenty 50 ton drop boats for the 1,100 marines. It had light armor and no meson spinal mount. It carried screens but was somewhat under powered and as a result had average agility. There was a powerful model 7 fib computer.
A well armed vessel, the ship mounted:
14 heavy missile bays,
1 repulsor bay,
1 particle accelerator bay,
10 triple sand caster turrets,
10 dual fusion gun turrets, and
10 triple laser turret.
The ship is described as TL-13, 4G, J-4, 1284 crew with 1100 marines
This is almost a baby carrier. With 4G, Jump-4 and the ability to refuel 'in the wild', a Yuzhao is an incredible mobile base - trade the drop boats (if it still has them) for a mix of fighters and boarding craft for impressive long-reach punch without risking the mothership itself, and a ship which could deploy a full regiment combat-ready must be able to hold a lot of booty.... 14 torpedo bays is a terrifying amount of firepower if anyone actually manages to get into combat range of you - and it matches the Sindalian doctrine of orbital bombardment - imagine them loaded with bombardment rounds; that's 42 ortillery torpedoes per volley!
58 Type 073 Yudao Class Landing Ships, 850 tons, 69 m long
Built for the Sindalian Empire, the Yudao Class Landing Ship was streamlined with scoops and purification for ocean refueling. It carried 77 crew with jump 4 and 4 G's acceleration, and 2 agility. It had no armor but had a powerful model 7 fib computer, loaded with ECM and sophisticated sensors. Four air rafts and four attack speeders were fitted for the marine platoons
The ship mounted:
four triple missile turrets,
two triple sand caster turrets and
two triple beam laser turrets.
The ship is described as TL-13, 4G, J-4, 77 crew with 65 marines
Old assault transports are easily repurposed into tough, well armoured freighters - or raiding ships with plenty of space for cargo. Crewing an assault cruiser is probably beyond the means of most pirate groups, but a refurbished Yudao isn't beyond the realms of imagination
Support Vessels:
11 Type 058A
Fedko Class Tankers, 35,900 tons, 178 m long
Built for the Sindalian Empire, the Fedko Class Fleet Tanker was streamlined cone structured hull with scoops and purification for ocean refueling. It carried 300 crew with jump 4 and 2 G's acceleration, and no agility. It had no armor but had a model 7 fib computer. This military auxiliary was some times called in to provide fire support
The ship mounted:
A powerful meson spinal mount (quite unusual for a tanker),
ten batteries of triple missile turrets,
ten batteries triple sand caster turrets,
nine dual fusion gun turrets and
seven batteries of triple beam laser turrets.
The ship is described as TL-13, 2G, J-4, 300 crew
A Fedko is a beast of a ship - it's mostly going to have to take its punishment if it's unarmoured, but even an unarmoured 35 kDton ship has (in 1e terms) 4 sections with 180 hull and structure each - sheer bulk means you can whale on it for quite some time without doing serious damage, and a spinal mount plus a fair number of offensive energy mounts means one of these things can do a fair impression of a 'proper' capital ship. A proper naval ship like the Eurisko would still kick it silly, but not much short of that
28 Type 043 Yuan Class Mine Countermeasure Ships, 500 tons, 58 m long
Built for the Sindalian Empire, the Yuan Class Mine Countermeasure Ship was streamlined with scoops and purification for ocean refueling. It carried sixteen crew with jump 4 and 1 G's acceleration, and only 1 agility. It had thick armor to survive mine attacks and a powerful model 6 computer, loaded with ECM and sophisticated sensors. Fire control allowed the lasers to engage nine small targets at the same time. Four small zero-G warbots were fitted to scout ahead of the ship during methodical mine clearing operations.
The ship mounted two triple missile turrets and
three triple beam laser turrets.
'mines' aren't really a thing in the current rules (although a long-endurance drone with weapons does the job, I guess), and the zero-g warbots would be probe drones in the current ruleset.
The ship is described as TL-13, 1G, J-4, 16 crew
232 Type 092 Qiongsha Class Fleet Auxiliary Supply Ships, 300 tons, 29 m long
Built for the Sindalian Empire, the Qiongsha Class Fleet Auxiliary Supply Ship was streamlined cone structured hull with scoops and purification for ocean refueling. It carried eight crew with jump 2 and 2 G's acceleration, and 1 agility. It had no armor but had a model 2 bis computer. This was a commercial ship re-purposed for military support duty, many were left in civilian hands after the empire fell
The ship mounted:
A triple missile turret,
a triple sand caster turret and
a triple beam laser turret.
The ship is described as TL-13, 2G, J-2, 8 crew
2G/J-2 and 300 dTons is not far off most trader hulls (albeit three triple turrets is a lot more teeth than most people expect to see!). If nothing else, throwing in the odd Qiongsha as a contact might be interesting.
