Safari Ship

[wbnc]

200 is one of those sweet spots in the setting. Just big enough to be useful, small enough to be easily crewed by a party. One pilot, one engineer.

Don't forget a navigator if you have a jump drive (not that the pilot couldn't also be a navigator).

well, there is that situation. with the addition of smuggling compartments in the new rules you can add the niches without having to wing it

Not new to the new version. They where around in Book 6: Scoundrel.

I was thinking about the crew on our old work boats. The skipper was helmsman, navigator and radio operator all in one. If push came to shove one person could handle the ship but someone was always around to tend the engines. Seems no one wants to spend money on having an extra body on board just to handle the electronics etc... I wouldn't want to run a ship for any extended period with just two men aboard. the work load would wear on them after a while.

Book6 is one of the ones I do not have... one of these days I'll flesh out my collection properly.

 

[Condottiere]

Two hundred was a sweet spot because it's the lowest alphabet drive/engine combo, that's why you have a low speed yacht.

A cheaper variant, if anyone had thought of it, would have been two two million schmucker hulls combined into a catamaran.