The Universe of Babylon 5 for Traveller

[pasuuli]

as a Traveller person - is that how the Trav system works or are they odd examples - the ships seem to have any odd shaped/ difficult to map bits filled with "fuel?" Makes it easier I guess?

Some do things this way, some don't. Your guess is probably correct.

Looking at Ships such as the Vorchan - it will be a hard thing to make up the deck plan - they are very big so I am thinking much of the centre structre is crew / primary systems / engines with avionics, sensors and weapons crammed into the 4 wings?

Perhaps some decks can be "duplicated"? (i.e. for decks twelve, fifteen, and thirty-two, please use deck plan XYZ) But otherwise, deckplanning really big ships is out of my league. Maybe some parts are more interesting than others.

 

[Da Boss]

Glanced at the previews of Trav ships and it seemed that anything that was a odd shape on the ship just gets filled with "fuel"? Does that mean the Minbari and Centauri ships will have huge areas awash with fuel :shock: or that the Omega's central spinning part is actually just a mixer? :lol:

We have current vehicles that do that. buell motorcycles use the frame as a fuel tank, and use the swingarm as the oil tank.

LBH

I presume Traveller fuel is not flamable so the whole ship is not surrounded by explosive fuel?

 

[AKAramis]

Glanced at the previews of Trav ships and it seemed that anything that was a odd shape on the ship just gets filled with "fuel"? Does that mean the Minbari and Centauri ships will have huge areas awash with fuel :shock: or that the Omega's central spinning part is actually just a mixer? :lol:

We have current vehicles that do that. buell motorcycles use the frame as a fuel tank, and use the swingarm as the oil tank.

LBH

I presume Traveller fuel is not flamable so the whole ship is not surrounded by explosive fuel?

It's Liquid Hydrogen... in the right oxygen mixture, it's explosive. Otherwise, it just burns quite well in an Oxygen mixture. And rather hot flame, at that.

 

[Ferrit]

Conveniently space doesn't contain much Oxygen so not too much of a risk with fuel on the outer edges of a ship.

Now if hydrogen leaked in to the habitat areas...

 

[Valarian]

Conveniently space doesn't contain much Oxygen so not too much of a risk with fuel on the outer edges of a ship.

Now if hydrogen leaked in to the habitat areas...

This is why, in Traveller, you tend to depressurise the ship before entering combat.

 

[Input Jack]

Conveniently space doesn't contain much Oxygen so not too much of a risk with fuel on the outer edges of a ship.

Now if hydrogen leaked in to the habitat areas...

This is why, in Traveller, you tend to depressurise the ship before entering combat.

Huh. I did not know that was standard procedure. Thanks