Actually, now that I think about it loose outlines to a plot is floating to my head. Basically the Germans have taken over the labship and they have control over two of the three smallcraft, a ship's boat and the fuel shuttle. With those two spacecraft, the Germans have sent up Werner Von Braun a few scientists and engineers plus the starship their and a bunch of SS guards that have learned how to use the ship's guns. The Allies have the other ship's boat and with the cooperation of the other starship thief, have learned how to pilot it. Each ship's boat has seats for 20 people including the pilot and copilot.
As it states below their are staterooms for 43 people on the labship, lets say 20 of those are SS guards with laser rifles. The ship can shoot down a ship's boat that approaches, and they know that one is in the hands of the Allies. the wildcard is of course Mars, their are people living there, and extensive ruins and ancient cities, among the various artifacts is an ancient spaceship buried under the Martian sands, the ship is well armed and considerably larger than a ship's boat or fuel shuttle, that if gotten to work, might be used to take the labship. There's an outline for an adventure fight there, similar to a spacegoing Where Eagles Dare.
Here are the stats for the three ships
1600 Ton Lab Ship
Based on a 1600-ton hull, the Type L Lab Ship is designed for scientific research. Forty-three staterooms provide quarters for the crew of eight (pilot/Captain, three small craft pilots, navigator, 3 engineers) plus scientific and research personnel as necessary. This lab ship is not streamlined, but carries a single fuel shuttle with provisions for landing and skimming a gas giant, processing and storing 50 tons of fuel onboard for transfer to the lab ship, the fuel shuttle includes three staterooms for the crew operating the shuttle, plus an air/raft stored in a hangar in the back, there are also 2 ship’s boats (one docked to the underside of each fuel pod) with seating for 2 crew and 18 passengers each, the seats are removable so they can easily be converted to cargo haulers as the need arises. The lab ship also carries four additional air/rafts (two stored in each hangar). One hundred fifty-seven tons of space is dedicated to laboratories, with provisions for a wide variety of equipment and research; most equipment in the lab is common and easily purchased.
Laboratory Ship Tons Price (Cr.)
HULL 1600 tons Hull 8, Structure 8 160,000,000
ARMOR None
JUMP DRIVE P Jump 3 75 140,000,000
MANEUVER DRIVE X Thrust 5 43 88,000,000
POWER PLANT X 67 176,000,000
BRIDGE 40 8,000,000
COMPUTER Model 3 Rating 10 2,000,000
ELECTRONICS Advanced Sensors +1 DM 3 2,000,000
WEAPONS Two Triple turrets, total of six Pulse Lasers
FUEL 568 tons 1 Jump-3 and 2 weeks of operation 568
CARGO 120 tons 120
43 STATEROOMS 193.5 24,187,500
EXTRAS
15 Probe Drones 3 1,500,000
Laboratory Space 157.5
Luxuries 140 14,000,000
Ship's Lockers 10
2 Air/Raft Hangars 2 Air/Raft each 4 Air/raft total 25 2,400,000
1 95-ton Fuel Shuttle With 1 Air/Raft 95 35,387,500
2 Ship's Boats 2 crew + 18 seats. 60 32,000,000
SOFTWARE
Jump Control/3 300,000
Maneuver/0
Library/0
MAINTENANCE COST (MONTHLY) 57,148
LIFE SUPPORT COST (MONTHLY) 86,000
TOTAL TONNAGE AND COST 685,775,000
Shuttle
A shuttle is capable of moderate acceleration, this one can carry 50 tons of fuel from surface to ship, it also comes equipped with fuel scoops and fuel processors so it can skim the atmospheres of gas giants for fuel, it also has a hose to obtain the fuel from water. This shuttle includes three standard staterooms for the 3 crew members operating it. Since this shuttle has 2 fuel processors, it can convert 40 tons of unrefined hydrogen into fuel per day, so it takes 30 hours of skimming to fill completely the 50 ton fuel tank with refined fuel, and it takes 14.2 days to process enough fuel to completely fill the lab ship’s tanks. This shuttle may be retrofitted with weapons, but can only draw enough power to feed two lasers.
Hull 95 tons Hull 1
Structure 1
Armor None
No Jump Drive
Maneuver Drive A Thrust 3
Power Plant A
Computer Model 1 Rating 5
Electronics Standard Sensors -4 DM
Weapons Two Pulse Lasers
Fuel 50 tons Fifty weeks of operation
Cargo 3 tons
2 Crew Stations
3 Staterooms
Extras 2 Fuel Processors
1 Air/Raft
Software Maneuver/0
Library/0
Purchase Cost: Cr.35,387,500
Ship’s Boat
Using a 30-ton hull, the ship’s boat is capable of excellent acceleration and is a worthy upgrade to the more utilitarian launch. Due to its excess cargo space it is often customized as a troop transport and staging point for boarding actions. Although the ship’s boat uses a larger power plant, so much power is dedicated to the maneuver drive that it can only mount a single beam or pulse laser. All other weapons must be missile racks or sand casters. These particular Ship’s boats have 18 removable passenger seats in the cargo hold. The floor plan is also reversed from those of the standard design.
Hull 30 tons
Streamlined Hull 0
Structure 1
Armor None
No Jump Drive
Maneuver Drive A Thrust 6
Power Plant A
Computer Model 1 Rating 5
Electronics Standard Sensors -4 DM
Weapons 1 pulse laser
Fuel 1 ton One week of operation
Cargo 13 tons
2 Crew Stations
Software Maneuver/0
Library/0
Purchase Cost Cr.16,000,000
To get the deck plans, you'll have to wait for the download.
The Third Reich with its hand picked scientists led by Werner Von Braun is very carefully maintaining these ships while at the same time studying them there are also20 SS troopers on board to guard the ship, some have learned to pilot the smallcraft, they know how to operate the labship as well, and they are looking into the problem of how to repair the jump drive, as they don't really know how it works, that is going very slowly, but they are trying to get information out of that starship thief, they have learned how to operate the computer systems, Von Braun has designed his next generation of V3 and V4 missiles on those computers, some other German Scientists have borrowed that computer to design an atomic bomb, the difficulty still lies in manufacturing one. The labship doesn't have the capability to actually build an atomic bomb, there are factories in Germany, but those are getting bombed by the Allies, so progress is slow.
