Recent content by Sageryne

The Lafayettes' mission, long border patrols, is dull and boring. As a result, they struggle to get enough crew members. This could make them vulnerable to a determined counter-boarding...

Another view of the ship

Hi all, I have been working with mapper Robert Pearce of Yet Another Traveller Blog and artist Ian Stead on another project. This is a 1500-dTon, Jump-3, Manoeuvre-4 patrol frigate. It is designed for dealing with pirates and smugglers rather than fleet actions. There are two versions of the...

Then, you trade cost for time. You may have to wait for a month or two for that ship going to the planet J-1 away. However, if you are patient (or not rich), then you can travel direct. To continue with my age of sail analogy: If you live in the Shetland Islands and you want to go to the...

Point-to-point flights have become all the rage with modern airlines, but before that, it was hub-and-spoke. I think that you would have feeder lines, likely no more than one or two jump-2 from a local hub, from there, you move on to a bigger sub-sector hub (likely one or two per sub-sector)...

Hi all, Robert Pierce over at Yet Another Traveller Blog created an amazing set of "geomorphs" that you can combine to create new deck plans. He was kind enough to take people's ideas and post them on his website. The newest deck plan I designed is now available on his website, the TL-15...

With almost all of the ships I design, I assume that the manoeuvre drive and the jump drive won't be both drawing power at once (assuming that power to the manoeuvre drives is cut one second before the jump drives are engaged). I don't believe there is a requirement to power both concurrently...

Based on this quote: It would appear that power plants produce Energy Points/Round. High efficiency batteries store EP-rounds of power. So: If your power plant produces 100 EP per round. And, your battery has a capacity to store 2000 EP-rounds of power It will take the power plant 20 rounds...

I am fine with being able to dump power quickly, that is not my concern. The issue is how much can the battery store, i.e. what quantity of power can be stored. If Traveller measures Energy Point/second, then how many seconds worth of EP can the battery store? It is fine if it can discharge it...

I agree. Power plants should be rated in something like megawatts per hour. Batteries should be in megawatt-hours. So, the power plant would produce 100 MW/hr, it could charge a 2000 MW-hr battery in 20 hours. The battery could then power something that requires 2000 MW for one hour or...

Yes, you are correct. The figure was 120 on the design sheet, but it didn't get transferred correctly to the PDF. If I have time, I will correct it later today.

Hi Tytalan, The Zuerrdhaz Fast Trader is TL12. I should have made that more explicit. The minimum TL is dictated by the TL12 fusion reactor and the 6G manoeuvre drive. - Kerry

Hi all, Robert Pierce over at Yet Another Traveller Blog created an amazing set of "geomorphs" that you can combine to create new deck plans. He was kind enough to take people's ideas and post them on his website. The fourth of several deck plans that I created is now available on his website...

Hi all, Over the last couple of months, I have been working with Robert Pierce from Yet Another Traveller Blog developing a series of Traveller starships. Today I am posting another of my designs. This one is a Vargr ship, officially it is a 'fast transport,' but all the customs agents know it...

You are saying a gunner can only do one thing every six minutes... I guess they have time to get up, go get a coffee, use the toilet, between each time they tap their finger on a screen. What if you use a virtual gunner? Would it be your position that a computer could only issue one command...