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I'm going to say "me too" and ask if there are any plans for deckplans.

So, are any plans for deckplans in your plans?

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Are you looking for specific plans or just generic sf?

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In an ideal world, I'd like things like those provided by Skeleton Key or Future Armada but with hexes instead of squares but I'd take pretty much anything with hexes.

There is a guy over on the Star Hero boards who has put together some deck plans for Traveller using hexes that are really nice....hope it's okay to mention them here :) Be nice to get some generic ones though!

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Re: Future Armada, I'll drop Ryan an email to ask how hard it would be to include hexes.

I should have thought of that myself - I love the Jo Lynne.

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Hexs are nice, but they tend to limit the modularity of a design, if you are creating mix and match peices, I have been pondering stagered squares as of late as a copromise between the two systems.

But to be quite honest I have a clear vinal mat so either squares or plain work just as well for me.

My current issue is the lack of station/starport plans. I have started on the details but not the floor plans. The current plan is for several campaign specific dockside businesses I have yet to figure out how they will fit together.

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Generic sci-fi but Traveller can be hijacked just fine.

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I was wondering if the Hull Size tables on page 9 can be extended downward in the same way as upward.

SM........Loaded Mass.....Length..........dST/HP...Hnd/SR
SM+2.......1 ton.........5 yards (15ft).......7........+1/3
SM+3.......3 tons........7 yards (21ft).....10........+1/3
SM+4......10 tons......10 yards (30ft).....15..........0/4

This way, smaller spacecrafts become possible. I wanted to build a TIE/ln (which is 6.3 meters long or 20 foot 8) and a 30 tons SM+5 hull size seemed way to large.

A smaller categorization in massed would be preferable to distinguish small (dis)advantages between several types of fighters.

Any hints on how fighters are designed in the forthcoming Staship series?

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The TiE fighter is mostly a ball, so 30 tons is probably not to bad. Just assume it's fuel system is very dense: remember for spherical things, the actual dimensions can be half or so. At present, fighters are mostly planned to be built in the 30 ton and 100 ton range, but it may be possible to cover smaller SMs.

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In GURPS T:IW the hulls are all spherical, I assumed that the hull table in Spaceships were also spherical.

In the examples the Starflower is a 1,000 tons ship, is 75 yards long and has SM+8. If they would take the hull which was most ideal for their length of thip they should have chosen a 3,000 tons hull.

This makes me believe again that the hulls given in the Hull Size Table are spheres although the text says it represents a typical unstreamlined cylindrical spacecraft.

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According to http://starwarsgalaxies.station.sony...ource=features the TIE Interceptor is 50 tons. And the Imperial Guard TIE Interceptor is 80 tons.