[Spaceships] Spaceship designs on the forums
 

Please alert me (eg. by posting to this thread) if you post a ship design, or know of a ship design that I have overlooked. I will add it to the index in this post. If there are GURPS Spaceships ship designs elsewhere on the 'Net, I'd like to add those, too.

Threads

• Admiral Kuznetsov-class fighter-carrier, and fighters TL10^, SM+14.
  
• Alida-class economy orbital shuttle. TL9.
  
• Andromeda-class carrier. TL11^, SM+15.
  
• Arcturus-class battleship SM+10, TL10.
  
• Assorted ships from several campaigns. TL8 to TL11^.
  Includes USS Glacier Bay exploration vessel, its landers, an enigmatic TL 10^ alien vessel, Mark XXII Bolo, GunStar, assault pods, an assault pod carrier, a Bajoran light-sail vessel, Horatu-class pocket freighter, Earthforce SA-23E Aurora Starfury, Shadowbat Fighter, Red Tail, Millennium Falcon. TL11 laser fighter, TL11 laser fighter carrier, Firefly-class freighter, Rickenbacker-class Orion-drive light combatant, B'rel-class bird-of-prey, Longfellow-class heavy cruiser, Steppingstone STL colony ship, Airbus business spacecraft, CR90 Corellian Corvette, and Sextant-class scout.
  
• Battlestar Galactica Raptor, & Viper
  
• Beowulf-class free trader. TL 10^, SM+8.
  Common tramp freighter in Traveller.
  
• BBG-1P Honor-Class Pod-Layer SM+12, TL10^.
  
• CVA-1 Hope-Class Arsenal Ship SM+12, TL 10^.
  
• Danube-class runabout. TL12^, SM+6
  Light FTL gunboat with configurable load-carrying capacity, from Star Trek.
  
• Dirty Snowball class secret Asteroid base Rough Diamond TL10, SM+10 (standard space opera pirate base).
  Darkway-class Jump Gate TL10^, SM+9
  Wagner-class rotating space station TL10, SM+10
  Emmett-class Space Construction Vehicle Sky Weaver TL10, SM+5
  
• Dragon-class system defence boat. TL 10^, SM+9.
  Common non-interstellar combat vessel from Traveller.
  
• Enterprise NX-01. SM+12, TL not listed.
  From the Star Trek spin-off.
  
• Firefly-class light freighter. TL not listed, SM+8.
  From the TV series Firefly.
  
• Gatekeeper-class STL ramrobot Edge of Reason. TL11, SM+6.
  STL ram-scoop powered pioneering robot delivers a robot factory that constructs a stargate.
  And Steppingstone-class STL ramrobot (TL11^ SM+9) upgrade which carries a complete stargate.
  
• Gem Class Casino Liner. SM+11, TL 10^
  
• J-3 warship and J-6 courier
  For Traveller.
  
• JP Holland Interdiction Vessel. SM+7, TL9.
  Stealth combat spacecraft.
  
• Lockheed Phoenix-class rocket transport TL7, SM+7.
  Sub-orbital passenger rocket.
  
• Long-range freighter and pirate conversion TL11^, SM+9.
  
• Necho-class exploration frigate. TL10^, SM+9.
  
• Novobisirsk-class patrol boat TL9, SM+7.
  
• Orbital Giga-Lifter. TL9, SM+15.
  Two-stage ferry to lift SM +14 spaceship to low orbit.
  
• Orbital lifter. TL8, SM+9/+12/+15.
  Two-stage surface-to-orbit ferries at three different sizes.
  
• Orion SOMP. TL9, SM+7.
  Heavy interceptor/weapons platform, to serve the same role as a naval strike aircraft.
  Akron-class carrier TL9, SM+10.
  Macon-class carrier TL9, SM+10.
  Vakhmistrov parasite transporter TL9, SM+9.
  [i]Sirius[i] LSOMP TL9, SM+5 (lighter successor to the Orion)
  
• Pathfinder-class exploration frigate TL10^, SM+9.
  Interstellar naval vessel: carries a small survey team on deep scouting missions.
  
• Pilgrim observer TL7/8, SM+8
  Primitive space-exploration vehicle.
  
• Ships of the Lorasian Navy TL10^, restricted superscience.
  
• Small craft TL 11^, SM+5, +6
  Superscience fighter, heavy fighter, fast recovery craft.
  
• Space fleet. TL11^.
  Battleship, battlecruiser, cruisers, carrier, fighters, tanker, fleet tenders, etc. with consistent tech assumptions.
  
• Star Wars KOTOR craft. TL11^, SM assorted.
  Assorted vessels from Knights of the Old Republic.
  
• Tales of the Solar Patrol, Ships converted from TL6+3^, SM varied.
  
• Thermopylae-class BIFV carrier Late TL8+TL11^, SM+10
  Mecha-carrier.
  
• TL9 non-superscience military space vehicles
  
• TL9 SM+15 space habitat
  
• Type 64 exploration shuttle. TL10^ (limited superscience), SM+5
  Designed for landing and recovery of exploration parties on undeveloped planets.
  
• TL10^ limited-superscience light frigate and corvette
  
• TL11^ scout corvette TL11^ (limited superscience), SM+8
  Built with variant rules.
  
• TL 11^ small craft. A planetary transport, and yachts; courier ships, in two sizes; two military cargo shuttles; an assault shuttle; a civilian cargo shuttle, and armed upgrade; and a minishuttle, and a fuel carrier.
• Traveller ships Various sizes, idiosyncratic tech.
  With economics (operational costs).
  
• Unnamed TL 10^. SM+9.
  Interstellar frigate having unexplained connection to Cowboy Bepop.
  
• Viper Mk II & Mk VII, and Raptor fighters, and Battlestar Galactica.
  From Battlestar Galactica[/url].
  
• Yoyo/Albatross 2-stage exploration vehicle TL11, SM+10/+9.
  Atmospheric shuttle as upper stage of a fusion/magsail booster, designed to be dropped by a relativistic interstellar mothership, survey a planet/system, and rejoin the mother ship: without superscience.

External sites

• Stone's Throw Shipyards TL9
  Ships for Transhuman Space, including the Branson conventional spaceplane, the Alida economy orbital shuttle, the Islandia Express express passenger shuttle, the Norn interplanetary spin liner, then Hermes Mars orbital rocket (TAV), and the Osiris space dominance vehicle.

Utilities

• Spaceship cost calculator

Re: [Spaceships] Spaceship designs on the forums
 

Only the third ship has a link that takes you to that ship. I assume you meant to do this for the first two as well?

Re: [Spaceships] Spaceship designs on the forums
 

All in good time.

Re: [Spaceships] Spaceship designs on the forums
 

Personally, I think it would be great if we could get a separate forum just for the G:Spaceship line. That would make searching waaaaaay easier. But I haven't a clue who to pester to make that happen.

Re: [Spaceships] Spaceship designs on the forums
 

I'd prefer a Space + Spaceships + Ultra-Tech + Bio-Tech + GURPS Traveller + Transhuman Space GURPS Science Fiction forum. Alongside a corresponding Fantasy + Dungeon Fantasy + Magic + Thaumatology + Banestorm &c GURPS Fantasy forum.

But either way, it isn't going to happen. Kromm is the guy who has to do the work of monitoring the forums for 4e rules questions, and he wants to be able to do all his work in one forum. The powers that be have spoken. No more split-off GURPS forums.

Re: [Spaceships] Spaceship designs on the forums
 

Foo. If only there were a Usenet-style interface, I might actually spend more time reading the forums. Present spate of participation not included, since it happens to fall into a boring spell at work; when it's over, I'll stop reading.

Webforum software is one of those things that went through a renaissance in the first Dot-Com boom, and those morons who wrote it all declared, "Hey, look! I invented the wheel! Isn't is awesome! My wheel is made of stone, has an axle made of a tree branch, and is lubricated with spit! It is the epitome of wheel building." without having considered that Usenet has been around for 20 years and manages to be like carbon-fibre wheel rims with tubeless kevlar-reinforced vulcanized rubber tires and lubricated with molybdenum sulfide paste.

Re: [Spaceships] Spaceship designs on the forums
 

I suggest that you bring this up in the Feedback and Help forum, where it might be on topic. It is off topic for this thread and forum, besides which there is absolutely no point in arguing with me.

Re: [Spaceships] Spaceship designs on the forums
 

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=39155 <-- so far, just the Runabout. I know someone else did the TOS/TAS Enterprise at one point in a related thread.

Re: [Spaceships] Spaceship designs on the forums
 

Both of those are two-stage designs. The first description does not make this clear, and the second implies that the design has more than two stages. Please look into updating those descriptions at some point.

You might also want to include the suggestion that the TL8 design is potentially underpowered (at 8.61 mps), and that it is meant to lift an upper stage 3 size classes smaller (i.e. SM+5 for an SM+8 system).

Re: [Spaceships] Spaceship designs on the forums
 

Yes, I dislike WWW-based discussion fora intensely. NNTP is infinitely better; faster, more elegant, and a lot easier to keep track of everything.