[Spaceships] Spaceship designs on the forums

[Ulzgoroth]

I floated the JP Holland, a stealth commerce raider, recently.

Also, the TL11 Small Craft you've got linked are definitely TL11^, given their reactionless drives.

[hackbarth]

I made the Enterprise NX-01

[thtraveller]

I have posted the following Traveller ships:

1000 ton (200 DT) Jump 1 Near Trader (Beowulf)
1000 ton (200 DT) Jump 2 Far Trader (Marava)
1000 ton (200 DT) Jump 3 Long Trader
300 ton (100 DT) Jump 2 Scout/Courier (Sulieman)
300 ton (100 DT) Jump 6 Express Boat
300 ton (100 DT) Interplanetary Shuttle
10,000 ton (2000 DT) Jump 4 Passenger Long Liner
10,000 ton (2000 DT) Jump 2 Freight Liner
300 ton (100 DT) Jump 4 Executive Yacht "Movable Feast"

In this thread http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread.php?t=44437

[Diomedes]

The complete list of ships in the thread I posted, and their links:

• Bravura class battleship. (100kt)
• Carlsson class battlecruiser. (30kt)
• Lion class cruiser. (10kt)
• Ardash class cruiser. (10kt)
• Atlas class carrier/cruiser. (10kt)
• ZX-1 and ZX-2 fighters. (30t)
• Carthage class tanker/coller and tenders. (100kt)
• Tizona class frigate. (3kt)
• Oberon class frigate. (3kt)
• Gaston class frigate. (3kt)
• Calliope class destroyer-frigate. (3kt)
• Palladium class destroyer. (1kt)
• Terrier class corvette. (1kt)
• Type 41 gunship. (300t)
• Yeoman class patrol ship. (300t)
• Veracruz class assault ship. (3000t)

Tomorrow I'll put up the civilian ships.

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And here they are:

• J-10 & J-25 bulk freighters. (10kt, 100kt)
• Orleans class colony ship, and landing ships. (300kt)
• MX-15 tramp freighter. (3kt)
• R-8 armed merchantman. (1kt)
• Caprice (pirate ship). (3kt)

[Peter Knutsen]

Originally Posted by Agemegos

[*]Orbital Giga-Lifter. TL9, SM +15.
Surface-to-orbit booster to lift SM +14 spaceship to low orbit.
[*]Orbital lifter. TL 8, SM +9 / +12 / +15.
Multi-stage surface-to-orbit booster.

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).

[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by Peter Knutsen

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.

Absolutely not!

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).

I wrestled, but decided in the end to refrain from commentary on the designs. I think some of them are dubious, and some people think that mine are dubious. Best not to set myself up as an arbiter. Especially as it would lead to this thread getting flooded with argument. Though of course I am happy to comment on others' designs in their own threads.

[Peter Knutsen]

Originally Posted by Agemegos

Absolutely not!


I wrestled, but decided in the end to refrain from commentary on the designs. I think some of them are dubious, and some people think that mine are dubious. Best not to set myself up as an arbiter. Especially as it would lead to this thread getting flooded with argument. Though of course I am happy to comment on others' designs in their own threads.

Depending on how detailed you want the descriptions to be, you could also mention that both my designs are crewed orbital lifters meant to be re-used (again and again and again, with potentailly relatively little prep time), rather than un-manned "booster stages".

[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by Peter Knutsen

Depending on how detailed you want the descriptions to be, you could also mention that both my designs are crewed orbital lifters meant to be re-used (again and again and again, with potentailly relatively little prep time), rather than un-manned "booster stages".

I have tried to get at the idea succinctly by reclassifying them as 'ferries' rather than 'boosters'. Is that satisfactory?

[Peter Knutsen]

Originally Posted by Agemegos

I have tried to get at the idea succinctly by reclassifying them as 'ferries' rather than 'boosters'. Is that satisfactory?

I think that might work.

[thtraveller]

There are other versions of the BSG ships (including Raptor and Viper), Enterprise NX01, TS Steptoe, Traveller Scouts, traders, Tigress, etc on this forum. Also some grav vehicles using scaled down spaceships. Search for "[Spaceships]" and "Gurps Spaceships in use" amongst others.

I have some of the designs suitable for TS on my site at http://www.transhuman.talktalk.net/t....html#4Escraft. I believe these craft are also on the forums, somewhere...