Ships and craft design in the pipeline.

Design pipeline

• A 7,500 dTon "Dreadnaught"


• 30 dTon Torpedo boat


• 50 dTon LAC


• 1000/2000 dTon LAC Carrier (1000 dTon core.  Carries 20 LAC)

Small Ship Traveller Universe

A Small Ship Traveller Universe -  A Bit of Handwavium to explain it.

In Mongoose Traveller, Capital ships (i.e. those over 2k dTons) are required to be in section. The largest one that can be done in just 2 sections is 7,500 dTons, which, as it happens in MTU, is the largest volume that a TL 15 anti-gravity field can support. Jump drives need A/G fields to make jump bubbles, so that also limits how big a jump capable ship can be. A/G fields affecting volumes of space, not mass, also explains why space ships are sized in dTons and the mass of the ship doesn't matter or affect how many G's acceleration it can pull. Due to the rather massive drop in both size and cost of spinal mounts, even meson guns up to Type C (the largest being D) could be mounted in a TL 15 craft.

This was first posted to the TML, but this is the "official" blog of My Traveller Universe, so I'm putting it here so it is  made official and stuff.

The Challenge Class 2k dTon Cruiser

The Challenge Class 2,000 dTon Cruiser¹

The Challenge class cruiser is designed to be "laser proof" and very hard to hurt with any thing less than 100 dTon class bay weapons.

Component	Displacement tonnage	MCr	Notes
2000 dTon Hull (Class L)	2K	220	Streamlined
Full RSTHR Hull skin	N/a	1100	Reflect (+3 Armor vs Lasers) Self Sealing Stealth(-4 DM vs sensor lock) Heat Shielding Radiation Shielding (+6 vs Rad)
12 points Crystal-iron Armor	300	120	15  Vs Lasers 18  Vs Radiation attacks
Jump Drive R	85	160	Jump 3
Jump Fuel	600	-	Jump 3
Maneuver Drive U	37	76	4 G Acceleration
Fusion Power Plant Class U	58	152	Rating 4
Power Plant Fuel	32	-
Bridge with Very Advanced sensors	45	14	-
Computer MK IV and software	-	27.3	Rating 20 Software loaded Library Maneuver/0 Jump Control/3 Evade 2 Fire Control/4 Auto Repair/2
Weapons and Screens
5 X Large Particle Bay	500	200	9D6 plus crew hit
7 x Triple Turrets	7	35	Particle Beam (3D6 damage, plus crew hit)
8 x Triple Turrets	8	24	3 x Beam Lasers 1d6 Used for point defense.
2 x Nuclear Dampers	40	60	-4d6 Damage, No crew hit from radiation attack
2 x Meson Screens	40	120	-4d6 vs Meson weapons
Crew and Misc.
17 Statesroom	76.5	10.2	Crew Commander XO Piloting Officer Navigation Officer Chief Engineer Medical Officer 3 x Engineering Crew 2 x Screen operators 20 x Gunners
	Each states room has an escape pod. All the rooms, other than the commander's are dual bunked.
Repair Drones	20	4
Full Hanger or Cargo Space	150	30	Can carry 105 dTon of craft will full access
Totals	2000 dTon	2,132.5 Mcr	This is a rather expensive ship, but over half the cost is the hull and it's skin. With just normal armor and skin the cost is 1,032.5 Mcr

¹Built with Mongoose Traveller's High Guard rules.

Real life

Real life, in the form of needing to make calls on the big white phone due to a dumb dinner idea kicked in.  Will post ship designs Sunday morning.  I hope.

LSP Far Venture class 400 dTon Trade Cruiser, armed varient.

Subsidized Merchant (Armed) modified Type R (Type RLA).

Major differences

1. 4 popup turrets


2. Jump 2


3. Removal of 7 stateroom


4. Removal of low berths.


5. Modular cargo / passenger design

Subsidized Merchant, Type RLA (‘Fat Long Trader (Armed)’)

Item	Tons	Price (Cr.)
Hull	400 tons
Streamlined
Hull 8
Structure 8
Total Hull Cost		17,600,000
Armour None
Jump Drive D (Jump 2)	25	40,000,000
Maneuvering Drive C (Thrust 1)	5	12,000,000
Power Plant D	13	32,000,000
Compact Bridge	15	2,000,000
Computer Model 1bis Rating 5 (10 for Jump)		45,000
Electronics Civilian Sensors (–2 DM)	1	50,000
Weapons Fire Control	4
Pop Up Turret 1 Triple Sandcaster	1	2,750,000
Pop Up Turret 2 Dual Sandcaster, Missile Rack	1	3,250,000
Pop Up Turret 3 Triple Pulse Lasers	1	3,500,000
Pop Up Turret 4 Triple Pulse Lasers	1	3,500,000
Fuel One Jump–2 and Two weeks of operation	88
Magazine	10 Tons of munitions, normally 180 Sandcaster barrels and 12 missiles
Cargo	191 (19 10 dTon modules)
6 Staterooms for crew. 1 single, 5 double.	24	3,000,000
Extras Fuel Scoop		–
Fuel Processor	1	50,000
Escape Pods One for every stateroom	3	650,000
Ship’s Locker		–
LSP Light Launch Mod 6502	16	4,606,000
Software Jump Control/2		200,000
Manoeuvre/0		–
Library/0		–
Fire Control/1		2,000,000
Total Tonnage and Cost	400	127,201,000cr

LSP 16 dTon Mod 6502 Light Launch

LSP Light Launch Mod 6502

The 16 dTon launch is designed to go with the "armed" version of the Far Venture class 2J merchants. It is a quite simple design, being made, mainly, to be the minimum needed to transport a 10 dTon module from a planet surface to orbit.

Part	dTons	Cost (CR)	notes
S 1.6 Hull	16	1,276,000	Streamlined 0 hull, 1 Struct pt.
sB M Drive	1	2,000,000	(3 G Thrust)
sB FP Plant	1.5	1,000,000
Fuel	0.25	0	3 Days
Cockpit	1.5	100,000	One Crewman
Computer MK I	0	30,000	Rating 5
Air Lock	1	200,000	Includes boarding tube
Cargo	10.75	0	10 dTon as module
Totals	16	4,606,000	Cheap and dirty way of getting a LSP standard 10 dTon module into space.

Vehicle design

Any new vehicles designed for this project are going to be made using the SCFI-20/T20 rules, as those are declared to be useable under the OGL. The Mongoose Traveller vehicle design rules, as of this time, are closed source and, in theory, can't be used in an OGL product. I'm not 100% sure about this, but that is the way I'm going, just to be safe.

Due to the difference in how armor is used in t20 vs Mongoose Traveller, there will be some tweaking needed, but other than that, they seem to be about the same.

This has been changed. I have Word of God that you can use the MgT design rules, you just can't publish the design rules as such

LSP Mk XXIV Life Pod

All LSP space ships are equipped with an Mk XXIV pod at a rate of 1 per cabin.

.5 dTon (6.75 M³)

Item	Meter³	Weight (Kg)	Cost (Cr)
Box Structure hull with Advanced Sealing 7.425 Meters³ available Crystaliron Armor 6 Hull 1 Structure 3	-	1,020	17,820
Grav Drive	0.3375	50	168,750
Fuel Cell TL-10 22 power units Fuel Efficient x 4	1	125	12,000
Fuel 500 liters (2000 Hours)	0.5	500	-
Compact Comprehensive Sensors	0.5	1	2000
Life support hostile environment	0.3375	135	168,750
Air flow device	0.033		675
Pilot's station	1.25	125	-
Passenger seat	1	100	-
Radio-1000 TL 7	2	15	5000
Total	6.958	2,071	374,995

Max speed in air 425 KPH
Cruising speed 319 KPH
Agility 1

Basic Load out
2 x Environmental suits
2 x Environmental masks
Vehicle Survival Kit
Fusion Stile

2nd option for the LSPS-1802

[caption id="attachment_646" align="alignleft" width="300"] Ling Standard Products Ship 1802 "Far Venture"[/caption]

I think I like this one better than the other option, not the least because I still have the "source code" for the render so I can use it in other scenes.

Possible view of the 'Far Venture' LSPS-1802

[caption id="attachment_641" align="alignleft" width="881"] LSP Trade Cruiser[/caption]I haven't decided if this is the final version of the the ship, but this is close at any rate. Central hub with fuel/engine out rider pods.

LSPS-1802 Far Venture.

Subsidized Merchant modified Type R (Type RL).

Major differences

1. 4 hardpoints


2. Jump 2


3. Removal of 7 stateroom


4. Removal of low berths.


5. Modular cargo / passenger design

Subsidized Merchant, Type RL (‘Fat Long Trader’)

Item	Tons	Price (Cr.)
Hull	400 tons
Streamlined
Hull 8
Structure 8
Total Hull Cost		17,600,000
Armour None
Jump Drive  D (Jump 2)	25	40,000,000
Manoeuvre Drive C (Thrust 1)	5	12,000,000
Power Plant D	13	32,000,000
Compact Bridge	15	2,000,000
Computer Model 1bis Rating 5 (10 for Jump)		45,000
Electronics Civilian Sensors (–2 DM)	1	50,000
Weapons	4
Hardpoint #1 Empty
Hardpoint #2 Empty
Hardpoint #3 Empty
Hardpoint #4 Empty
Fuel One Jump–2 and Two weeks of operation	88
Cargo	201 (20 10 dTon modules)
6 Staterooms for crew. 1 single, 5 double.	24	3,000,000
Extras Fuel Scoop		–
Fuel Processor	1	50,000
Escape Pods One for every stateroom	3	650,000
Ship’s Locker		–
Modular 20 dTon Launch	20	7,000,000
Software Jump Control/2		200,000
Manoeuvre/0		–
Library/0		–
Total Tonnage and Cost	400	107,595,000 cr

TL 15 Mini Surveyor aka IISS Fighter

TL 15 Mini Surveyor aka IISS Fighter
20 dTon TL 15 Hull (1 Hull, 1 Body)

Bonded Superdense Armor level 6 stealth, heat shielding, radiation shielding, self sealing.	1
TL 15 Particle Beam fixed mount	0.6
sJ M-dive (9 G)	3.75
sL power plant	3.375
Fuel (2 weeks)	2
Cockpit (2 persons)	3
States room / Lab combo	4
Survey Sensors	1.5
5 TL 15 Prob Drones	0.75

The Meriwether Lewis (Class FS-II "Far Reach" Survey Scout)

1000 dTon hull, Streamlined

Armor 6pt Bounded Superdense	50
Stealth, Heat shielding, Radiation shielding, Self sealing hull.
Holographic Compact Bridge (+1)	15
Very Advanced Survey Electronics TL15 (+2)	3
Enhanced Signal Processing TL15 (+4)	1.5
Jump Drive P TL15 (Jump 4)	67.5
Maneuver Drive P (4 G)	32.25
Fission Power Plant P TL15	64.5
Jump Fuel	400
Fuel Processor (2 days)	10
Power plant fuel	28
10 Hardpoints 3 Triple Missiles 4 Triple Beam Lasers 3 Triple Particle Beam	10
Hanger 1 IISS Surveyor [4 on board] 50 2 Mini Surveyors [2 on board each] 40 2 TL 14 G-Carriers 20 1 Survey and Exploration Vehicle [6 on ship] 15 2 TL 12 Stealth Grav Planes [4 on ship] 10 Ships Boat 20	195
Barracks and arms rooms	21
15 Statesroom Sr. Scout & XO Boatswain & Navigator 2 Engineers 2 Small Craft Engineers 2 Small Craft Engineers 2 SEV Crew 2 SEV Crew 2 SEV Crew 2 Stealth Crew 2 Stealth Crew 2 Lab Scouts 2 Lab Scouts 14. 15. Opened as Barrack space for 10 Vargr Gunners	60
Med bay	4
3 Labs	12
Library	4
200 Smart Missiles	10
100 Nuclear Missiles	5
Luxuries	7.25