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.

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.

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

Mongoose Traveller, a slow read over

I'm going to start a "slow read" review of the Mongoose Traveller (MGT) line of books. The MGT line starts with the Traveller Core Rulebook and goes on for 40 plus books.  I'm going to be reviewing, or what ever it is I'm doing the "Books", "Supplements", "Compendiums" rule book series and the Third Imperium series of back ground books. I'm going to be (re)reading and reviewing them by their Mongoose series number.