 October 3, 2014 - 2:44pm | The Name that Ship thread has produced 2 magazine articles with one in the works. I'd like to see a 4th make it into the submission cue which will mean a year's worth of content from this series. So what do we think about Trans Travel? A young mega corp with 60-70% of the Frotnier's carrying trade. How did they get so big so fast? Could they have done it by building ships like the Gullwind? or perhaps ships like the large and small freighters included in KHs? My inclination is that it was with the large and small freighters in KHs- a basic simple pattern that could be churned out fast like cookie cutter houses. Or do you think it could have been something else? Also TT would need Q ship or a Q cargo pod which turns any freighter into a nasty surprise for the ill intentioned. I think they would have experimented with an actual Q ship design but settled on the Q cargo pod. In part this would be because if they did churned out the large and small freighters from KHs then the presence of the Q pod gives pirates pause if they recognize the TT ship- "There is 4 of them in convoy and the chances of one having a Q-pod are high perhaps we'll let these ones pass and look for prey with less potential for mayhem." Need to stat out the Large and small freighters anyway- I did not see stats in the WoWL modules after several scans of it. Hull sizes? I think the HS for these freighters should be less if not carrying pods but by adding a bunch of pods you bump the HS and HP Not HS determines the DCR but adding cargo pods should not increase DCR, IMO. They're obviously ion powered craft so ADF 1 and MR1 How many cargo pods each could these ships carry?  Pictured above is a 3/4 stern view of the tanker done by Jay Thurman on Deviant Art. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 October 13, 2014 - 10:32am | http://www.starfrontiers.us/node/8380 |
April 6, 2015 - 4:22pm | Note to self: dust off this thread for a write up and submission to the zine I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 April 7, 2015 - 3:50pm | Or ships like this one maybe? Randy :) |
April 11, 2015 - 2:45am | Or ships like this one maybe? Randy :) I like this model. The cargo tug strikes me as a system ship though.As a system ship it would work having horizontal decks as suggested by the windows. Also the 4 ball like structures suggest fuel tanks to me. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
