CT Only: Looks Traveller

[Supplement Four]

I found this ship on the net, drawn by Peter Elson, I think: https://i.pinimg.com/564x/1c/1c/95/1c1c951159f987d8525ab0369d63c612.jpg

It looks extremely "Traveller", but I don't think that was the artist's original intent.

 

[pendragonman]

I found this ship on the net, drawn by Peter Elson, I think: https://i.pinimg.com/564x/1c/1c/95/1c1c951159f987d8525ab0369d63c612.jpg

It looks extremely "Traveller", but I don't think that was the artist's original intent.

Kinda of reminds me of the Aurora from TNE

 

[epicenter00]

The front section looks traveller. Like a scout ship or a free trader.

The middle and rear sections don't look traveller at all. Traveller ships are all very simple and easy to draw and lack much in the way of surface detail on the outside. That ship has far too much interesting stuff on the outside after for the fore section to be a dull traveller ship.

 

[Ex_Pendable]

It's from the 1983 pb cover of James Blish's Welcome to Mars. It is a Peter Elson ship, found it in his gallery here - http://www.peterelson.co.uk/gallery/image.php?cat=11&id=262

To me, it looks like a cross between 2001, A Space Odyssey's Discovery One and the PAM AM Shuttle with the Space 1999's Eagle Transporter and the Battlestar Galactica ship.

 

[aramis]

I found this ship on the net, drawn by Peter Elson, I think: https://i.pinimg.com/564x/1c/1c/95/1c1c951159f987d8525ab0369d63c612.jpg

It looks extremely "Traveller", but I don't think that was the artist's original intent.

Makes me think "Judges Guild"... That looks like their Patrol cutter.

It's from the 1983 pb cover of James Blish's Welcome to Mars. It is a Peter Elson ship, found it in his gallery here - http://www.peterelson.co.uk/gallery/image.php?cat=11&id=262

To me, it looks like a cross between 2001, A Space Odyssey's Discovery One and the PAM AM Shuttle with the Space 1999's Eagle Transporter and the Battlestar Galactica ship.

Most of the Judges Guild ship plans use that design ethic. The Bill Kieth Yacht also uses a similar design ethic. It's not actually alien to Traveller.

 

[robject]

Yah, those struts look Space: 1999ish.

 

[Ulsyus]

It does look like it'd be TL9 or similar, certainly not a high-tech vessel.

 

[Supplement Four]

Should we speculate on its function?

It looks modular to me. The streamlined control bridge can be separated from the rest of the body. Those bulges seen below the ship are fuel tanks.

I think that dish is part of this ship's primary function. Maybe it's a listening vessel. Maybe those fuel bladders, of which I can see three on the starboard side, are used for micro-jumps within the system.

Maybe it's used to detect piracy?

Or, maybe the world in this system is balkanized, and this is a vessel that spies on the other countries, especially their bases within the solar system?

From the windows, I'd speculate that it's not a big vessel. 100 tons or less. Heck, it might not even have a J-Drive and designed for intersystem use only.

 

[pendragonman]

The modularity is why I thought of the Aurora from TNE.

 

[Condottiere]

Maybe a tad Expansey?

The mid section could be used to attach various cargo modules, or even fuel ones.

 

[Timerover51]

My reaction is why streamline the front of the vessel when you have all of that clutter in the back.

 

[mike wightman]

The ship is modular hence the rear framework, and the front end can detach as an interface vessel.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

The ship looks more Brian Johnson to me, which means British '70s style sci-fi.

 

[Supplement Four]

My reaction is why streamline the front of the vessel when you have all of that clutter in the back.

If the ship is modular, the unstreamlined center section can be changed with a streamlined section, much like a Module Cutter can change sections.

As a matter of fact, maybe the ship is a Module Cutter made by a different company (thus the slightly different design). I'm sure not all Module Cutters are exactly the same.

 

[Ex_Pendable]

Long-duration System Survey vessel, pre-jump. Sections were constructed on the surface then shipped up individually for final orbital assembly.

Three primary sections - Command/Lander module, Utility module, and Main Drive module.

Command/lander is an SSTO and is the primary crew module.

Utility Module houses the ship's main service systems, primary power generator, the AE-35 Long Range Communications Relay Unit, and external pod docking rails. It also houses the Equipment Payload Rack Expansion bay and external airlocks.

Main Drive houses the primary maneuver drives for the ship.

 

[infojunky]

I have a hard time with what "looks" Traveller.

In that I look at Space:1999 and that era of NASA drawings and I think Traveller.

Even more so I see tailsitters and think Traveller, but have a harder time with belly landers that look a lot like blimps and the like.

 

[Sir Brad]

looks like the designer had a bunch of working sections with comparable tech, to come under budget and allow their political masters to do a bit of pork barreling just picked the sub assemblies they needed and went from their.

Bridge section from the Boeing Colorado plant, modular mid frame from Texas Heavy Engineering, Drives from JPL Manufacturing California.

 

[atpollard]

I thought it looked a bit like a Space 1999 Eagle without the landing pods at the four corners. The 'orbital' version of the Eagle.

 

[Blue Ghost]

I found this ship on the net, drawn by Peter Elson, I think: https://i.pinimg.com/564x/1c/1c/95/1c1c951159f987d8525ab0369d63c612.jpg

It looks extremely "Traveller", but I don't think that was the artist's original intent.

It's also featured in the Stewart Cowley series of coffee table scifi books. You might note its villainous similarity to the Beowulf.