Freight Tractor Vessel?

[AlHazred]

I have an odd request. Does anyone know if there's a deckplan for the Freight Tractor Vessel available online? I love the ship, but my PCs have some changes to make to theirs, and it would be really helpful if I didn't have to reinvent the wheel, as it were.

Personally, I love the deckplans from the IISS Ship Files book -- they have a great organic feel to them, like they were really worked on over time and what you see is merely the current snapshot.

 

[Maladominus]

Tractor beams as in Star Trekky tractor-repulsor technology? I'm curious what Tech Level that would be available at in the Imperium..... I'm guessing it's not at around TL 9 or 10 (when early anti-grav technology is commercially available).

 

[aramis]

Repulsors are in HG... ISTR TL 14. Tractors are TL15 or 16, but are not given tables, since they have no direct combat role under HG. (They get a throwaway mention, IIRC)

Checking MT, 100Td Repulsor bays are TL10. 50Td are TL14.
100Td Tractors are TL16, 50Td are TL20.

Tractors have 10KTf per factor; maneuver reduction (agility loss) is Tf/Tmt
(Tf Tons of force, Tmt Tons mass of target) (MT RM 95).

I put Repulsors in my games at 1KTf per factor... but only directly away.

 

[Maladominus]

I always wanted my Azhanti High Lightnings doing the Gorn Anchor....



Edit: Oops. My bad. No one gets this.

 

[Sturn]

Tractor beams as in Star Trekky tractor-repulsor technology?

I took the "Freight Tractor Vessel" as meaning a space version of a farming "tractor" not a "tractor" beam. But I've never heard of such ship. A space tractor/barge of some sorts that pulls containers through space? I think I would call that a Space Train or Space Barge though.

Now I'm curious as of what the heck he is actually talking about.

 

[far-trader]

Yeah, I figured it was a tractor/trailer idea too. Just not sure which one rvolz is wondering about. Do you have some info on it rvolz? What version of Traveller, or if published in what book?

The one that leaps to mind is from Supplement 9, the Jump Ship with the big net to haul stuff.

 

[Andrew Boulton]

It's a 300dt ship that carries a sealed, 300dt cargo pod slung underneath. It's from the IISS Ship Files book.

 

[far-trader]

Oh yeah, rvolz did mention the IISS Ship Files. Forgot that

 

[Qstor2]

Tugs? There's a T20 tug in Stellar Reaches and some in GT. Not sure about MT or CT.

Mike

 

[aramis]

I always wanted my Azhanti High Lightnings doing the Gorn Anchor....



Edit: Oops. My bad. No one gets this.

I get it. They need a tech uprate to do it...

 

[AlHazred]

Yes, sorry for not being clear. The Freight Tractor Vessel is a 300 dton starship, Jump-3, 2-G empty (Jump-2, 1-G with a module) which can carry an underslung 300 dton cargo pod. It's one of Albie Fiore's designs, which means the deckplans have a similar feel to the Adventure 4 Leviathan, albeit much smaller.

Looking over the design, it looks very organic, like a tractor-trailer grown to starship size. Nicely, it has an electronics shop, machine shop, and hydroponics room, despite it being for a crew of up to 10.

Judging by the responses, I'm going to guess no one's done anything similar. I guess it's time to reinstall CC3 Pro and get cracking with the ship designs. I'll have to start with someone else's design -- don't want to start from scratch as far as iris valve symbols, hatch symbols, etc.

 

[far-trader]

Actually I do know a few designs like that, though not with those exact numbers. Some have been posted here (and elsewhere) over the years but if you've already got a good plan to start from that's probably the way to go.

 

[Schlock]

I always wanted my Azhanti High Lightnings doing the Gorn Anchor....



Edit: Oops. My bad. No one gets this.

Somehow I don't think you can use Plasma Torpedo's in Traveller...