Golden Age Starships 5: Cutters and Shuttles now available

[far-trader]

Excellant...

 

[Scarecrow]

I've been thinking some more about this and looking at the Traveller vehicles illustrations (LBB 3 p20), The ATV Wheeled is a lot longer than the ATV tracked. It's possible, I think to fit both into a 30 ton pod, but it would need to be a length that prohibits two decks of height. This makes it awkward then for a 2-deck passenger pod.
I think a design capable of transporting variable sized pods is required.
So, a streamlined design that has variable sized pods.... hmmmmm.....

Crow

 

[Scarecrow]

Actually no, they'll work. putting aside the fact that both tracked and wheeled variants are supposed to be 10dTons and assuming (somewhat hopefully) that the drawings in the LBB are meant to be to scale, the ATVW works out at 11.8m long. Assuming it's only about 4.5m wide like it's tracked counterpart, it'll fit into a 30 ton pod that is two decks high - barely - that leaves a sliver of just under 14cm around the vehicle.
Reckon I'll work with that and keep the pods a uniform standard. It makes more sense from a logistics point of view.

Crow

 

[hurrahbro]

Originally posted by Ron Vutpakdi:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Tekrat04:
If it's outside of the cylinder how is it suppose to fit into the docking ring like thoes found on a Broad Sword class merc cruiser?

Naturally, the docking ring is a slightly different shape.

I'm sorry that you dislike my interpretation of the cutter deckplans. I suggest that you avoid GAS-7 LSP Modular Ship when it comes out as it is a 300 ton modular ship that carries 6 cutter modules and has deckplans for 8 new modules.

Ron </font>[/QUOTE]That is giving me some ideas, possibly a Scout Courier/Fast Courier style ship in the 150-200 DT range with space to plug in a cutter module for quick mission spec configuration.

I honestly don't know why I didn't think of this before.

Hmm, those 30 ton modules could be used for base building as well.

 

[vutpakdi]

Originally posted by Jon-Paul:
That is giving me some ideas, possibly a Scout Courier/Fast Courier style ship in the 150-200 DT range with space to plug in a cutter module for quick mission spec configuration.

I honestly don't know why I didn't think of this before.

Hmm, those 30 ton modules could be used for base building as well.

That's the idea behind the 300 ton modular ship. The original concept was to have a 200 ton ship, a 400 ton ship, and a 2000 ton ship, but we settled on a 300 ton ship as being the most versatile.

With 6 modules, an exploration Scout version might include a SensCommCon module (Computer-6, Sensor 6, Comm-6), a mobile field lab, 2 utility (quarters, turrets, cargo or air-raft space) modules, a fuel module, and a vehicle module. For longer ranged missions (2xJ-2), a configuration might be 3 fuel modules, 2 utility modules, and a SensCommCon module. And so on.

Yep, small temporary bases could be created with modules as well.

Ron

 

[Scarecrow]

I've been working on a fairly hard-sci-fi modular cutter for a few weeks. Kind of a cross between an Osprey, the Dropship from ALIENS and the Albatross from the new Captain Scarlett (actually more of the latter than anything else) with shades of Masamune Shirow (naturally). However, whilst trawling through CG Talk yesterday I came across THIS

Man! I gotta do something with that. It's fab!

Crow

 

[ElHombre]

that looks like something from wayne barlow's book, 'expedition'.