Mark Lucas' Deckplans

[AlHazred]

So, Mark Lucas made a bunch of interesting deckplans that he had posted to these forums years ago. All of those threads I've tried to find were gone, unfortunately. He has his deckplans on Flickr here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lucasdigital/albums/72157614799771385/

Well, recently (I think the day before yesterday, maybe?) he started a new website with new stuff: https://www.lucas-digital.com/ I used the contact form to ask if he was going to be releasing any of his work as PDFs, as it's exactly the kind of thing I want to see more of in Mongoose's TAS site. Unfortunately, he let me know he lost a lot of the original files for those in two hard drive crashes.

In any case, I wanted to know if anyone had done up stats for any of them, or used them in interesting ways in their games? I wish I could see those old forum threads where people talked about them. I'm considering how good the Hector-class Module Transporter, Boudicca-class Frontier Trader, and De Coubertin-class Fleet Courier are for some parts of my game. And I'm absolutely going to use the Ormston-class Gas Mining Station in my game, in a variation of "Sky Rig".

 

[Dragoner]

I have used them in games (long time ago), esp Boudicca and Gas Mining station, I believe there were MgT1 stats for them.

 

[AlHazred]

I have used them in games (long time ago), esp Boudicca and Gas Mining station, I believe there were MgT1 stats for them.

I'm really curious how someone would stat up the Gas Mining Station. In the original module it was 7,000 dtons, but that was mostly gas bag. Mr. Lucas' version definitely has more interior space, and quadruple the crew.

 

[Dragoner]

The Ormstrom XM Gas Refinery does look fairly good sized, it's not stat'd out, though there is a Type S silhouette next to the elevation. Looks to be roughly 100 meters long, and 30 meters in diameter, or 5,049 dtons.

 

[AlHazred]

Does that include the 150km long umbilical pipeline?

 

[coliver988]

So, Mark Lucas made a bunch of interesting deckplans that he had posted to these forums years ago. All of those threads I've tried to find were gone, unfortunately. He has his deckplans on Flickr here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lucasdigital/albums/72157614799771385/

Well, recently (I think the day before yesterday, maybe?) he started a new website with new stuff: https://www.lucas-digital.com/ I used the contact form to ask if he was going to be releasing any of his work as PDFs, as it's exactly the kind of thing I want to see more of in Mongoose's TAS site. Unfortunately, he let me know he lost a lot of the original files for those in two hard drive crashes.

In any case, I wanted to know if anyone had done up stats for any of them, or used them in interesting ways in their games? I wish I could see those old forum threads where people talked about them. I'm considering how good the Hector-class Module Transporter, Boudicca-class Frontier Trader, and De Coubertin-class Fleet Courier are for some parts of my game. And I'm absolutely going to use the Ormston-class Gas Mining Station in my game, in a variation of "Sky Rig".

At least I finally have a name to credit for the gas mining station. Using it for a non-Traveller SF game and hated that I did not know where I got it from (like way too much of the stuff I've squirreled away as I know the web is often quite ephemeral). Thanks for the link!

 

[AlHazred]

At least I finally have a name to credit for the gas mining station. Using it for a non-Traveller SF game and hated that I did not know where I got it from (like way too much of the stuff I've squirreled away as I know the web is often quite ephemeral). Thanks for the link!

Yeah, that's how I ended up tracking it down. I loved the gas mining station, and did a Google Image Search and came to the Flickr through a link on a forum. Then, when I had a name to put to the image, I was able to find his website. Which is hilarious, because apparently I found it the first day it was live!

 

[AlHazred]

There's a few other items of interest in Mr. Lucas' Flickr feed. Looks like a lot of them were sadly unfinished:

• Kamrov K29 Fast Boat (for Traveller 2300AD): render, deckplan
• "Radio Silence"
• "Leaving the Convoy" featuring the Nebandi Ru-class 400-ton Trader
• Liparus-class 400-ton Stretched Trader: render and deckplan: 1, 2
• Hector Mk 2-class 300-ton Module Transport: renders: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and a schematic
• Rheeban Free Station: renders: 1, 2, 3
• Herald of the Marches-class Shuttle: renders: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19
• Gazelle-class Close Escort: renders: 1, 2
• The Golden Groat: renders: 1, 2, 3, 4
• 50-ton Modular Cutter: renders: 1, 2, 3, 4
• Cerberus-class 100-ton Strike Boat: renders and sketches: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Cordette-class 500-ton Escort: deckplan, teaser, render 1, render 2, website illo
• Hector-class 1800-ton Module Transport: deckplan, teaser, and renders 1, 2
• Scout uniform design: 1, 2, 3, 4
• Sketches: ISS Lewis, Erin-class Private Yacht, both, both small
• Holo-Stage Starport Bar: 1, 2, 3
• Lioncrab ambush predator: stats, detail, closeup
• Gerushiirarmu-class 4000-ton Salvage Cruiser: deckplan, deckplan final, teaser, render, small render
• Carrier - Blast from the Past

 

[AlHazred]

Continued:

• Eucles-class 100-ton Merchant Courier: deckplan
• Boudicca-class 400-ton Frontier Trader: deckplan
• Empress-class Type-MX 700-ton Express Liner: deckplans: 1 (final), 2, 3, 4; painty render
• Chrysanthemum-class 1000-ton Destroyer Escort: deckplan, renders: 1, 2
• Suleiman-class Type-S 100-ton Scout/Courier (combining Mongoose with the GDW design illustrated by Chris Purcell): deckplan; renders: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, interior
• Tambura-class Type-T7 Mercenary Assault Ship: deckplans: 1 (final), 2
• Sabre-class Type-M3 Mercenary Assault Ship: deckplans: 1, 2, render -- these are all WIP that look like this became the Tambura
• Kineshii-class Type-M5 100-ton Emergency Response Boat: deckplan, render
• Ormston-class 7000(?)-ton Gas Mining Station: elevations, deckplans: deck 1-3, deck 4-6, deck 7-12, deck 13-16, deck 17-20, all decks on one sheet; renders: 1, 2 (with callouts)
• De Coubertin-class Type-SN 200-ton Fleet Courier: deckplan
• Altair-class Light Commercial Vessel: deckplan wip
• Cold Sleep Berths
• USN Shamreyev, Courier vessel with the Ukrainian Space Navy (Traveller-adjacent, I would use it as a historical vessel): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and I believe these 'podules' go with it, though they definitely feel Traveller-adjacent: 1, 2, 3, 4
• Starport: test renders: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• Razor Starship: renders: 1, 2, 3
• Gateway Space Station: sketches: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
• Unfinished Film Project: renders: 1, 2, 3

 

[Dragoner]

Mark is on fb, he has been working on a cepheus derived game, as well as artwork.

 

[AlHazred]

Listen, I'm just happy to have a deckplan, finally, for the Chrysanthemum-class. I needed that the last time I ran the Fifth Frontier War!