Timerover51
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Back in 1999, my parents-in-law had scheduled a cruise and tour package for the Alaskan Inside Passage, followed by a tour of Alaska. My father-in-law died of cancer in December of 1998, and my mother-in-law, still wishing to take the cruise, invited my wife and two children to go. As the cabin had been paid for assuming two adults, adding the two kids was not that expensive, and totaled, if I remember correctly, under a thousand dollars. The cabin was about 10 feet by 15 feet, or 3 meters by 4.5 meters, about the size of the standard deck plan for on Traveller stateroom.
Now, consider if this trip have been planned under Traveller rules to go to an adjoining star system. First, for two adults, two separate cabins would have been required, and then for my 8-year old son, a third cabin, and for my 6-year old daughter, a fourth cabin. The cost for each child would be 10,000 credits for one High Passage, as you would not want them bumped by another passenger. It is at this point that the passenger system in Traveller breaks down.
The cost of a stateroom in ship construction is 500,000 Credits. However, staterooms should be about as standardized as standardized could be for the basic room. In Marc Miller's article in JTAS 11, The Model 317 Pressurized Shelter, the cost for an 8-person shelter, that includes an airlock, water and air recycling plant, small galley, and power plant, which is collapsible, is all of 50,000 credits. The shelter is intended to be used for up to 2 months. Now, that means that the cost of the shelter includes life support, power costs, and galley costs, for one-tenth the cost of a starship stateroom, and can handle life-support for 8 adults in a space about the size of two standard staterooms.
To Be Continued.
Now, consider if this trip have been planned under Traveller rules to go to an adjoining star system. First, for two adults, two separate cabins would have been required, and then for my 8-year old son, a third cabin, and for my 6-year old daughter, a fourth cabin. The cost for each child would be 10,000 credits for one High Passage, as you would not want them bumped by another passenger. It is at this point that the passenger system in Traveller breaks down.
The cost of a stateroom in ship construction is 500,000 Credits. However, staterooms should be about as standardized as standardized could be for the basic room. In Marc Miller's article in JTAS 11, The Model 317 Pressurized Shelter, the cost for an 8-person shelter, that includes an airlock, water and air recycling plant, small galley, and power plant, which is collapsible, is all of 50,000 credits. The shelter is intended to be used for up to 2 months. Now, that means that the cost of the shelter includes life support, power costs, and galley costs, for one-tenth the cost of a starship stateroom, and can handle life-support for 8 adults in a space about the size of two standard staterooms.
To Be Continued.