[Proto-Traveller] Starship Design

[BillDowns]

Here's a staffing document for Navy hospital ships on humanitarian missions:
Determining Hospital Ship (T-AH) Staffing http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA477534

 

[BillDowns]

Sorry - got a bad copy of the link somehow.

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA477534

 

[noahternullo]

Try building that courier on a 200 ton frame. You should be able to get everything in the 400 ton ship except the extra cargo, and it's cheaper (mongoose rules).

 

[robject]

So, back to the ship design, for a moment.

So, back to the ship design, for a moment.

Ship size is VERY straightforward...

Since drives are limited in SIZE by TL, the biggest ship buildable is also limited by what can be driven by the biggest drive.

Remember: TL 9 is drives A-D only... Which means an 800 Td limit...TL 15 is drives A-Z, and a Z drive can drive a 5000Td hull.
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Brilliant!

My variant of Small Ship Proto-Traveller replaces the drive table with formulas. Unfortunately that breaks the designs with drives W thru Z.