Ship Chart
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Easterner9504
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Ship?
What is the Norris ship type?
What is the Norris ship type?
the TL-12 400T Dragon Class System Defense Boat.
I'm surprises their is the 400T SA Freerunner class but no Type-T Patrol Cruiser or either of the Close Escort ships.
Andrew,
Another superb piece of art, thank you so much for that!
I just love size comparison charts like this and for more than the usual reasons.
Take a look at this. It's the Hayden Sphere in the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. During one of the TML Real Space get-togethers, we visited the planetarium and enjoyed a private tour thanks to Rob Davenport. After goggling at the Sphere, we calculated it's volume with the help of Jeff Zeitlin's then rare PDA/cell phone.
It turns out that the Sphere is just about the same size as a Broadsword-class mercenary cruiser minus the four landing legs.
So, look at Andrew's wonderful poster and then look at a picture of the Hayden Sphere. You then should be able to "grok" the "real" sizes of the other starships Andrew depicted.
Regards,
Bill
Another superb piece of art, thank you so much for that!
I just love size comparison charts like this and for more than the usual reasons.
Take a look at this. It's the Hayden Sphere in the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. During one of the TML Real Space get-togethers, we visited the planetarium and enjoyed a private tour thanks to Rob Davenport. After goggling at the Sphere, we calculated it's volume with the help of Jeff Zeitlin's then rare PDA/cell phone.
It turns out that the Sphere is just about the same size as a Broadsword-class mercenary cruiser minus the four landing legs.
So, look at Andrew's wonderful poster and then look at a picture of the Hayden Sphere. You then should be able to "grok" the "real" sizes of the other starships Andrew depicted.
Regards,
Bill
Awesome renderings but that Scout/Courier looks awful big compared to the Beowulf and Marava. Same with the X-boat compared to the tender.
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Andrew Boulton
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The Hull Configuration of the Type S demands a longer Keel to allow for the Hull to contain the Volume than would a blunter wedge like you see with the Type A.
I second the "awesome renderings" but share the surprise at some of the apparent sizes. The subsidized liner looks bigger than the X-boat Tender. The launch on the lab ship looks nearly as large as the 200 ton Traders.
Andrew Boulton
The Adminator
Again, it's down to the shapes (eg the Lab's 40dt boat is a 6m diameter cylinder, whereas the Marava is 18m wide).
Supplement Four
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Andrew, is that a 200 ton or a 400 ton Far Trader?
I ask because of it's comparison to the Free Trader.
It's a damn fine looking comparison chart, but it doesn't look like the ships are drawn to scale.
For example, the 100 ton scout seems to be as big a the 200 ton Free Trader.
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spinwardpirate
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It's stuff like this that makes me want to play Traveller.
Bravo!
And thanks for sharing!!!
Bravo!
And thanks for sharing!!!
A wedge with the same length width and height as a box is 1/2 the volume, so what is drawn is about right for what you would see from the side.
Tekrat04
SOC-11
Actualy it 1/6 the volume of the box.
Andrew Boulton
The Adminator
I *hope* they're correct! (Actually, the Lab is a tiny bit over, and the Broadsword is well over, but AFAIK the rest are okay).
Look at this pic:
The first column shows the side of three objects, each 3m x 1m. They're the same, right?
Now look at them from the top:
a cuboid, 3m x 1m x 2m, volume 6m3
a cylinder, 3m x 1m, volume 2.36m3
a prism, 3m x 1m x 2m, volume 3m3
The third column shows how long they'd have to be to have the same volume.
The ship in the upper right is the 800t Exploratory Trader, also known as "Flat Trader" or "Spice Trader". There are, I believe, CT, MT, and T5 stats available for it.
