TL questions

[The Hinterworlds Rambler]

Shouldn't retrofitting an old ship be easier or cheaper?

I play a Hiver Tech Officer in a TNE game, and we were "given" an old Aslan Scout to use for our ship. Our ref was cool enough to let me make some Control System Bypass Adapter machines, that adapted the aslan controls to a more human standard.

What about guidlines for recycling starship components, especially interior features?

 

[robject]

Retrofitting an old ship could be problematic, to say the least. New parts would have to be built according to the old form factor and interfaces; the older the ship is, the less likely it is that modern components will play nice.

Some construction is one-shot, as well. Bulkheads are strategically placed in order to form-fit the drive components exactly. Odd angles and corners can drive an engineer nuts if cost and space savings are important to the original specs.

For that matter, older equipment might make different assumptions about power, connectors, junctions, cycling, logic, switching times, protocols, voltages, current, phase, setpoints, coolants, what-have-you. Subsystems could be built up which are completely worthless to new components.

In short, backwards compatability could be universal or extremely limited, and there's no guarantee it will ever be smooth.

 

[Andrew Boulton]

I'm sure I read somewhere that the computer must = the highest TL component.

 

[Madarin Dude]

I would say that there would be an additional cost to putting in the higher tech equipment. (running conduits etc. ) But it is withing reason. Keep the retrofitted tonnage within the limits of the original tonnage then you should be fine. I would apply a 25% extra to the retrofitted equipment to account for the additional equiment needed.

 

[aramis]

MT has specific section-based rules for it.
Your control panels requirement is based upon the maximum TL in the section and the cost of the components in that section.

 

[Fritz_Brown]

Good discussion....

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