Bhoins, is your Americanism showing? I think most of these folks have (in one sense) all the time in the world to make their rounds. Most of these folks are going to be "for life" appointments, or hereditary positions, so you won't have to make the rounds in any kind of hurry.
Not quite
Hmmm...you know, it could matter a lot when this discussion is taking place.
Sounds like a good outline. I'd add three notes, which you may or may not agree with:
Around 5000 tons. Note that this is because of the J-6, and you still have only 2Gs. You simply can't build a J-6 ship that is much more than a courier.
well, that will depend on what else you want it to do. does that 75 include crew? stewards? valets? sycophants? beauty specialists? how about maneuver 6? agility 6? nuke damper screen 9? meson screen 9? ship's troops, how many? gigs? ship's boats? lifeboats? guests? self-repair facilities? cargo? command center? weapons? ambassadorial reception facilities? giant kitchen catering to everyone's whims? fuel purifier? the biggest computer available? J6 messenger capability? binky two dton cabins for everyone, or fifty dton archducal royal suites and forty dton oridnary suites for all the hangers-on? hospital?
I suppose that's what I get for asking a question like that.
it's not too hard. J6 is 7%, j fuel is 60%, the power plant will be 6% minimum with 6% power plant fuel, the bridge is 2%, the fuel purifier will be about 1%, crew will be about 4%, ship's cargo should be at least 1%. to that add the maneuver drive you want the ship to have - 2% for m1, 5% for m2, 8% for m3, 11% for m4, 14% for m5, 17% for m6. add all that up, and then subtract it from 100%. now just figure out the dtonnage of everything you want to add to that (like computer, screens, non-crew staterooms, etc), divide the ammenities dtonnage by the remainder percentage, and that will be the approximate dtonnage of the ship.
There are rules for including stewards in the crew. I'd use these. And I do not have such a negative picture of nobles as pampered sissies who carry around professional sycophants.
Impossible for a J-6 ship, unless you use the "2000-ton Book2 Sneak". Agility 6, combined with screens or weapons, is especially impossible.
Trivial, since you have low M-Drive but high PP, these are not energy hogs.
A dozen was part of the specification.
Yes. Several? What for?
Were included in the original specs.
No rules for these exist.
Every ship has some cargo space. But large amounts? What for?
This ship is explicitly not a military command vessel.
If the Archduke comes to visit, I would expect him to get a reception on the planet.
Such things are generally included in the stateroom tonnages.
Of course.
What do you mean by that?
No, since passengers require full staterooms. For the big man himself, a double-stateroom owner's suite as in the original yacht is appropriate.
for an archduke?</font>[/QUOTE]Unless he is one of the aforementioned pampered sissies, yes.</font>[/QUOTE]I think we have a conceptual problem here. a personal representative of the emperor in charge of thousands of naval warships and thousands of worlds is not going to live in a double-cabin like some kind of high passenger. two decks of a tigress, maybe.
Why not? A double-cabin is considered pretty luxurious already.
1. Archdukes don't need to run election campaigns.
I find this lack of perspective disturbing.
very well. consider louis XIV with tech 15 and an annual personal budget of 100,000MCr.
I find a lack of openness... well regrettable at most. It takes a lot more to disturb me.
And on other ships, the captain has far smaller quarters. Not to even speak of submarines which are IMHO a better analogy. This doesn't necessarily diminish him nor does it prevent him from working properly.
That's one example, which fits the "all the pomp he can get" extreme. Though of course, his massive spendings fullfilled a political aim which is not present for a Traveller Archduke, but this leads too far here.
