On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 10:56 PM, [Traveller_TNE] <
> wrote:
>
>
> My take on Traveller PC-scale starships is that they were always intended
> to be breakbulk ships, not container ships. The Traveller equivalent of
> Sealand, Lykes, and Maersk ships are all multi-Kton megacorp ships, and
> you would see the containers from the outside because they would be loaded
> and unloaded in orbit. (IMTU the ships that carried the containers up and
> down looked like Thunderbird 2.) The containers that I saw in Traveller
> starships are like those irregular pentagon cross-section containers they
> use for air freight, much smaller than tractor-trailer/container ship
> containers.
>
Pretty much my take on it too. Funny how topics go in cycles, Containers
and suck have been wandering through the larger volume of Traveller Fandom
this winter.
I play a lot of miniatures games and well 15mm SF is my niche, with that I
found that a cargo box based on a index card (a Box 3x3x5) in 1/100th scale
(1.5 meters = 15mm) is real close to being a 50 dTon box. So the idea has
occurred the standard interstellar Cargo Container is 50 & 100 dTons.
(Think some of the cargo ships in BSG). Now add in the standard Bay
Mounts.... And you can see where I am going.
--
Evyn
> wrote:
>
>
> My take on Traveller PC-scale starships is that they were always intended
> to be breakbulk ships, not container ships. The Traveller equivalent of
> Sealand, Lykes, and Maersk ships are all multi-Kton megacorp ships, and
> you would see the containers from the outside because they would be loaded
> and unloaded in orbit. (IMTU the ships that carried the containers up and
> down looked like Thunderbird 2.) The containers that I saw in Traveller
> starships are like those irregular pentagon cross-section containers they
> use for air freight, much smaller than tractor-trailer/container ship
> containers.
>
Pretty much my take on it too. Funny how topics go in cycles, Containers
and suck have been wandering through the larger volume of Traveller Fandom
this winter.
I play a lot of miniatures games and well 15mm SF is my niche, with that I
found that a cargo box based on a index card (a Box 3x3x5) in 1/100th scale
(1.5 meters = 15mm) is real close to being a 50 dTon box. So the idea has
occurred the standard interstellar Cargo Container is 50 & 100 dTons.
(Think some of the cargo ships in BSG). Now add in the standard Bay
Mounts.... And you can see where I am going.
--
Evyn