IMTU I also had two standard size containers, but I think they were more
like 500 and 1000. The smaller ones were semi-streamlined for carriage to
and from the surface. Think of the TB2 oval pods, but instead of being
tapered fore-aft they were constant-diameter ovals. The larger ones were
rectangular and were for longer hauls without interfacing. The container
ships looked 2001's Discovery. They were probably inspired by obsessing
over movies like 2001 and Silent Running, and actually came to me in a
dream about a big interstellar container ship named Brigham Young of all
things. I spent a couple days drawing the ship from my dream, and showed
it to a friend of mine who said he didn't like it because Brigham Young
was a Mormon. Everyone's a critic.
> 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
>
like 500 and 1000. The smaller ones were semi-streamlined for carriage to
and from the surface. Think of the TB2 oval pods, but instead of being
tapered fore-aft they were constant-diameter ovals. The larger ones were
rectangular and were for longer hauls without interfacing. The container
ships looked 2001's Discovery. They were probably inspired by obsessing
over movies like 2001 and Silent Running, and actually came to me in a
dream about a big interstellar container ship named Brigham Young of all
things. I spent a couple days drawing the ship from my dream, and showed
it to a friend of mine who said he didn't like it because Brigham Young
was a Mormon. Everyone's a critic.
> 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
>