My polity managed to turn out several asteroid monitors 1 assault
version and 1 command version each about 200dtns, but they were
effectively imobile battlestations (as much as a TL8/9 200tn rock can be
a battle station)
richard
On 08/03/2015 08:22, Derek Stanley [Traveller_TNE] wrote:
> It was for a PE that had been crashed down to TL8.
>
> They started out as straight up assault shuttles. Get troops into
> orbit and try to get hands on anything that the meson gun doesn't
> destroy. After the meson gun is reactivated. Then they were quickly
> whacked over to SDB's while the orbital defenses were stabilized and
> the system was secured. After that they were retrofitted again with J1
> drives to explore and defend the 2 systems they could get at.
> Desperate times.
>
> Derek Stanley
> Sent from my iPhone...
>
> On Mar 7, 2015, at 22:03,
> <> [Traveller_TNE]
> < <>>
> wrote:
>
>> Oh, right, that's more of why we did and didn't mess with what we
>> did, not
>> only did we have the standard Traveller focus, we also knew that we were
>> leaving hooks for 2300, which also had no use for tea kettle drives.
>>
>> > I built a TL9 ish ship with collapsible spun habs that was later
>> upgraded
>> > to incorporate TL10 grav plates. It was fun to play with but man it was
>> > an atrocious ship when you compare it to the TL12+ crowd.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > From:
>> <>
>> []
>> > Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2015 9:50 PM
>> > To:
>> <>
>> > Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Cheap Spacecraft
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 12:41 PM,
>> <>
>> > <> [Traveller_TNE]
>> > <
>> <>
>> <> >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > With all of this good conversation about cheap spaceflight, did anyone
>> > ever mess around with the "low-tech" spacecraft design stuff in Hard
>> > Times?
>> >
>> > I did a little, but with the prevalence of Grav tech in the Traveller
>> > Universe it got to be somewhat pointless.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Evyn
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>
version and 1 command version each about 200dtns, but they were
effectively imobile battlestations (as much as a TL8/9 200tn rock can be
a battle station)
richard
On 08/03/2015 08:22, Derek Stanley [Traveller_TNE] wrote:
> It was for a PE that had been crashed down to TL8.
>
> They started out as straight up assault shuttles. Get troops into
> orbit and try to get hands on anything that the meson gun doesn't
> destroy. After the meson gun is reactivated. Then they were quickly
> whacked over to SDB's while the orbital defenses were stabilized and
> the system was secured. After that they were retrofitted again with J1
> drives to explore and defend the 2 systems they could get at.
> Desperate times.
>
> Derek Stanley
> Sent from my iPhone...
>
> On Mar 7, 2015, at 22:03,
> <> [Traveller_TNE]
> < <>>
> wrote:
>
>> Oh, right, that's more of why we did and didn't mess with what we
>> did, not
>> only did we have the standard Traveller focus, we also knew that we were
>> leaving hooks for 2300, which also had no use for tea kettle drives.
>>
>> > I built a TL9 ish ship with collapsible spun habs that was later
>> upgraded
>> > to incorporate TL10 grav plates. It was fun to play with but man it was
>> > an atrocious ship when you compare it to the TL12+ crowd.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > From:
>> <>
>> []
>> > Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2015 9:50 PM
>> > To:
>> <>
>> > Subject: Re: [Traveller_TNE] Cheap Spacecraft
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 12:41 PM,
>> <>
>> > <> [Traveller_TNE]
>> > <
>> <>
>> <> >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > With all of this good conversation about cheap spaceflight, did anyone
>> > ever mess around with the "low-tech" spacecraft design stuff in Hard
>> > Times?
>> >
>> > I did a little, but with the prevalence of Grav tech in the Traveller
>> > Universe it got to be somewhat pointless.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Evyn
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>