Exactly right.
Plus, I loved the chance to resurrect or pay homage to old classic Trav
stuff, and the Kinunirs were definitely that. Everyone's first "big" ship.
Dave
> OK, since I still have the LBB of 'The Kinunir' I decided to put ,my
> research goggles on and break it out and grab some useful tidbits from it.
>
> The Following is a list of officially contracted yards that built
> Kinunirs.
> In total 21 hulls were built.
> Ling Standard
> Mars
> general
> GSB,AG
> clan Severn
> yard 17
>
> by 1105, 15 remain in service
> 6 of them, including the name bearer Kinunir, were declared lost or
> defunct, General shipyards constructed 4 and all 4 were failed vessels at
> one point or another. General Shipyards is the only yard as far as I can
> tell that is a spinward states shipyard. LSP, being a Megacorp, could have
> built them in any yard in the Old imperium.and yard 17 is actually
> specified as building them at superior quality. and since they built 6 of
> them, it may be reasonably assumed theirs were the ones that have survived
> to the new ea, if any did.
> The Navy decided to discontinue production in 1089
> the design has been around since the fourth frontier war, Where the Allamu
> and the Ninkur sagga were lost in the "battle of two suns" in 1084 between
> yres and Menorb.
> So, with so few Kinunirs actually in service before the Hard times and the
> collapse, it is a wonder that ANY survived to the new era. so how can we
> explain that detail away?
> Easy, the designs were standard, had been around for decades, and after
> the
> Black War began, a beefier version of the broadsword Merc cruiser became a
> necessity. Well off and Successful Merc Units may well have resurrected
> the
> life of the kinunir class as a worthier version of a merc cruiser
> considering it is actually BETTER at the broadswords job than the
> broadsword itself. So in all likelihood, most, if not ALL kinunirs
> mentioned in TNE are likely of hard times era construction.
> There is also a possibility that some were constructed "unofficialy" by
> yards OUTSIDE the Imperium depending on how the original Kinunir adventure
> played itself out based on 'The Scrapyard" version of the Players
> encounter
> with a patron looking for specific construction details of a Kinunir.
> If someone were to use that reasoning, the vargr would probably paid well
> for those designs as nothing in canon print claiming that Vargr possess an
> equivalent, though the Aslan do.
>
>
> --
> "Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay
> for
> it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their
> kids pay for it."
>
Plus, I loved the chance to resurrect or pay homage to old classic Trav
stuff, and the Kinunirs were definitely that. Everyone's first "big" ship.
Dave
> OK, since I still have the LBB of 'The Kinunir' I decided to put ,my
> research goggles on and break it out and grab some useful tidbits from it.
>
> The Following is a list of officially contracted yards that built
> Kinunirs.
> In total 21 hulls were built.
> Ling Standard
> Mars
> general
> GSB,AG
> clan Severn
> yard 17
>
> by 1105, 15 remain in service
> 6 of them, including the name bearer Kinunir, were declared lost or
> defunct, General shipyards constructed 4 and all 4 were failed vessels at
> one point or another. General Shipyards is the only yard as far as I can
> tell that is a spinward states shipyard. LSP, being a Megacorp, could have
> built them in any yard in the Old imperium.and yard 17 is actually
> specified as building them at superior quality. and since they built 6 of
> them, it may be reasonably assumed theirs were the ones that have survived
> to the new ea, if any did.
> The Navy decided to discontinue production in 1089
> the design has been around since the fourth frontier war, Where the Allamu
> and the Ninkur sagga were lost in the "battle of two suns" in 1084 between
> yres and Menorb.
> So, with so few Kinunirs actually in service before the Hard times and the
> collapse, it is a wonder that ANY survived to the new era. so how can we
> explain that detail away?
> Easy, the designs were standard, had been around for decades, and after
> the
> Black War began, a beefier version of the broadsword Merc cruiser became a
> necessity. Well off and Successful Merc Units may well have resurrected
> the
> life of the kinunir class as a worthier version of a merc cruiser
> considering it is actually BETTER at the broadswords job than the
> broadsword itself. So in all likelihood, most, if not ALL kinunirs
> mentioned in TNE are likely of hard times era construction.
> There is also a possibility that some were constructed "unofficialy" by
> yards OUTSIDE the Imperium depending on how the original Kinunir adventure
> played itself out based on 'The Scrapyard" version of the Players
> encounter
> with a patron looking for specific construction details of a Kinunir.
> If someone were to use that reasoning, the vargr would probably paid well
> for those designs as nothing in canon print claiming that Vargr possess an
> equivalent, though the Aslan do.
>
>
> --
> "Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay
> for
> it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their
> kids pay for it."
>