Eric replied to me: > > space-only ship in the 100-ton range, but it is difficult to > > justify the lack of landing capability at TL14 or TL15. > > > - A jury-rigged contraption of a 10-ton ship fused to three > > 30-ton pods, one a habitat, one a hangar, one a workshop to > > keep the whole lot flying. > > What about some variant of LASH where the "ship" is more or less two > ships docked. One us Dispersed with Long Term modules: FTL, medical, > Workshop, Quarters, Large Bridge. One is Streamlined with cockpit, > cargo, STL engines. > > > (visually, I could imagine the mother ship with FTL around the dropship, > with the dropship's engines radially along its gravitational center...)
The Traveller Lab Ship? A modular ship would be a different meme. The lander would be like a racehorse yoked to a farm cart. What I want instead is a gossamer butterfly -- the TL10 draft does 0.01 G, the TL11 draft does 0.25 G, no more than half a G at TL12. Also, a modular design mostly makes sense if the performance is marginal all around, if it is impossible to bring the FTL drive and quarters down into the gravity well and up again. >From TL11 upwards, that isn't the case. Adding a couple of G acceleration to a ship with FTL is relatively easy and cheap. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
