--- On Tue, 10/9/12, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Brandon replied to me: > > > If you can dock with unpowered containers, you can > dock > > > with non-STL-capable stardrive components. > > > > Most containers don't carry expensive FTL drives or > crew. For safety, if > > nothing else, the FTL component needs some thrusters, > although a fraction of > > a G (say, 0.1G where 1G is common for commercial ships) > should be > > adequate. > > Well, if the drive and crew are so precious, give them a > proper ship to protect them :-)
We'll just have to agree to disagree about the FTL component having maneuvering thrusters. > > > That is, the SDBs are cargo, not > > > components of a FTL transport system. > > > > What if the jump shuttle was carrying a merchant ship > without jump drives > > but loaded with cargo and passengers instead of a SDB? > > Then it would be the LASH concept. Look at the deckplans > for Traveller SDBs and their jump shuttles -- the bow of > the shuttle encloses the stern of the SDB. Sure, that's how that combination does it. A jump shuttle could be designed to connect to the commercial STL component in way that doesn't interfere with it's operation (other than having more mass to move). > The more interesting concept uses the sublight drives of > the lighter to move the combined ship, but as mentioned > I find it hard to explain. Oh, I understand what you want, I just have a different idea of how it should be done ;) > > > Calculate operating costs according to GURPS ... > > > > Which makes me wonder if the divided ship approach is > cheaper than a > > single ship design. > > I don't think so, considering how cheap and light default > FTL drives are. I'm used to GURPS Traveller, which are quite expensive: Removing even Jump-1 drives cuts a ship's cost by 40-50%. Brandon _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
