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TL C Dishukhash Goranig-class Imperial Liner
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Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 21:24:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alvin Plummer <alvin.plummer@sheridanc.on.ca>
Subject: TL C Dishukhash Goranig-class Imperial Liner
Ever thought that the liners that GDW provides are just a *little* too
small?
Where, here's a rather larger liner, just right for those populous star
system's. This particular liner was considered a "high-tech" liner in
the Empty Quarter: first built at 902 on Saree Tio (1129/Empty Quarter,
A210522-C in 1100), it became a fairly popular model, making the small
Akigaa-Zhihang Starship Company a steady source of revenue. About 14 of
these ship's were registered in the Domain at 1116: only one, The Hope of
Dawi Screen, is still operational at 1200, plying the Jewell - Kakege -
Louzy - Efate route.
The ship is somewhat longer than "standard form" requires, at 84 m.
Recently overhauled (treat ship as with Wear Value 3), the Dawi Screen is
currently the only ship of the Dawi Screen Line (owned, of course, by
Sir Dawi Screen, a highly successful stock speculator on Jewell).
The Hope of Dawi Screen is unique in Jewell subsector by being the first
non-high passenger craft to 'waste space' by providing gardens, gym's,
cafe's, stores' a observation lounge with a stunning "glass-bottom"
view, and a garden to passenger's. While other Liner captions are
willing to admit that 'customer care' is very nice on the Hope of Dawi
Screen, they think that the ship is still a white elephant: the space, in
their view, should have gone to extra cargo.
This ship is designed as an attempt to test out the concept of
'Value-added shipping': that is, prices for the Middle Passengers are
increased 25% in return for increased facilities and a more plesant trip.
Moreover, the usual heavy medical supervision needed for so many Low
Berther's has been 'outsourced' to planetary medical establishments,
reducing payroll drasically.
The Jewell government (which has a 10% stake in the ship) has managed to
convince the Regency government to loosen standard price restrictions and
medical regulations regarding shipping as a 'one-time' exception.
As adventures, most Travellers would be working on-board as crew:
this senario would provide a good intro for beginning Travellers,
providing variety and moderate adventure with the benefit of having a
'safe base' and deep pockets when need be. As the ship's fortunes rise,
so can the range of adventures and the importance of the ship grow.
(I mean, how many Imperial liner's do you know have an observation deck?
With additional Stewards, the ship can easily be converted to an High
Passenger enviroment, but the problem is, those passenger's are much less
likely to be sent in harm's way... and you don't want to cusion your
players to much, now do you?)
Experienced Travellers may instead be given the challange of playing Sir
Dawi Screen (or his direct representatives), attempting to manage the
ship, interact with the bureaucracy, wheel and deal with the port
masters, and satisfy the smallest complaint of his passenger's: all the
while trying to get (or increase) the profit's. The opportunity exists
to make serious money... or make powerful enemies.
TL C Dishukhash Gorangi-class Imperial Liner
Disp 2500 Hull Armour 10 P.P. 1500 Mw, 1 year duration
Len 84 m Volume 35000 Jump 3
Target M Tech C G-Rating 2
Config Cylinder AF Price 692.3 MCr G-Turns 35; 51.6 w/ jfuel
Mass 11 365/10 725 Maint 530
Computer 3 * TL C (st)
Commo 1000 AU Maser, 30 000 km Radio
Avionics TL 8+ Terrain 160 kph
Sensors A-EMS 3000 (long range in same hex), P-EMS 30 000
Extended L.S. w/AG
Complement 1050 - 50 Crew, 400 Middle Psg, 600 Low Passengers
Eng 17 Maneuv 2 Command 4 Medical 9
Elect 1 Main 4 Stewards 13
Accomo Sm. Stateroom x 450
Low Berths x 600
Cargo 46 kl [234 kl passenger storage]
Airlocks 25
No fuel Scoop's, purification
Frills: 1100 kl Activity Room/Observation Deck
234 kl's worth of cafe's, club's, lounges
174 kl observation lounge
201 kl Garden
Combat: 575/22
Travel 12408/960
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Surface Area
1 1-2 Maser Ant
3-4 Radio
5-9 A-EMS
10 P-EMS
11- 20 Hull
2-17 Hull
18 1 Sm Cargo Hatch
2 - 20 Hull
Damage Area
1 1 - 3 Electronics 17 Hold (fuel)
4 - 20 Quarters 18 - 19 1 - 14 Hold
2 - 14 Quarters 15 - 20 Engineer
15-16 1 - 11 Quarters 20 Engineering
12 - 20 Hold (fuel)
System Damage
Electronics
Maser, Radio, A-EMS, P-EMS + Ant's : (1h)
Hold
Cargo 1 H
Quarters
Sm. Staterooms (2h) x 450 L.Bths (1h) x 600 Gym 10 H
Observation Deck 2 H, Garden 2 H
ArrtiGrav 7 H
L.S 12 H
E.L.S. 6 H
Engineering
Jump 35 H
HEPlaR 1 H
Fusion P. 30 H
Contra G 8 H
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Alvin Plummer
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