Commo and Sensor Packages for T5

[robject]

Here are commo and sensor elements from MegaTraveller. I'd like to find out what their FFS2 counterparts are, decide what adjustments to make, rebuild the table below, and from there build four electronics packages, following these guidelines:

Vehicle Electronics Package Low volume (no more than 0.1t), KCr150. Regional/continental commo and sensors.

Smallcraft Electronics Package Insignificant volume (no more than 0.1t), KCr500. Built for orbital-range operations.

Commercial Spacecraft Electronics Package Insignificant volume (no more than 0.1t), MCr1. Built for system ranges and typical "light combat" range.

Survey Electronics Package A few MCr. Built for finding things that are hard to find. Good for military operations as well as Scout ships.

In addition, I'd like people's thoughts about the data broadcaster that's in the X-Boat. I suggest a high-bandwidth broadcaster that takes up one slot in a turret and displaces appx 1/3 ton. Thus three of them would fill a triple turret and would displace the 1 ton that would normally be needed for fire control in CT.

That could mean a battery of 300 laser communicators with a 1000 AU range, at appx 1 MW, for MCr54.

MegaTraveller                                    Fire, Fusion, and Steel 2                  
                                                                                            
Component             Volume(m3) Cost (Cr)       Component             Volume(m3) Cost (Cr) 
--------------------- ---------  ---------       --------------------- ---------  --------- 
Regional radio          0.0002        500        Regional radio/1kW       -           8,000 
Planetary radio         0.0014     30,000        Planetary radio/100kW    -         KCr 100 
System radio commo      0.014     KCr 150        System commo/200kW       -         KCr 150 
                                                                                            
                                                 System datacaster        4.5       MCr  54 
                                                                                            
VDistant PEMS           0.002      20,000        VDistant PEMS/50km       -          10,000 
Continental PEMS        0.01      KCr 100        Continental PEMS/5000km  -         MCr 2.5 
Interplanetary PEMS     0.014     KCr 140                                                   
Interstellar PEMS       0.032     KCr 320                                                   
                                                                                            
VDistant AEMS           0.01      KCr 100                                                   
Planetary AEMS          0.028     KCr 280                                                   
FarOrbit AEMS           0.06      KCr 600                                                   
                                                                                            
HP Densitometer, 1km    7.0       MCr 1.5                                                   
Neutrino Sensor, 10kw   0.2       KCr 110                                                   
FarOrbit EMS Jammer     0.12      MCr 1.2

So, does it matter whether a regional radio commo is Cr500 versus Cr8,000? Should a radio commo with a planetary range cost KCr 100,000?

 

[Andrew Boulton]

These are all TL-dependent.

 

[robject]

TL14-15, IIRC. If not, then please submit the correct versions?

 

[Maccat]

I always thought of the xboat (and xboat tender!) "communicators and data banks" as the form of the mail tonnage (5t). Even worked up a version which took advantage of hivers half cost, double storage computers to make an xboat at the same price as the standard one, got 18 "data bank" storage. The T4 design stuff i have i miss not specifying computers, and the costs were extremely expensive, especially when TL was taken into account. Lack of survey/scout/prospectors sensors (just what was removed from that 7.5t bay in the scout/courier?), at least one's that don't cost 65MCr, is something i would like to see addressed. Computers proper, with TL and limiting jump, programs are essential traveller to me. Not sure how all this is being implemented in T5.

 

[robject]

I always thought of the xboat (and xboat tender!) "communicators and data banks" as the form of the mail tonnage (5t).

That's an extremely good point Maccat. I have to remember this when I get around to designing the Xboat (which, sadly, I think is bound to be broken no matter what I do).