The T4 adventure compilation Anomalies opens with a sample ship for the PCs to use, the Raptor. The ship is converted from a raider vessel to a merchant by the early Imperial Navy, then sold to reliable merchant adventurers for their use. The T4 stats are for a 400 ton TL-12 ship with J2, M3, 4 lasers, 10 staterooms and 8 low berths, and 100 tons of cargo space.
This ends up being to the Fat Trader what the Far Trader is to the Free Trader, a J2 version sacrificing cargo for range, but it sacrifices even more cargo space for armor, a faster maneuver drive, and extended operations. In a more peaceful time, dropping to 4 weeks operation, no armor, and reducing the maneuver drive to B/M1 (and dropping the power plant to D/P2) would make another 86 tons available for cargo.
I'm actually pretty happy with how simple it was to make this ship a relatively close approximation of the original. I was expecting to have to make hard choices to get close to the original, but the only tweak I had to do was doubling the armor and the weeks of operation from my first rough build.
The most common modification is to use the three tons of empty space to install fuel processors. This increases the monthly maintenance to 12,507 Cr.
This ends up being to the Fat Trader what the Far Trader is to the Free Trader, a J2 version sacrificing cargo for range, but it sacrifices even more cargo space for armor, a faster maneuver drive, and extended operations. In a more peaceful time, dropping to 4 weeks operation, no armor, and reducing the maneuver drive to B/M1 (and dropping the power plant to D/P2) would make another 86 tons available for cargo.
I'm actually pretty happy with how simple it was to make this ship a relatively close approximation of the original. I was expecting to have to make hard choices to get close to the original, but the only tweak I had to do was doubling the armor and the weeks of operation from my first rough build.
The most common modification is to use the three tons of empty space to install fuel processors. This increases the monthly maintenance to 12,507 Cr.
| Tons | MCr | ||
| Hull | Streamlined, Hull 8/Structure 8 | 400 | 17.6 |
| Armor | Crystaliron 8 | 40 | 7.04 |
| Jump Drive | D (J2) | 25 | 40 |
| Maneuver Drive | F (M3) | 11 | 24 |
| Power Plant | F (P3) | 19 | 48 |
| Bridge | Standard | 20 | 2 |
| Computer | Model 1/bis | 0 | 0.045 |
| Electronics | Basic Civilian | 1 | 0.05 |
| Weapons | 4x Single Beam Laser Turret | 4 | 4.8 |
| Fuel | 1 Jump, 8 Weeks Operation | 128 | |
| Cargo | 100 | ||
| Staterooms | 10 | 40 | 5 |
| Low Berths | 8 | 4 | 0.4 |
| Extras | Escape Pods (10) | 5 | 1 |
| Software | Jump/2 | 0.2 | |
| Totals | 397 | 150.135 | |
| Monthly Maintenance | 12,494 Cr | ||
| Life Support | 20,800-30,800 Cr |
