Real world yachts as analogies for Trav ships.

[Blue Ghost]

Here's a link to some video of the Pegasus, a privately run yacht accomodating six staterooms for guests, and a crew of 23 bunking somewhere below decks. She weighs in at 2300 tons. Note the colossal cruise liner ships in the background as she sails into port.

There have got to be massive cruise liner ships in Traveller that put the AHL and even a BB or DN or two to shame size wise. I mean those luxury liners dwarf a CVN in terms of height and accommodations. Surely there's are lots of Trav equivalents parading through the Imperium and elsewhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4IvGccoDl0&feature=related

 

[Hyphen]

There have got to be massive cruise liner ships in Traveller that put the AHL and even a BB or DN or two to shame size wise.

The King Richard springs to mind. Likewise the old Judges Guild modular liner (Darnatheon Queen? something like that...)

There's also that thing in <spit> T4's ship book, which may be salvagable...

Most other liners in Trav materials are smaller, such as Tukera's Gold of Zurrain.

Then there's the Al Morai ship, which is far too cool a design to be relegated to being a cargo hauler...

 

[samuelvss]

The subsidized liner always seemed like a good yacht.

As to liners, I never imagined Huge; the King Richard always seemed about the max.

 

[DangerousThing]

The subsidized liner always seemed like a good yacht.

As to liners, I never imagined Huge; the King Richard always seemed about the max.

A real luxury liner should be huge. The King Richard is tiny compared to real world lux liners. There isn't enough common area to hold a decent ball with open bar!

 

[Blue Ghost]

The Morai is an interesting example. I never saw any deck plans or other stats for it beyond the pic in the old Traveller Adventure book. I remember the Judge's Guild adventure, and had a peak inside, but never really perused it much. I never thought much of the Judges' Guild publications... I think Hunter'll vouch for me there. They may have been rich in content, but they were poorly presented in my opinion. Spiffying them up would have proved beneficial.

 

[far-trader]

The Morai is an interesting example. I never saw any deck plans or other stats for it beyond the pic in the old Traveller Adventure book...

...because the whole creation is so horribly broken or mangled in editing/production that I could never make heads or tails of what it should be

I have sat down and started deckplans for it based on the illo in The Spinward Marches Campaign a few times and always end up wanting to throw things.

It'd be better and saner to start from scratch, which I did do once, not for the Al Morai, but my own very large liner. A 10k or 15K (or 25K?) tonner I don't really remember... it was big. I did deckplans too. Not fun, well maybe a little since nothing was thrown and they were finished. Not sure where I've put or posted them beyond originally being part of a JTAS design contest several years ago. Can't even recall the name of the thing now. If I feel lucky and ambitious later maybe I'll try and hunt it up on the backups.

 

[Gray Pennell]

In my 1105-1107 campaign my bad guys are Space Liner manufacturer an run space lines/transport. There largest is 36,000tons with 10,000 being the most common. They have been using this ability to expand and have even converted 3 30K liners in to small fleet tenders supported by a few 10,000 ton. as troop and supply ships. Can the Imperuim take them sure but they will soon be busy with other things.

So I agree big space liners are there.

 

[coliver988]

additional concept yachts

http://weburbanist.com/2012/05/05/4-fantasy-yachts-blend-sleek-silly-in-style/

 

[DangerousThing]

Neat. And they don't look that different from space ships anyway.

 

[tater]

Neat. And they don't look that different from space ships anyway.

Actually, you could imagine a yacht that looks VERY much like those concepts, including being designed to be seaworthy as actual water yachts (ducted jets for propulsion in water). Mechanical spaces below to move the CG down. Land your yacht at sea on any suitable world, and enjoy their coastal regions.