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[Shipyard] Brilliance-class Liner [JTAS #1]

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Long Liner M2-HS14 Brilliance MCr253.9 [Tukera]


Using an 800-ton hull, the Brilliance-class Long Liner is a corporate business and government luxury passenger ship. The Brilliance requires a crew of nine: pilot, boat pilot, astrogator, three engineers and three stewards. The pinnace is an added luxury for making side trips and for ferrying passengers remotely.

Long liners operate along the Xboat route, typically jumping as many hexes as possible. Scheduled flights will often skip stops in order to better connect more important worlds; however, less important stops along the route can of course be chartered.

Passengers aboard a Brilliance liner are not idle while aboard. Just the opposite: the passengers’ space is designed for planning meetings, breakout sessions, think-tanks and times of intense focus, problem-solving and even confrontation, compromise and deal-making. There is a lounge, several meeting rooms and a library. The four largest staterooms are luxury suites. Twelve more staterooms are double sized, and the remaining 12 are standard size.

To balance out these intense sessions of work, passengers are subjected to excessive luxury. Stewards dote on guests, personalising each room to relax its occupant, preparing classical shugiili-quality Vilani meals, selecting music and reading material to suit the guest’s taste and organising various entertainments in the dining lounge, including booking guest lecturers on topics of interest, popular performers, star authors, discussion groups and workshops, games and so on. Luxury supplies of a bewildering variety are stocked in each stateroom.

Because these liners are for corporate and government use, costs are absorbed by the company or government. If a civilian had the opportunity to fly Brilliance, it would be because a friend or associate had an extra ticket.

Overtonnage: 44 tons
Crew comfort: -2
Passenger demand: +5

Code:
    Tons  TN  Component                             MCr  Notes
--------  --  --------------------------------- -------  --------------------
     800  12  Streamlined Hull                       50  S
       0  13  AV=6. 1 Kinetic Polymer                 0  
     288  12  Jump Fuel (4  parsecs)                  0  J4, 72t/pc
      32  12  Plant Fuel (one month)                  0  one month
       7  13  Maneuver Drive-1 (D)                   14  1 G
      49  15  PowerPlant-4 (R)                       49  P 4
      85  15  Imp Jump Drive-4 (R)                   85  J 4
       3  16  Computer Model/3 std                 10.5  
       2  13  Life Support Long Term                  2  40 person-months
       3  13  Life Support Luxury (3)                 3  #3 10 high passengers
       1  15  Life Support Adaptable                  1  10 sophonts
       2  15  Counsellor                            0.2  
       9  15  Standard Controls                       0  
       1  15  Crew Common Fresher                     1  10 crew
       8  13  Crew Lounge (2)                         0  #2 
       4  15  Spacer Niche (4)                      0.4  #4 1 crew
      10  13  Crew Stateroom (5)                    0.5  #5 1 crew
       4  12  Cargo Hold Basic                        0  
      24  13  Luxury Stateroom (4)                  1.6  #4 1 passenger + fresher
      24  13  Standard Stateroom (12)               1.2  #12 1 passenger
      40  15  Meeting Rooms (10)                      0  #10 
      48  15  Luxury Stateroom Small (12)           3.6  #12 1 passenger + fresher
      32  13  Dining Lounge                           0  
      42  15  Conference Center                       0  
      12  15  Luxury Fresher (12)                    12  #12 
      32  15  Shugilii Kitchen (2)                    0  #2 
      32  15  Library/Study (2)                       0  #2 
      40  14  Slow Pinnace                           18  
      10  13  Hangar Overhead                         0
 
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Long Liner M2-HS24 Brilliance MCr407.7 [GsBAG]

...passengers are subjected to excessive luxury. Stewards dote on guests, personalising each room to relax its occupant, preparing classical shugiili-quality Vilani meals, selecting music and reading material to suit the guest’s taste and organising various entertainments in the dining lounge, including booking guest lecturers on topics of interest, popular performers, star authors, discussion groups and workshops, games and so on. Luxury supplies of a bewildering variety are stocked in each stateroom.

If all this is true why is passenger demand +0?

Because these liners are for corporate and government use, costs are absorbed by the company or government. If a civilian had the opportunity to fly Brilliance, it would be because a friend or associate had an extra ticket.

This explains your position on availability but what would the rules say about demand?


Crew comfort: -1
Passenger demand: +0

BTW, you've done an incredible job of helping me see T5 in a better light. I'm eagerly awaiting my copy as opposed to the previous dread I felt.
 
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Your comments on Passenger Demand are on target. And actually, this design is more than a year old, which means I need to update it.
 
214?

Wasn't there something like over 200 persons on board one of these when it blew up? Seems like this version is a lot lower than that in passengers.
 
The Trimkhana Brilliance was a drop tank design, presumably either jump-5 or jump-6. (The likeliest route to Regina for a high-performance liner service is from Rhylanor, 10 parsecs from Regina; jump-5 would be if it was designed for a J5 route, jump-6 if it was designed for J6 routes and repurposed).

If you accept MgT adventures as canon, the class was jump-6 (It's mentioned in my A Festive Occasion as providing high-speed service between Rhylanor and Mora).

"The lounge is already occupied by the passengers and crew of the Trimkhana Brilliance, a fancy jump-6 liner that just arrived from Rhylanor (2716) via Heroni (2521) and docked a little while ago. The roughly 80 passengers and 20 crew are already somewhat upset about the situation; "​

(I wrote a TNS newsbrief about Tukera plans to shift some of the jump-6 liners to a new route, but the newsbriefs didn't make it to publication).


Hans
 
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