Shivva class floor plans

[vegascat]

Has anyone olse come up with floor plans for the Zhodani Shivva class patrol vessel?

I read that some of you had problems getting them to come out right.

I would post my floor plans if I could figure out how.

The basic layout is a block enginerring section with a stick pointing forward. place the lift and power trunk in the center of a tower 9X9 meters square. Fighter access is through dock clamps on the hull wall of the pilot quarters for instant access. Teh shuttle and fighters are mounted two fighters per side, offset on different decks to allow simultaneous launch. Turrets are mounted on the engineering section for greater field of fire.

 

[BeRKA]

There is a nice deckplan at:
http://www.perkworks.com/traveller/Shivva.html

The deckplan from Gurps Traveller is also usable.

(I am also planning to make a deckplan, including a history of the Shivvas in "history".)

Please keep me informed about your versions.

/BeRKA

 

[Jame]

Hear, hear! I'd go with the deckplans from GT:A1 myself, though it doesn't _quite_ match with Paul Schirf's plan.

Berka, when yer done, let us know, please?

 

[Andrew Boulton]

That is one -ing *ugly* ship!

Whoever designed it was obviously disturbed. The Tavrchedl' will be round shortly.

 

[Scarecrow]

Actually I think it's one of the most interesting Traveller ships I've ever seen. I like it a lot. It reminds me of a WEG Star Wars ship, actually.

Crow

 

[savage]

I agree its different and a nice job on pauls part.
Zho ships add a little flare to the game.

 

[vegascat]

Ugly ships make for good targets. You feel like you do the universe a favor by blowing them away.

 

[vegascat]

It is a good design using the drawing in Leviathan as a source. Ugly and alien. excellent job.

 

[kaladorn]

Originally posted by BeRKA:
http://www.perkworks.com/traveller/Shivva.html

This could only make sense to a mind-warped engineer-prole....

Good god, after seeing this ship design, I can't help but think that the FWs actually had a legitemate cause.... Zhodani anti-aesthetics!

 

[Scarecrow]

Now looking at Paul Schirf's plans and the '3D' drawing of the ship with the plans the two don't really correlate. ie: No fighter arms and some of the shapes don't quite match. Is there a reason for this? Bare in mind I know nothing about this ship beyond Paul's plans.

Crow

 

[vegascat]

The problem is that in Adv 4 Leviathan, Pg 43, there is a picture of an ugly ship. On Pg 42, is the description of the Shivva class patrol frigate.
In the ship encounter section on Pg 15 is a description of the Belgardian Navy Lancer.
The encouter tables give the possibility of several different ships that the illustration on Pg 43 could be. OF course, that ship could be almost anything.
The illustration doesn't show a shuttle or fighters docked suggesting that it isn't the Zho carrier.

 

[Tanuki]

Originally posted by vegascat:
The problem is that in Adv 4 Leviathan, Pg 43, there is a picture of an ugly ship. On Pg 42, is the description of the Shivva class patrol frigate.

Well, there's the problem. Leviathon has a whole bunch of problems. Among other things the Leviathon supposedly carries jump torpedoes for communications, breaking the 100-dton minimum for jump-capable ships. I wouldn't rely on anything in Leviathon that wasn't corraborated elsewhere.

 

[vegascat]

Ah, the experimental jump torpedoes.
Yes, you could upload a message of small package into it.
You could upload jump information and send it off.
Yes, you could wait for a reply, but I hope you are sitting on a farm, because it does not carry enough fuel to keep the jump drive cool and the jump bubble active for the trip out, so the message sent will miss jump every time. If a local star in the direction goes nova while you are waiting for a reply, that nova was the reply.
IMU, jump torpedoes exist, but they are snake oil and the lawyers are drooling over the many lawsuits. They exist, but do not work as advertised.
The accountant for the company that sold them was last seen with a brief case fill with all the companies money heading to a garden world somewhere past the Sol Sector.

 

[Vile]

Wow, 17 years - now that's a thread resurrection! But any thread in which Andrew posted is always worth another look.

I have often tried to come up with a working Shivva deck plan but never quite finished one. Has anyone else had a go in the interim?