Starport Frequency

[Diveguy]

Family convo tonight based on local observations, leading to a Traveller correspondence.

Even for Starport classes there might be some differences in traffic. which influence EVERYTHING downstream.

1-2 - Major spaceport, near-constant traffic, ships landing/launching are just a thing.

3-4 - Active but scaled. "Wow, it's mostly just in-system or orbital stuff here. That T-990 Dragonfly looks cool!"

5-6 - All traffic is awesome. "Yeah, we sometimes sit here all day without seeing anything. But any time we do I love it - that's a ship that came all the way from outer space!"

 

[kilemall]

Family convo tonight based on local observations, leading to a Traveller correspondence.

Even for Starport classes there might be some differences in traffic. which influence EVERYTHING downstream.

1-2 - Major spaceport, near-constant traffic, ships landing/launching are just a thing.

3-4 - Active but scaled. "Wow, it's mostly just in-system or orbital stuff here. That T-990 Dragonfly looks cool!"

5-6 - All traffic is awesome. "Yeah, we sometimes sit here all day without seeing anything. But any time we do I love it - that's a ship that came all the way from outer space!"

Range it 2-12, modify per starport type and pop.

2-4 low
5-9 scaled
10-12 high

Pop-7= DM
Starport A +3
Starport B +2
Starport C 0
Starport D -1
Starport E -2
Starport X -4
TL 7 or lower -2


For more refined results, probably separate system traffic and interstellar.

Xboat/trade routes, local trade codes/starport and pop/starport of nearby systems affect interstellar and asteroid/local pop/ind-poor-rich trade codes affecting local.

 

[Badenov]

So, I betray my background when my first thoughts on 'Starport Frequency' is it ought to be locally assigned in-system since there's no real way it could interfere outside the system (they're only a year or so apart time delay-wise, but spacially, the signals should have completely dissipated), but that all stations would monitor 121.5MHz for emergencies. Then I read the thread and realized as usual I had missed the point entirely.