T5 Starship Operations Expenses

[The Pakkrat]

I have been combing through the T5 book to locate any Ship Operations Expenses. I found the costs of:

Unrefined Fuel
Mortgage Costs
Crew Salary per month
Cost of Living (off-ship)

What I don't find, perhaps because I'm still thinking in Mongoose, are:

Maintenance Costs
Annual Overhaul (if there is no monthly Maintenance)
Berthing Fees (Highports, Downports, Beltports and even capital ship 'ports')
Repairs Costs (shipyard, drydock, Highport and Downport)
Insurance Premiums on a starship (if Insurance is a thing)

I did find that T5 does gloss over local world profit taxes as they are subsumed into the costs of buying and selling in the Trade & Commerce system.

Are there any other credit-sinks in T5 surrounding a crew and its starship that I am missing?

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[robject]

T5 indeed is missing these, and I think they should be there in some form. Except insurance (going too far), which I think it best subsumed into other costs.

Period is the elapsed active non-storage time between Reliability downgrades.
Period= Quality.
As each Period ends, reduce Reliability by 1.

Staving off Reliability Downgrades. When (or before) an object reaches Reliability Downgrade, a competent technician can perform an IROAN (Inspect and Repair Only As Necessary).

...

Success forestalls the Reliability Downgrade.

So starship maintenance costs are tied to maintenance period.

EXAMPLE. Your Free Trader has Quality 6, and a default Reliability of 0. After twelve months, its Reliability would sink to -1... which we do not want to happen. So near the end of each year, it needs inspection.

That much is in T5.

What is missing is the starship-specific example from Classic Traveller: inspection takes two weeks and costs a flat 1% of the purchase price (call it the insurance premium if you like).


Also in T500:

Each adventuring ship has a continuing need for money to pay expenses such as crew salary, maintenance, life support, and other supplies. This cash flow is handled through the Ship's Account.

The ship spends several days at the starport loading cargo and freight and booking passengers. During the time, the crew splits its efforts between maintenance and recreation.

 

[Ulsyus]

I used both the GT Far Trader and Starports supplements to help out with those sorts of things in my T5 campaign. P66 in the former and 25 in the latter, though Starportstalks about it without giving hard costs.