Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 21:24:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Alvin Plummer Subject: TL C Dishukhash Goranig-class Imperial Liner Ever thought that the liners that GDW provides are just a *little* too small? Where, here's a rather larger liner, just right for those populous star system's. This particular liner was considered a "high-tech" liner in the Empty Quarter: first built at 902 on Saree Tio (1129/Empty Quarter, A210522-C in 1100), it became a fairly popular model, making the small Akigaa-Zhihang Starship Company a steady source of revenue. About 14 of these ship's were registered in the Domain at 1116: only one, The Hope of Dawi Screen, is still operational at 1200, plying the Jewell - Kakege - Louzy - Efate route. The ship is somewhat longer than "standard form" requires, at 84 m. Recently overhauled (treat ship as with Wear Value 3), the Dawi Screen is currently the only ship of the Dawi Screen Line (owned, of course, by Sir Dawi Screen, a highly successful stock speculator on Jewell). The Hope of Dawi Screen is unique in Jewell subsector by being the first non-high passenger craft to 'waste space' by providing gardens, gym's, cafe's, stores' a observation lounge with a stunning "glass-bottom" view, and a garden to passenger's. While other Liner captions are willing to admit that 'customer care' is very nice on the Hope of Dawi Screen, they think that the ship is still a white elephant: the space, in their view, should have gone to extra cargo. This ship is designed as an attempt to test out the concept of 'Value-added shipping': that is, prices for the Middle Passengers are increased 25% in return for increased facilities and a more plesant trip. Moreover, the usual heavy medical supervision needed for so many Low Berther's has been 'outsourced' to planetary medical establishments, reducing payroll drasically. The Jewell government (which has a 10% stake in the ship) has managed to convince the Regency government to loosen standard price restrictions and medical regulations regarding shipping as a 'one-time' exception. As adventures, most Travellers would be working on-board as crew: this senario would provide a good intro for beginning Travellers, providing variety and moderate adventure with the benefit of having a 'safe base' and deep pockets when need be. As the ship's fortunes rise, so can the range of adventures and the importance of the ship grow. (I mean, how many Imperial liner's do you know have an observation deck? With additional Stewards, the ship can easily be converted to an High Passenger enviroment, but the problem is, those passenger's are much less likely to be sent in harm's way... and you don't want to cusion your players to much, now do you?) Experienced Travellers may instead be given the challange of playing Sir Dawi Screen (or his direct representatives), attempting to manage the ship, interact with the bureaucracy, wheel and deal with the port masters, and satisfy the smallest complaint of his passenger's: all the while trying to get (or increase) the profit's. The opportunity exists to make serious money... or make powerful enemies. TL C Dishukhash Gorangi-class Imperial Liner Disp 2500 Hull Armour 10 P.P. 1500 Mw, 1 year duration Len 84 m Volume 35000 Jump 3 Target M Tech C G-Rating 2 Config Cylinder AF Price 692.3 MCr G-Turns 35; 51.6 w/ jfuel Mass 11 365/10 725 Maint 530 Computer 3 * TL C (st) Commo 1000 AU Maser, 30 000 km Radio Avionics TL 8+ Terrain 160 kph Sensors A-EMS 3000 (long range in same hex), P-EMS 30 000 Extended L.S. w/AG Complement 1050 - 50 Crew, 400 Middle Psg, 600 Low Passengers Eng 17 Maneuv 2 Command 4 Medical 9 Elect 1 Main 4 Stewards 13 Accomo Sm. Stateroom x 450 Low Berths x 600 Cargo 46 kl [234 kl passenger storage] Airlocks 25 No fuel Scoop's, purification Frills: 1100 kl Activity Room/Observation Deck 234 kl's worth of cafe's, club's, lounges 174 kl observation lounge 201 kl Garden Combat: 575/22 Travel 12408/960 ************************* Surface Area 1 1-2 Maser Ant 3-4 Radio 5-9 A-EMS 10 P-EMS 11- 20 Hull 2-17 Hull 18 1 Sm Cargo Hatch 2 - 20 Hull Damage Area 1 1 - 3 Electronics 17 Hold (fuel) 4 - 20 Quarters 18 - 19 1 - 14 Hold 2 - 14 Quarters 15 - 20 Engineer 15-16 1 - 11 Quarters 20 Engineering 12 - 20 Hold (fuel) System Damage Electronics Maser, Radio, A-EMS, P-EMS + Ant's : (1h) Hold Cargo 1 H Quarters Sm. Staterooms (2h) x 450 L.Bths (1h) x 600 Gym 10 H Observation Deck 2 H, Garden 2 H ArrtiGrav 7 H L.S 12 H E.L.S. 6 H Engineering Jump 35 H HEPlaR 1 H Fusion P. 30 H Contra G 8 H ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alvin Plummer "Preserve what we created, Norris, and remember what we stood for." - Strephon, 179-1126 Reply to: alvin.plummer@SHERIDANC.ON.CA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------