I'm a gamer and an occasional amateur writer, and I was wondering what software the combined wisdom of the Spacebattles forums could recommend for rapidly generating starship designs for games and such. Aug 23, 2018 Design, build, and launch starships with Star Trek Starship Creator. As the newest admiral in Starfleet, you are able to build your ultimate starship and send it on a mission. Through the ship's log you can find out how well you designed it and whether you.
But more then just presenting my own designs, I invite my fellow O-Deckers to come up with designs of their own! I myself like to focus on the classic Trek film era, but your designs can be of any era! I like to use toolkits I found online to take parts to copy and paste together to look like actual schematics, and you can do that, too! (You don't need anything fancy, I do mine in Microsoft.
The ShipyardAlmost anyone that travels between worlds dreams of owning their own transportation. A lucky few (in comparison) can afford to do so. Shipyards are where those few make their dreams into reality.
The Freelance Traveller shipyard is where you can find descriptions and specifications (and eventually deck plans and interior pictures, we hope) for starships and spaceships for all sorts of missions. Ultimately, as we receive additional contributions (from you, our readers), all incarnations of Traveller will be supported.
Freelance Traveller is also proud to be able to offer, free for you to download, the BITS publication 101 Starships, Seventh Edition. This document, authored by Rob Prior, contains descriptions and design worksheets for a wide range of spaceships and starships suitable for use with GURPS Traveller. Freelance Traveller has, with permission, selected a number of designs from this collection to start off this section. Additional designs from 101 Starships may be added as time permits, but we encourage you to download the PDF document to enjoy the entire set immediately.
- Bargam class Tramp Trader (Rob Prior)
- Cardos class Fast Yacht (Rob Prior)
- Irbak class System Defense Boat (Rob Prior)
In addition to the designs from 101 Starships listed above, you can find more GURPS Traveller designs here at Freelance Traveller's shipyard.
We aren't neglecting Classic Traveller, MegaTraveller, Traveller: The New Era, Marc Miller's Traveller (T4), Traveller20, or Mongoose Traveller designs either.
The following designs don't appear to fit into any of our other classifications, or are supplied in for multiple rule sets:
- President-class Holiday Cruiser (Michael Gilliam)
- Chukkar-class Modular Merchant (John T. Kwon)
- Running Ox-class Merchant (Bruce Johnson)
- Pawel-class Modular Cutter (Ewan Quibell)
- Vagrant-class X-Boat Service Hull (Donovan Lambertus)
- Gas Giant Refueling/Refining Platform and Lighter (Scott Diamond)
- Naklaad-class Interface Merchant (Timothy Collinson)
- Repair Tugs (Joshua Levy)
- Carriers, Cruisers, and Cans
- Ken Pick has done a series of variant ship designs around his Beyond Book 2 rules extensions.
Articles on ship-design-related topics:
- Deck Cargo: Using External Pods for Increasing Cargo Capacity (Ken Pick)
- The Lyman Drive: An Alternative to the Standard Jump Drive (Jeff Zeitlin)
- Missile Magazines for High Guard (Joseph Kimball)
- Plantier Shields: An Alternative to Black Globes (Ken Pick)
- What Is Tonnage? (Ken Pick)
- On the Naming of Ships (Ken Pick)
- Commercial Efficiency Analysis of Selected Starships (Ken Pick)
- Beyond Book 2: Expanding the Basic Classic Traveller Starship Design System (Ken Pick)
- Ship Structure and Hull Size Limitations (Christopher Thrash)
- A Starship Design Tutorial (Peter Gray)
Beginning Design
Advanced Design - Densified Fuel Storage (Alex Goodwin)
- Building Bridges (Jared Noble)
- Drawing Deck Plans With Campaign Cartographer 2 Pro (Randy Tyler)
- Imperial Naval Doctrine (Kevin Walsh)
- Solomani Naval Doctrine (Kevin Walsh)
- Collapsible Fuel Tanks and Jump Drives 'On Rails' (Joshua Levy)
Spaceship Designer Software
The Ship's Locker - an eclectic collection of ... stuff.
The Starship Technical Manual (Terry Carlino)