First ship

adamlumina93 · Lieutenant Joined: 07 Nov 2005 Posts: 87

Anyone have any good suggestions on a space transport to start my players with for a smuggler campaign that isnt a Ghtroc or a YT1300
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cheshire · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:31 pm Post subject:

I gave one of my gaming groups a rickety old Gozanti Cruiser. It's armored to death. I had to back the weapons down a bit, due to its stock munchkiny flavor (I said that they had been removed when the New Order took over and imposed greater restrictions).

You can find them in the Starships of the Galaxy conversion guide.
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Esoomian · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 10:34 pm Post subject:

I've always found the Sienar Fleet Systems "Lone Scout-A" to be more than acceptable.
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wolfe · Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:45 am Post subject:

I'd have them browse through the Starship stats R&E and The starships of the galaxy pdfs as there are alot to choose from.

Raven Redstar · Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 2:38 am Post subject:

I'm a big fan of the Kazellis Light Freighter, It's a solid base, and I like the shape. Smile

Craft: Kazellis Corporation Light Freighter
Affiliation: General
Era: Rise of the Empire
Source: Stock Ships (pages 29-31), Pirates & Privateers
(page 61)
Type: Light freighter
Scale: Starfighter
Length: 28 meters
Skill: Space transports: Kazellis freighter
Crew: 1, gunners: 1
Crew Skill: Varies widely
Passengers: 8
Cargo Capacity: 100 metric tons
Consumables: 2 months
Cost: 23,000 (used)
Hyperdrive Multiplier: x2
Hyperdrive Backup: x12
Nav Computer: Yes
Maneuverability: 2D
Space: 5
Atmosphere: 350; 1,000 kmh
Hull: 4D
Shields: 2D
Sensors:
Passive: 20/1D
Scan: 50/2D
Search: 70/2D+1
Focus: 4/3D
Weapons:
Quad Laser Cannon
Fire Arc: Turret
Skill: Starship gunnery
Fire Control: 2D
Space Range: 1-3/12/25
Atmosphere Range: 100-300/1.2/2.5 km
Damage: 4D

Akari · Commander Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 256

At the start I would make sure to give them an old, very run-down ship that is in constant need of repairs and jury-rigging. It generally gives players a sense of accomplishment when they can dump it and get a new one at some point in the campaign, though they might develop a certain sympathy for the little quirks of their old clunker... ^_^

Ideas include (but are by no means limited to):

- Cables running on the ground or hanging down from the ceiling
- Hopelessly overstrained mouse droid trying to keep the ship operational
- Unevenly distributed power output from the engines (requiring constant countersteering)
- wacky artificial gravity generators
- computers requiring kicks
- springs showing up from the pilot chair
- lighting going off and on

All of which get really fun when your ship gets boarded and pirates (or Stormtroopers, or whoever) trip over cables and mouse droids, get pulled to the ground by the gravity generators, etc., while your characters already know all the quirks and have a superb home advantage... =)

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wolfe · Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 3:08 am Post subject:

Here is a FYI note:
The Kazellis in Stock Ships (as Raven posted) has differing stats then the one presented in Pirates and Privateers, there are quite a few vessels in these two books that don't match stats.

adamlumina93 · Lieutenant Joined: 07 Nov 2005 Posts: 87

This is going to be the groups second ship, their first one only lasted 3 gaming sessions. They got caught being poor smugglers and a dirty imperial officer asked to meet them out in empty space. He offered to let them off the hook if they paid him. He was in a lambda shuttle and also had a blastboat as a body guard. The players attacked him, the shuttle escaped but they did do a number to the blastboat with a hell of a shot from a 4d ion cannon and some concussion missles. They could not destroy the blastboat and it also scored a good hit on them damaging the hyperdrive. Instead of doing repairs on sight, fearing backup would arrive, they did a hyperspace jump with the damaged drive and failed miserably, they were already out of character points, they rolled the random 2d and ending up hitting an object that destroyed their ghtroc, they are currently awaiting rescue in escape pods.
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garhkal · Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 5:44 pm Post subject:

How did they get into escape pods while in hyperspace?
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cheshire · Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:08 pm Post subject:

I think that when you hit an object, it's kind like like cruising along a freeway and accidentally throwing your car into first instead of fifth. You're not really on the highway after you pull that stunt.

I'm guessing the ship is out of hyperspace as it's having its critical failures all over the place and you've got a little bit of time to get to the pods.
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adamlumina93 · Lieutenant Joined: 07 Nov 2005 Posts: 87

that is correct, per the rules the ship drops back to real space and then they get so many rounds to get into survival gear and escape
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Doomhead · Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:50 pm Post subject:

I've always been partial to the Lantillian Short Hauler, ever since the Long Shot Campaign in WEG40004 Capaign Pack!!!

Craft: Lantillian ShipWrights GXI Short Hauler
Type: Pleasurecraft
Scale: Starfighter
Length: 27.0 meters
Skill: (S) Space Transports: Lantillian Short Hauler
Crew: 4; skeleton 2/ +5
Passengers: 6
Cargo Capacity: 85 metric tons
Consumables: 1 month
Nav Computer: Yes
Hyperdrive: x2
Hyperdrive Backup: x12
Space: 4
Atmosphere: 280; 800 kmh
Maneuver: 1D
Hull: 4D
Shields: 1D
Cost: 20,500 (used only)
Source: Stock Ships p.5-7
Sensors:
Passive: 10 / 0D
Scan: 25 / 1D
Search: 40 / 2D
Focus: 2 / 2D
Weapons:
Type: Laser Cannon
Fire Arc: Turret
Crew: 1 (can be fired by pilot or co-pilot, +5 to difficulty)
Skill: Starship Gunnery
Control: 1D
Space: 1-3 / 12 / 25
Atmosphere Range: 100-300m / 1.2km / 2.5km
Damage: 3D
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Raven Redstar · Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 7:16 pm Post subject:

wolfe · Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:33 pm Post subject:

Have you looked at the stats of the Stalwart class in Pirates and Privateers?
Its small, some passenger space, quite a bit of cargo, and cheap.

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