[TML] Firefly, wait no it is a Subsidized Merchant ship.

[Tom B]

The Imperium is large. It has room for high tech ports with contra
grav berths, mid tech ports with heavy duty concrete or bedrock pads,
and cool water berths in lakes or canal systems. All of them may make
sense on one or other sort of world. Landing on thrusters on desert
may *create* a suitable pad (glassy as it may be and you may have to
lift out of it with a snap/crackle/tinkle).

I do like your idea about ships aimed primarily at water landing and
at the sorts of ways you'd load them and design them. Time for someone
like Freelance Traveller to host a ship design/deckplan event to get a
top loading water landing freighter (say something of 1000-5000 tons
range). See if we can get some interesting deck plans out of this
idea.

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Antony Farrell <skaran at bordernet.com.au> wrote:
> Since it appears that most Traveller ships will float. Land them in large
>  tanks of water or other fluid. This will evenly support the hulls and also
>  give Traveller starports an appearance different to starports from other
>  games.
>
>  It probably also means that vessels with a displacement of greater than say
>  1,000dt do not land except in emergencies. I suppose these could land in
>  actual "sea" type ports and tie up at piers. This would have an interesting
>  effect on merchant ships, hatches would end up on the upper surfaces for
>  example. Normal container loading techniques could be used or for bulk cargo
>  just poured into the open hatches on the top, like current bulk carriers.
>
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