Mail Vault

A Mail Vault is a kind of secure cargo hold specifically intended for the transport of X-mail.

• It is a kind of Ship Equipment.

Description (Specifications)

Mail Vaults take a variety of forms from lockable cabins on a starship ...to secure cargo containers to Mail Drums ...to old-fashioned giant metal safes, compete with complex mechanical locks.

Mail Vaults come in vastly different sizes from small hand vaults to large holds capable of taking cubic feet of mail carts. For some off reason, many mail systems still use pre-metric Terran metrics (...measurement systems).

History & Background (Dossier)

The sheer size of the Third Imperium means that ordinary communications must depend on ships travelling along the main trade routes, making Regina (Regina / Spinward Marches 1910) nearly four years out from the Imperial Core Sector.

The express boat (...abbreviated X-boat) system, established originally in 624 and expanded to cover the entire Imperium by 718, cuts this communication time by nearly 75 percent. Selected locations along major trade routes are established as sites for express stations, which are orbital facilities which service and refuel the X-boats on their communications runs. Often an express boat tender serves as the station.

The Xboat System was established by Empress Arbellatra in 624, and expanded to cover the entire Imperium by 718.

References & Contributors (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Marc Miller. Starships (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), TBD. (Classic Traveller Book 2)
• Steve Daniels, Jim McLean, Christopher Thrash. Far Trader (Steve Jackson Games, 1999), 64.
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science