Ship Equipment

Ship Equipment is a generic term describing structures, devices and equipment associated with spaceships, starships, big craft, and smallcraft.

• They are also known as Starship Components, Parts, and by other terms.
• While their primary use is for void vessels, they can also be used in vehicles, and fixed facilities among other uses.

Description (Specifications)

Ship Equipment has been divided into a number of sections to facilitate ease of use:

Intrinsic Items (Hull & Structure)

1. Airlock
2. Bulkhead Wall
3. Cargo Hold
4. Fuel Scoop
5. Hull
6. Iris Valve
7. Landing Gear

Machinery (Power & Propulsion)

1. Alternative FTL Drive
2. Fuel Treatment Plant
3. Jump Drive
   1. Lanthanum
   2. Zuchai Crystal
4. Jump Governor
5. Maneuver Drive
6. Power Plant
7. Ship Fuel
8. Ship Hull Grid

Control & Electronics (Bridge & Electronics)

1. Acceleration Couch
2. Astronics
3. Avionics
4. CommCaster
5. Communications Equipment
6. Computer
   1. Control Console
   2. Control Panel
   3. Fire Control Computer
   4. Ship’s Computer
7. ECCM
8. ECM
9. Electronics
10. Fresher
11. Ship Bridge
12. Ship Sensor Suite
13. Ship Transponder
14. Workstation

Fixtures & Fittings (Special Equipment)

1. Emergency Locker
2. Grav Plate
3. Hydroponics
4. Inertial Compensator
5. Life Support
6. Low Berth (Cold Sleep)
7. Mail Vault
8. Ordinance Locker
9. Ship's Locker
10. Spin Habitat
11. Stateroom

Armament & Defenses (Offense & Protection)

1. Bays
2. Screens and defenses
   1. Black Globe Generator
   2. EMM (Hull Masking)
   3. Meson Screen
   4. Nuclear Damper
   5. Repulsor
   6. Sandcaster
3. Ship's Hardpoint
4. Ship's Turret
5. Spinal Weapons Mount
6. Weapons
   1. Fusion Gun
   2. Lasers
      1. Beam Laser
      2. Pulse Laser
   3. Meson Gun
   4. Missile
   5. Particle Accelerator
   6. Plasma Gun

Subcraft (Smallcraft, Bigcraft, Ship's Vehicles, etc.)

1. Drop Capsules
2. Hangers
3. Launch Tubes

History & Background (Dossier)

Vessel equipment has changed greatly over the years and it's a remarkable testament to Charted Space that many different kinds of equipment at many different tech levels is still widely used and serviced throughout inhabited space.

Ship's Mascots & Pets

A number of creatures have become popular with crew as ship's mascots or pets:

• Ship's Cats (specially bred species: vermin control, mascot)

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.

• Classic Traveller, Book 2 Starships (Game Designers Workshop 1977, 1981)
• Classic Traveller, Book 5 High Guard (Game Designers Workshop 1980)
• MegaTraveller, Referee's Manual (Game Designers Workshop 1987)
• MegaTraveller Journal 04
• Traveller The New Era, Fire, Fusion, & Steel (Game Designers Workshop 1994)
• Marc Miller's Traveller, Fire, Fusion & Steel (Imperium Games 1987)
• Mongoose Traveller: High Guard (Mongoose Publishing 2008)
• New Traveller: High Guard (Mongoose Publishing 2016)
• T5 Core Rules, Far Future Enterprises 2013
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science