Ship Equipment

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

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

Description (Specifications)

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

1. Intrinsic Items (Hull & Structure)

1. Airlock
2. Bulkhead Wall AKA Bulkhead
3. Cargo Hold
   1. Cargo Container
   2. Modular Cargo Container
4. Fuel Scoop
5. Hardpoint AKA Ship's Hardpoint
6. Hatchway
7. Hull
8. Interior Wall
9. Iris Valve
10. Landing Gear
11. Lift Shaft
12. Maintenance Hatch
13. Manual Hatch
14. Refrigerated Hold
15. Secret Cargo Hold
16. Sliding Door
17. Standard Door
18. Viewport

2. Machinery (Power & Propulsion)

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

3. Control & Electronics (Bridge & Electronics)

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

4. Armament & Defenses (Offense & Protection)

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

5. Fixtures & Fittings (Special Equipment)

1. Cabin
2. Common Room
3. Emergency Locker
4. Fresher
5. Galley
6. Grav Plate
7. Head
8. Hydroponics
9. Inertial Compensator
10. Lab Space
11. Life Support
12. Low Berth AKA Cryo Capsule (Cold Sleep)
13. Mail Vault
14. Ordinance Locker
15. Secure Locker
16. Ship Furnishing
17. Ship's Locker
18. Ship's Magazine
19. Sick Bay
20. Spin Habitat
21. Stateroom

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

1. Drop Troop Pod Launcher
   1. Drop Capsule
      1. Drop Trooper
2. Hanger
   1. Subcraft
3. Launch Tube
   1. Smallcraft
      1. Fighter
4. Vehicle Bay
   1. Ship's Vehicle

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.

Worlds can have widely varying technology. A high-tech world with contragravity and fusion power may exist just parsecs from one relying upon steam power - or stone axes. There is no "prime directive" to prevent the sale of high technology to the savages - but what would they pay with? So Charted Space is a mix of industrial worlds and hardly-explored backwaters. Pg. 15 t20.

In such a tableau, ship equipment can be highly variable. A tramp freighter captain may be forced to repair a TL-15 Ship's Computer with TL-6 vacuum tubes or worse! Finicky jump drives designed at TL-11 might break down and be forced to be repaired with TL-14 components that are both higher tech and designed for an entirely different technological base. In this manner, the ships and technology of Charted Space eventually grow into a melange of cobbled together technologies and scientific approaches to sophontic advancement. A good ship's engineer and engine helmsman is worth their weight in gold... or lanthanum!

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