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.
• Such equipment is typically fitted into the Engineering Compartment or the Main Compartment of a vessel.
• While their primary use is for void vessels, they can also be used in many vehicles, and fixed facilities among other uses.
• Please also see the AAB Library Data article for Deck Plan.

Library Data Referral Tree

Please see the following AAB Library Data articles for more information:
Manufacturing Technology of Charted Space - Ship Design:

Naval ship construction

§ == ( Please refer to the following AAB Library Data for more information: ) == §

• Services
  • Imperial Ship Builders Association (ISBA)
  • Naval Architect
  • Starport Authority (SPA)
  • Trader's Guild
  • Travellers' Naval Architecture Society (TNAS)
• Design description
  • Imperial Standard Catalog Number (ISCN)
  • Quick Ship Profile (QSP)
  • Standard Equipment Identification (SEI)
  • Universal Ship Profile (USP)
• Design process
  • Quick Ship Design System (QSDS)
  • Standard Ship Design System (SSDS)
• Design Elements
  • CBPUSAL (Hull)
  • Deck Plan
  • Naval Architecture
  • Ship Equipment
  • Ship's Papers
  • Ship Registry
  • Shipyard
  • Starship Engineering Package (SEP)
  • Universal Manufacturing Template (UMT)

Description (Specifications)

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

1. Intrinsic Items (Hull & Structure)

Interior Details: The specific interior fittings for ships are fairly standardized, and are shown on the deck plan symbols chart and on many of the individual ship plans as well:
Engineering Compartment & Main Compartment:

1. Access Plate
2. Airlock
3. Armored Cargo Hold
4. Bulkhead Wall AKA Bulkhead
5. Cargo Hold
   1. Capture Tank
   2. Cargo Container
   3. Modular Cargo Container
   4. Collapsible Fuel Tank
6. Elevator Shaft AKA Elevator
7. Escalator
8. Fuel Scoop
9. Grav Lift
10. Hardpoint AKA Ship's Hardpoint
11. Hatchway AKA Hatch
12. Hull
13. Interior Wall
14. Iris Valve
15. Ladder
16. Landing Gear
17. Lift Shaft AKA Elevator Shaft
18. Machinery
19. Maintenance Hatch
20. Manual Hatch
21. Refrigerated Hold
22. Secret Cargo Hold
23. Ship Environmental Control (Ship Life Support)
24. Sliding Door
25. Stairs
    1. Spiral Stairs
26. Standard Door
27. Viewport
28. Waste Space

2. Machinery (Power & Propulsion)

Engineering Compartment:

1. Acceleration Compensator
2. Acceleration Couch
3. Alternative FTL Drive
4. Collapsible Tank
5. Collectors
6. Drive
7. Drop Tank
8. Electronics Repair Shop
9. Engineering Compartment AKA Engine Room
10. External Fuel Probe
11. Fuel Treatment Plant
12. Fuel Tank
13. Hull Grid (Jump Grid)
14. Jump Drive
    1. Lanthanum
    2. Zuchai Crystal
15. Jump Governor
16. Machinery
17. Machine Shop
18. Maneuver Drive
19. Power Capacitor
20. Power Plant
21. Ship Fuel
22. Solar Panels

3. Control & Electronics (Bridge & Electronics)

Main Compartment:

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. Electronic Warfare Device
11. Electronics
12. Engineering Section
13. Flight Recorder
14. Machinery
15. Ship Bridge
16. Ship Sensor Suite
17. Ship Transponder
18. Smallcraft Bridge
    1. Smallcraft Bridge Add-On
19. Workstation
    1. Weapon Workstation

4. Armament & Defenses (Offense & Protection)

Defensive Systems

Main Compartment- Naval Weaponry:
Screens & Defenses:

1. Heavy Armor (Hull Armor)
2. Damper Series
   1. Electrostatic Screen
   2. Meson Screen
   3. Nuclear Damper
   4. Proton Screen
3. EMM (Hull Masking or Stealthing)
4. Force Field Generator ("Globe Series")
   1. Black Globe Generator
      1. Alpha class Black Globe Generator
      2. Beta class Black Globe Generator
      3. Gamma class Black Globe Generator
   2. Silver Globe Generator
   3. Stasis Globe Generator
   4. White Globe Generator
5. Glacial Camouflage Generator
6. Gravitic Shielding
7. Point Defense Weapon System
   1. Anti-Missile Missile (GUW)
   2. Direct fire energy systems (DEW)
   3. Direct fire projectile systems (KEW)
8. Repulsor
9. Sandcaster
10. Scrambler Series
    1. Electronic Scrambler
    2. Gravitic Scrambler
    3. Magnetic Scrambler
11. Tractor/Pressor

Equipment Mounts

Main Compartment- Naval Weaponry:

1. Bolt-In Mount
2. Barbettes
   1. Single (3 ton)
   2. Dual (5 ton)
3. Battery AKA Weapon Battery
4. Bays
   1. Small (50 ton)
   2. Large (100 ton)
   3. Main (200 ton)
5. Casemate (Fixed Mount)
6. Deployable Mount
7. Extendable Mount
8. Firmpoint
9. Ship's Hardpoint
10. Ship's Turret
    1. Single (1 ton)
    2. Dual (1 ton)
    3. Triple (1 ton)
    4. Quad (1 ton)
11. Spinal Weapons Mount AKA Spinal Mounts
12. Surface Mount

Offensive Systems

Main Compartment- Naval Weaponry:

1. Naval Weapons
   1. Data Caster
   2. Disintegrator
   3. Disruptor
   4. Fusion Gun
   5. Inducer (aka "Jump Inducer")
   6. Jump Damper
   7. Jump Projector
   8. Lasers
      1. Beam Laser & Heavy Beam Laser
      2. Mining Laser
      3. Pulse Laser & Heavy Pulse Laser
   9. Meson Gun
   10. Missile (Conventional / Kinetic Kill / Nuclear / Antimatter)
       1. AM Missile
       2. Jump Breaker Missile
       3. KK Missile
       4. Salvo Rack
       5. Torpedo (Heavy Missile)
   11. Particle Accelerator
   12. Plasma Gun
   13. Rail Gun
   14. Slug Thrower
   15. Stasis Projector
   16. Tractor/Pressor

5. Fixtures & Fittings (Special Equipment)

Interior Fittings: The deck plans show various furnishings and fittings which appear within the ship:
Main Compartment:

1. Bunk (Stateroom)
2. Cabin (Stateroom)
3. Capture Tank
4. Common Room (Crew Commons)
5. Damage Control Equipment
6. Detention Cell
7. Emergency Locker
8. Environmental Control
9. Environmental Tank
10. Fresher
11. Galley
12. Grapple Arm
13. Grav Plate
14. Head
15. Holding Tank
16. Hydroponics
17. Inertial Compensator
18. Lab Space
19. Life Support
20. Low Berth Rack AKA Cryo Capsule (Cold Sleep)
21. Machinery
22. Mail Drum
23. Mail Vault
24. Medical Bay
25. Mess
26. Mining Laser
27. Null Grav Module AKA Grav Module
28. Ordinance Locker
29. Passenger Couch
30. Robotic Arm AKA Teleoperated Handling Manipulator
31. Secure Locker
32. Ship Barracks
33. Ship Environmental Control
34. Ship Furnishing
35. Ship's Locker
36. Ship's Magazine
    1. Armored Magazine
37. Ship Meeting Room (Hall, Bar, or Conference Room)
38. Ship Module
39. Ship Stage
40. Ship Swimming Pool
41. Ship Theater
42. Sick Bay
43. Smallcraft Stateroom
44. Spin Habitat
45. Stateroom
46. Stealth Hull

NOTE: This category includes specialized rooms or quarters.

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

Main Compartment:

1. Drop Troop Pod Launcher
   1. Drop Capsule
      1. Drop Trooper
2. External Cradle
   1. Subcraft
      1. Variety of subcraft including: Fighters, Shuttles, Cutters, Bigcraft, etc.
3. Hangar
   1. Subcraft
      1. Variety of subcraft including: Fighters, Shuttles, Cutters, Bigcraft, etc.
4. Launch Tube
   1. Subcraft AKA Smallcraft
      1. Fighter, Shuttle, etc.
5. Vehicle Bay
   1. Ship's Vehicle
      1. Variety of vehicles including: ATV, Air/raft, etc.

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.

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 or 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:

• Beaked Monkey
• Focaline Tree Rat
• Lowalaa
• Screech (Chicacenmiztli)
• Seedspitter
• Terran Ship's Cat (specially bred species: vermin control, mascot)
• Zh'a Cha'a

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)
• Marc Miller, Frank Chadwick, John Harshman. High Guard (Game Designers Workshop, 1980), TBD. (Classic Traveller Book 5)
• Marc Miller. Referee's Manual (Game Designers Workshop, 1987), TBD.
• Joe Fugate. "Custom Ship Add-Ons, Useful Extras for Traveller Starships." MegaTraveller Journal 4 (1993): 78.
• Frank Chadwick, Dave Nilsen. Fire, Fusion, & Steel (Game Designers Workshop, 1994), TBD.
• David Golden, Guy Garnett. Fire, Fusion & Steel (Imperium Games, 1997), TBD.
• Gareth Hanrahan, Dom Mooney. High Guard (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), TBD.
• Marc Miller. T5 Core Rules (Far Future Enterprises, 2013), TBD.
• Citation Missing - High Guard
• 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