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.
• Please also see the AAB Library Data article for Deck Plan.

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Please see the following AAB Library Data articles for more information:
Ship Design:

• Naval Construction
  • CBPUSAL (Hull)
  • Imperial Ship Builders Association (ISBA)
  • Naval Architect AKA Shipwright
  • Quick Ship Design System (QSDS)
  • Quick Ship Profile (QSP)
  • Ship Equipment
  • Ship Registry
  • Ship's Papers
  • Shipyard
  • Standard Ship Design System (SSDS)
  • Starport Authority (SPA)
  • Trader's Guild
  • Travellers' Naval Architecture Society (TNAS)
  • Universal Ship Profile (USP)

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

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 Plant
20. Ship Fuel
21. 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 Add-On
19. Workstation
    1. Weapon Workstation

4. Armament & Defenses (Offense & Protection)

Defensive Systems

Screens & Defenses:

1. Heavy Armor (Ship 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

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. Ship's Hardpoint
9. Ship's Turret
   1. Single (1 ton)
   2. Dual (1 ton)
   3. Triple (1 ton)
   4. Quad (1 ton)
10. Spinal Weapons Mount AKA Spinal Mounts
11. Surface Mount

Offensive Systems

1. 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. KK Missile
       3. Salvo Rack
       4. 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:

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

NOTE: This category includes specialized rooms or quarters.

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

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. 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