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.

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:

1. Airlock
2. Bulkhead Wall AKA Bulkhead
3. Cargo Hold
   1. Cargo Container
   2. Modular Cargo Container
   3. Collapsible Fuel Tank
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 AKA Elevator Shaft
12. Maintenance Hatch
13. Manual Hatch
14. Refrigerated Hold
15. Secret Cargo Hold
16. Ship Environmental Control (Ship Life Support)
17. Sliding Door
18. Standard Door
19. 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. Engineering Section
12. Ship Bridge
13. Ship Sensor Suite
14. Ship Transponder
15. Workstation
    1. Weapon Workstation

4. Armament & Defenses (Offense & Protection)

Defensive Systems

1. Screens & Defenses
   1. Damper Series
      1. Meson Screen
      2. Nuclear Damper
      3. Proton Screen
   2. EMM (Hull Masking)
   3. 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
   4. Glacial Camouflage Generator
   5. Repulsor
   6. Sandcaster
   7. Scrambler Series
      1. Electronic Scrambler
      2. Gravitic Scrambler
      3. Magnetic Scrambler
   8. 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. Common Room
2. Emergency Locker
3. Fresher
4. Galley
5. Grav Plate
6. Head
7. Hydroponics
8. Inertial Compensator
9. Lab Space
10. Life Support
11. Low Berth Rack AKA Cryo Capsule (Cold Sleep)
12. Mail Vault
13. Mess
14. Ordinance Locker
15. Secure Locker
16. Ship Environmental Control
17. Ship Furnishing
18. Ship's Locker
19. Ship's Magazine
20. Ship Module
21. Sick Bay
22. Spin Habitat
23. Stateroom

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

1. Drop Troop Pod Launcher
   1. Drop Capsule
      1. Drop Trooper
2. Hangar
   1. Subcraft
      1. Variety of subcraft including: Fighters, Shuttles, Cutters, Bigcraft, etc.
3. Launch Tube
   1. Smallcraft
      1. Fighter, Shuttle, etc.
4. 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
• 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. MegaTraveller Journal 4 (Digest Group Publications, 1993), TBD.
• 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