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. Collapsible Fuel Tank
   4. Modular Cargo Container
   5. Refrigerated Hold
   6. Secret Cargo Hold
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. Ship Environmental Control (Ship Life Support)
22. Sliding Door
23. Stairs
    1. Spiral Stairs
24. Standard Door
25. Viewport
26. Waste Space

2. Machinery (Power & Propulsion)

Engineering Compartment:

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

3. Control & Electronics (Bridge & Electronics)

Main Compartment:

1. Astronics
2. Avionics
3. Bridge
   1. Flag Bridge
   2. Flying Bridge
   3. Ship Bridge
   4. Smallcraft Bridge
      1. Smallcraft Bridge Add-On
4. Command Chair
5. CommCaster
6. Communications Equipment
7. Computer
   1. Computer Control
   2. Control Console
   3. Control Panel
   4. Fire Control Computer
   5. Master Fire Director (MFD)
   6. Ship’s Computer
8. DataCaster
9. ECCM
10. ECM
11. Electronic Warfare Suite
12. Electronics
13. Engineering Section
14. Fire Control Computer
15. Flight Recorder
16. Machinery
17. Ship Sensor Suite
    1. LADAR
18. Ship Transponder
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. Gravitic Shielding
   3. Meson Screen
   4. Nuclear Damper
   5. 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. Point Defense Weapon System
   1. Anti-Missile Missile (GUW)
   2. Direct fire energy systems (DEW)
   3. Direct fire projectile systems (KEW)
7. Sandcaster
8. Scrambler Series
   1. Electronic Scrambler
   2. Gravitic Scrambler
   3. Magnetic Scrambler

Equipment Mounts

Main Compartment- Naval Weaponry:

1. Bolt-In Mount
2. Barbette
   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. Exotic Series - Graviton Weapons
   1. Pressor Beam Projector (Pressor)
   2. Repulsor Beam Projector (Repulsor)
   3. Tractor Beam Projector (Tractor)
2. Naval Weapons
   1. Data Caster
   2. Disintegrator
   3. Disruptor
   4. Fusion Gun
   5. Inducer (aka "Jump Inducer")
   6. Ion Cannon
   7. Jump Damper
   8. Jump Projector
   9. Lasers
      1. Beam Laser & Heavy Beam Laser
      2. Mining Laser
      3. Pulse Laser & Heavy Pulse Laser
   10. Maser Cannon
   11. Meson Gun
   12. Missile (Conventional / Kinetic Kill / Nuclear / Antimatter)
       1. AM Missile
       2. Jump Breaker Missile
       3. KK Missile
       4. Salvo Rack
       5. Torpedo (Heavy Missile)
   13. Particle Accelerator
   14. Plasma Gun
   15. Rail Gun AKA Mass Driver
   16. Slug Thrower
   17. Stasis Projector
   18. 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. Fusion Cutter
12. Galley
13. Grapple Arm
14. Grav Plate
15. Head
16. Holding Tank
17. Hydroponics
18. Inertial Compensator
19. Lab Space
20. Life Support
21. Life Support Carrier
22. Low Berth Rack AKA Cryo Capsule (Cold Sleep)
23. Machinery
24. Mail Drum
25. Mail Vault
26. Medical Bay
27. Mess
28. Mining Laser
29. Null Grav Module AKA Grav Module
30. Ordnance Locker
31. Passenger Couch
32. Robotic Arm AKA Teleoperated Handling Manipulator
33. Secure Locker
34. Ship Barracks
35. Ship Environmental Control
36. Ship Furnishing
37. Ship Galley
38. Ship's Locker
39. Ship's Magazine
    1. Armored Magazine
40. Ship Meeting Room (Hall, Bar, or Conference Room)
41. Ship Module
42. Ship Stage
43. Ship Swimming Pool
44. Ship Theater
45. Sick Bay
46. Smallcraft Stateroom
47. Spin Habitat
48. Stateroom
49. 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, Battle Riders, etc.
3. Hangar
   1. Subcraft
      1. Variety of subcraft including: Fighters, Shuttles, Cutters, Bigcraft, Battle Riders, etc.
4. Ordnance Launcher (Ordnance Locker)
   1. Ordnance
      1. Drone
      2. Probe
5. Launch Tube
   1. Subcraft AKA Smallcraft
      1. Fighter, Shuttle, etc.
6. Vehicle Bay AKA Vehicle Garage
   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.
• Matthew Sprange. High Guard (Mongoose Publishing, 2016), .
• 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