Mongoose Traveller: Space Stations

Space Stations
Supplement 14
Author		Barnes Thomas
Publisher		Mongoose Publishing
Version		Mongoose Traveller
Edition		1st
Format		Book (PDF)
Language		English
Pages		97
Year Published		2014
Canonical		Yes
Available from		DriveThru RPG, Mongoose
ISBN		978-1-908460-14-1

Mongoose Traveller: Space Stations is a Mongoose Publishing supplement for Mongoose Traveller.

Smaller than planets, often larger than capital ships, space stations are a key part of any system’s military, economic and social construct. Indeed, in some systems the majority of the local population may be housed on stations with only a few making their lives on planets and moons in the area. Either way, stations are almost universally present in any system able to build them.

The core of this book is focused on the design and construction of space stations. New power-plants and grav drives provide the much less intensive needs of a space station, while new hull forms allow for cheaper structures to be built without the anti-gravity plating normally mounted within every ship. Facilities enable space stations to take part in local, inter-planetary and interstellar production and trade, to become population centres, install shopping districts and construct their own starships for sale or personal use.

Further chapters give more detail to station facilities and how they function, as well as offering new docking options for larger spacecraft and even capital ships. Stations can be the home ports of entire fleets, and without sufficient docking and recreation space, a fleet will soon fall apart.

This book covers a wide variety of types of station, and also the running of a station, involving building, staffing and setting up the imports that will be its life blood. You will read about the continued running of a station and the end result; profits. Finally, you will discover adventure hooks, setting suggestions and example stations to populate your Traveller universe with.

Credits

Author

Barnes Thomas

Editor

Matthew Sprange

Layout

Will Chapman

Interior Illustrations

Sandrine Thirache, Patricia Diaconeasa, Sara Forlenza, Nuno Nobre, Carlos Nunez de Castro Torres

Special Thanks

Andrew James Alan Welty

Table of Contents

Mongoose Traveller: Space Stations
Section	Page/s
Introduction	2
Space station design	3
Station Equipment	8
Combat and operations	13
Space station generation	18
Maintaining trade	24
Docks and yards	29
Agave	35
Space Stations	44

Library Data Entries (Public)

1. Shipyard
2. Space Station
3. Thebes (world)

Library Data Entries (Automated)

Library data entries
Space Station

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 Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Barnes Thomas. Space Stations (Mongoose Publishing, 2014), 2.