Hull

The Hull is the main body of a ship or other vessel.

• It contains the frame, skeleton, and structure.
• It is a kind of Ship Equipment.

Description / Specifications

Physical Structure

• Airlocks
• Bulkhead Walls
• Hardpoints
• Internal compartments
• Landing Gear
• Surface finish (color scheme), markings and logos
• Tonnage (Tons of displacement, equivalent to 1 Ton of liquid hydrogen).
  • Dimensions and Volume.
  • Pods (less than 100 Tons displacement)
  • Subhulls (100 Tons displacement or more)

Configuration

• Box
• Close Structure
  • Braced Cluster (consisting of linked subhulls and pods)
• Cone
• Cylinder
• Dispersed Structure / Irregular Structure
  • Cluster (consisting of linked subhulls and pods)
• Flattened Sphere
  • Disk / Saucer
• Needle
• Open Frame
• Planetoid
  • Buffered Planetoid
• Sphere
• Wedge

Streamlining

• Airframe
  • Wings and Fins
• Lifting Body
• Streamlined / Partially streamlined
• Unstreamlined

A hull may be equipped for wilderness refuelling

• Fuel Scoops

Hull Materials / Hull Armor

• Primary structural material
  • Iron (TL-3)
  • Steel (TL-4)
  • Hard Steel (TL-5)
  • Light Alloys (TL-6)
  • Titanium Alloy (TL-6)
  • Composite Laminate (TL-7)
  • Lightweight Composite Laminate (TL-9)
  • Crystaliron (TL-10)
  • Superdense (TL-12)
  • Bonded Superdense (TL-14)
  • Coherent Superdense (TL-17)
  • Organic
• Armor
  • Compartmentalization
  • Electrostatic armor
  • Hull plating
  • Inherent armor (planetoid hulls)
  • Reactive armor
  • Structural bracing

History & Background / Dossier

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References & Contributors / Sources

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• Classic Traveller, Book 2 Starships (Game Designers Workshop 1977, 1981)
• Classic Traveller, Book 5 High Guard (Game Designers Workshop 1980)
• MegaTraveller Referee's Manual, (Game Designers Workshop 1987)
• Traveller The New Era: Fire, Fusion, & Steel, (Game Designers Workshop 1994)
• T5 Core Rules, Far Future Enterprises 2013
• 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