Fighting Ships of the Shattered Imperium

Fighting Ships of the Shattered Imperium
Starships of the Rebellion
Author		Marc Miller
Publisher		Game Designers Workshop
Version		MegaTraveller
Edition		1st
Format		Book (Softback)
Language		English
Pages		96
Year Published		1990
Canonical		Yes
Available from		RPGNow
Also See		Military Ship
ISBN 1-55878-050-5 Stock #0218

Fighting Ships of the Shattered Imperium is a Game Designers Workshop product.

• It is a ship source book designed for MegaTraveller.

Description (Specifications)

The Imperial Navy never planned for the worst of all possible contingencies: a far-flung Rebellion that would shatter the empire into squabbling factions, each with its own portion of the Navy’s fighting strength. Now, Imperial ship fights Imperial ship as the Rebellion drives the entire Imperium into chaos.

Fighting Ships is a compendium of immense battleships and cruisers that served with the Imperial fleet and now serve with the fleets of the many factions of the Rebellion. Included in this book are standard statistical descriptions of 58 ships, with illustrations for 16 of the most interesting.

• Battleships and dreadnoughts from tech level 11 to 15. Examples include battle tender/rider systems for tech levels 14 and 15.
• Cruisers, including the standard cruisers from tech level 11 to 15, plus strike cruisers, missile cruisers, and the Jump-6 rift cruiser.
• Carriers, from the standard fleet carriers to the newest light carrier and pocket carrier.
• Escorts, from the ED-series escort destroyers to the escort fleet and escort missile ships that maneuver with the fleet.
• Auxiliaries, from the standard fleet tankers to the dromedary combination tanker and resupply ship, plus the rift tanker for operations in the Rifts.

Table of Contents

Fighting Ships of the Shattered Imperium
Section	Page/s
Fighting Ships	5
Battleships	10
Cruisers	40
Carriers	54
Escorts	66
Auxiliaries	82

Library Data Entries (Public)

1. Fleet
   1. BatRon
   2. CruRon
   3. ScoutRon
   4. TankRon
2. Imperial Navy
3. Privateer
4. Rift

Selected Ships

Auxiliaries

1. Auxiliary
   1. Fleet Tanker
      1. TF-11 class Fleet Tanker
      2. TF-12 class Fleet Tanker
      3. TF-13 class Fleet Tanker
      4. TF-14 class Fleet Tanker
   2. Resupply Vessel
      1. TM-11 class Missile Tanker
      2. TM-12 class Missile Tanker
   3. Rift Tanker
      1. TZ-15 class Rift Tanker
      2. ZN-15 class Experimental Tanker (Special Nonstandard)
   4. Transport Tanker
      1. TT-13 class Transport Tanker
      2. TT-14 class Transport Tanker
      3. TT-15 class Transport Tanker

Battleships

1. Battleship
   1. Battleship
      1. BB-11 class Battleship 300k
      2. BB-12 class Battleship 300k
      3. BB-13 class Battleship 300k
      4. BH-14 class Heavy Battleship 700k
      5. BH-15 class Heavy Battleship 700k
      6. BL-13 class Light Battleship 200k
      7. BL-14 class Light Battleship 200k
      8. BL-15 class Light Battleship 200k
      9. BM-15 class Missile Battleship 500k
      10. BS-15 class Strike Battleship 200k
      11. BZ-15 class Experimental Battleship 500k
   2. Battle Rider
      1. BT/R-14M class Battle Rider 30k
      2. BT/R-14P class Battle Rider 30k
      3. BT/R-15M class Battle Rider 30k
      4. BT/R-15P class Battle Rider 30k
      5. TB-15 class Battle Tanker 30k
   3. Dreadnought
      1. BI-13 class Dreadnought 700k
      2. BI-14 class Dreadnought 700k
      3. BI-15 class Dreadnought 700k

Carriers

1. Subcraft Carrier
   1. Battle Tender
      1. BT-14 class Battle Tender 700k
      2. BT-15 class Battle Tender 500k
   2. Carrier
      1. Fleet Carrier
         1. VF-11 class Fleet Carrier 100k
         2. VF-12 class Fleet Carrier 100k
      2. Light Carrier
         1. VL-15 class Light Carrier 10k
      3. Provincial Carrier
         1. VP-15 class Provincial Carrier 30k
      4. Strike Carrier
         1. VS-13 class Strike Carrier 100k
         2. VS-14 class Strike Carrier 100k
         3. VS-15 class Strike Carrier 100k
   3. Independent Refueling Tanker
      1. TV-11 class Independent Refueling Tanker 10k
      2. TV-12 class Independent Refueling Tanker 10k

Cruisers

1. Cruiser
   1. Cruiser
      1. CA-11 class Armored Cruiser 100k
      2. CA-12 class Armored Cruiser 100k
      3. CA-13 class Armored Cruiser 100k
      4. CA-14 class Armored Cruiser 100k
      5. CA-15 class Armored Cruiser 100k
      6. CH-14 class Heavy Cruiser 100k
      7. CH-15 class Heavy Cruiser 100k
   2. Missile Cruiser
      1. CM-12 class Missile Cruiser 100k
   3. Rift Cruiser
      1. CJ-15 class Rift Cruiser 100k (Imperial Cruiser)
   4. Strike Cruiser
      1. CS-15 class Strike Cruiser 100k

Escorts

1. Escort
   1. Destroyer Escort
      1. ED-11 class Escort Destroyer 10k
      2. ED-12 class Escort Destroyer 10k
      3. ED-13 class Escort Destroyer 10k
      4. ED-14 class Escort Destroyer 10k
      5. ED-15 class Escort Destroyer 20k
   2. Fleet Escort
      1. EF-12 class Escort Fleet 8k
      2. EF-13 class Escort Fleet 8k
   3. Missile Escort
      1. EM-13 class Escort Missile 5k
      2. EM-14 class Escort Missile 5k
      3. EM-15 class Escort Missile 5k
   4. Strike Escort
      1. ES-14 class Escort Strike TBD
      2. ES-15 class Escort Strike TBD

Selected Smallcraft

1. Fighter
   1. Strike Fighter
      1. FS-15 class Strike Fighter

Meta-history & Background (Dossier)

Fighting Ships of the Shattered Imperium is a compendium of 58 starships, initially designed for the Imperial Navy, now in use by the many factions of the Rebellion.

• It was apparently a product rushed to printing because it is full of typos and missing illustrations.
• The art is beautiful, bit no accompanying flavor text is associated with individual ship entries or the illustrations that about a quarter of them have.
• Many of the ships appear to have Type S scout vessels docked to their noses, but there is no explanation of why these images occur.
• Several images are previewed at the beginning of a chapter and then don't appear elsewhere.
• The Missile Tankers aren't explained at all, and appear to be regular tankers that replaced their normal loads with massed missile bays. No explanation.
• There is no explanation of the difference between an escort and a destroyer.
• One fighter appears and no others. Strange.
• The Dromedary mixed replenishment ship / tanker ship is barely explained.
• The tech charts are fascinating, but only get a paragraph or two each that barely explain what they mean.
• All in all, it's a very neat, but frustratingly ill conceived Traveller gaming book.

- Maksim-Smelchak (talk) 17:03, 16 September 2019 (EDT)

Credits (Primary Sources)

Credits (Primary Sources)
Credit	Authors & Contributors
Design	Marc Miller
Additional Design	Joe Fugate, HIWG
Graphic design	Radley Masinelli
Cover Art	Kevin Ellis
Interior Illustrations	Roger Raupp

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