Mongoose Traveller: Space Stations

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Space Stations
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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
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