LUNE CLASS FREELANCER

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1 LUNE CLASS FREELANCER Contents Writing - Eric Lyon-Taylor & Ian Stead Art and layout - Ian Stead Character Art - Bradley Warnes Proof Reading - Michael Johnson 1. The Ship 2 2. Introduction 2 3. Notable Ships of the class 3 4. Crew & Passengers 6 5. Specifications 6 6. A Tour of the ship 7 7. Example ship/crew Game specifications and 16 deck plans 9. Gillow Class Launch Lune Variants New Equipment Play sheets 34 Thanks for the inspiration Peter Elson, Chris Foss and many others The River Lune runs through the city of Lancaster. Requires the use of the Traveller(TM) Main Rulebook, available from Mongoose Publishing. Traveller and the Foreven logo are Trademarks owned by Far Future Enterprises, Inc. and are used with permission. Traveller and the Foreven logo are Trademarks owned by Far Future Enterprises, Inc. and are used according to the terms of the Foreven Free Sector Logo Licence version 1.0. A copy of this licence can be obtained from Mongoose Publishing. The mention or reference to any company or product in these pages is not a challenge to the trademark or copyright concerned. Ship Book: Lune Class Freelancer 2014 Moon Toad Publishing. All rights reserved. Reproduction of this work by any means without the written permission of the publisher is expressly forbidden. All signifi cant characters, names, places,items, art and text herein are copyrighted by Moon Toad Publishing. 1

2 Introduction. It s been said that starships are the lifeblood of the Traveller Universe. This small book details the Lune Class Freelancer, one of the many thousands of vessels in use throughout known space. The Lune is intended to be used either as a player s vessel, as part of an encounter or as part of an adventure in itself. Although set in the Third Imperium, with little effort it should fit in any other setting. The Ship The Lune is a multirole ship designed with small groups in mind such as freelancers, agents and adventurers. With decent armour, weapons and engines, she can fulfil a number of roles. Its Jump 3 engines are ideal for long distant runs across sparse sectors of space. The streamlined hull means she can land planet sideand fuel from oceans orby skimming gas giants. A launch and air/raft are carried also, ideal for runabouts, shuttling from planet to surface etc. Although not hugely effective as a cargo carrier, it has room for 26 tons of cargo (20 in the cargo bay and 6 in the launch) and could be employed as a protected cargo vessel or courier for small loads requiring extra protection. The ship is decorated throughout in starship chic, which is to say that everything is brushed steel or aluminium with stencilled latters and recessed lights and doors. Rubber strips run down the center of each corridor to provide traction leaving 5cm along each edge for the LED lighting. LEDs are used in emergencies to show the quickest route to the nearest emergency exit. 2

3 Notable Ships of the Class 8 Ball A casino ship that travels the trade lanes of the Spinward Marches specialising in smaller stations and colonies that don t have any other similar establishment.. This is a standard Lune, but with the cargo bays converted to casino use. Dagger A ship with both cargo holds converted to barracks space and equipment space to carry 10 troops for behind the lines insertion by the mercenary unit Khan s Wrath. Dagger is a A variant Lune. 3

4 Narishha Set up as above but tfor 10troopers and dis used dby the 1 st squad of the Archduke Norris Own Marine Commando Unit. The Shark Originally the Lune Koi when it was captured by pirates and then converted to the current layout they changed the IFF signal to Lune Shark. The lower cargo hold now has a breaching Airlock which attaches to another ship a then cuts its way in. The Shark is a standard Lune, but with the addition of a breaching airlock on the lower deck. 4

5 Gold Lune Run in its original configuration by the Villani Merchant Prince Jo Lase as his personal ship, even though he owns a fleet of vessels. He is very fond of the ship as it was the one that made him his first MegaCredit. Gold Lune is an M variant Lune. Kaanruu A vessel commissioned for the scout service and still in use by them to this day. The lower cargo hold is smaller with 3 labs for geology, chemistry and biology and some extra supply space taken out of the middle cargo hold. This is a custom variant of the standard Lune. 5

6 Crew & Passengers. Designed for a crew of 6 (captain/pilot, co-pilot/navigator, medic and 3 engineers/gunners) most ships run with multirole crews, with each member performing more than one role. Normally the Lune would not carry passengers, though if passengers are carried the crew could double bunk, allowing up to 3 Mid Passage passengers to be carried dependant on the level of the ship s crew. Specifications Dimensions Displacement: 300 tons Length: 33m Width (main body): 10.5m Wingspan: 46.5m Height: 9m Performance Acceleration: 4G/s Endurance: 1 month Jump: 3 parsecs Engineering Manoeuvre Drive: Regina Industries F Jump Drive: Lyon Industries E Class MMK III Power Plant: Elson Industries F Class Defences/Weapons Hull/Armour: C Class Streamlined/C4 Class Reizhaa M CI Plate Hardpoints: 3 1x GT Hybrid Triple Mount Turret with 2 Hundai A Missile racks and 1 DRI A Sandcaster 2x Mandor MK1 Double Mount Turret with 2 GammaTech Industries Double Beam Lasers 6

7 Electronics Computer: Hexon 1 bis master ships computer Sensors: Panatechnica EMS Surface ships sensor Radiocabin Surface Communicator Panatechnica Modified Surface Neutrino Detector Access/Exit Points Starboard and Port Airlocks Forward Air/Raft Bay Starboard and Port Cargo Bay Doors Emergency hatches Dorsal and Ventral Landing gear hatches A Tour of the ship Deck One Bridge/Upper Engineering This deck contains the sensor arrays, bridge, main airlocks, magazines, med bay, ships lockers and workshop and upper engineering. The bridge is of typical size for the 3 crew positions here, Pilot, Navigator/Sensors and Comms/Weapons. The Bridge has an emergency hatch in the ceiling and Iris Valve to the living quarter s corridor in the floor. In an emergency it is possible to reach the sensors through a panel in the console in front of the pilot s chair. The crawl space is tight but allows someone to gain physical access to the sensors for repairs or on the spot recalibrations. Typical Locker Contents: WEAPONS 6x Flak Jackets 6x Blades 1x Stun Stick 1x Incinerator Unit 2x Shotguns 4x Autopistols 2x Hand Computers EMERGENCY KIT 1x Portable Generator 6x Vacc Suits 4x Hull Seal Kits 1x Repair Kit 6x Survival Bubbles 6x EVA cables with attachments Leaving the bridge via the iris valve we enter a corridor leading past the computer room on the right and the Ship s locker on the left. Also access to the dorsal turret is in the ceiling though its operation is usually controlled from the bridge. Continuing past these rooms we go through another iris valve onto a cross corridor the full width of the ship with access to the magazines and main airlocks at either end. Before each airlock, is a small area for the donning of vacc suits and the storage of equipment regularly used off ship. If we continue straight ahead though, we come to the workshop on the left and sick bay on the right. The workshop is a fully kitted out room for the repair, maintenance and modification of gear and ship board machinery/equipment. The med bay is well equipped and stocked with facilities for routine treatment and emergency surgery. The med bay could easily handle a couple of outpatients at a time. Moving through the Iris valve at the end we come onto another corridor that spans the ship and with access to corridors going back towards the mid-section and above to the Ship s 7

8 subcraft hangar. Going through the Iris valve directly in front of us we enter the upper engineering room, which is very spacious with a generous work console for the engineer of the ship. Access to the actual machinery is through either of the Iris valves in the room. The engineering room contains the fuel processors and the power plant and jump drives. Deck Two Living area/cargo & Subcraft Hangar Starting in the common room at the front, which is spacious and comfortable which helps to alleviate the stress from long periods of travel in Jump space where very little is needed to be done on board. Attached to this room is a small galley and another room usually fitted as a ship s office and a small fresher for the common room. It also doubles as a private space for the crew or another recreation area, there s a small console on the table allowing access to the ships computer. Heading through the iris valve out into the living quarters corridor we have the doors to 6 staterooms for the crew, each of which contains a bunk, locker, table (with console, chair and additional space for stowing gear. Iris valves in the ceiling and floor allow access to the deck below and above. Heading out of this corridor puts us in the central area of the ship with access out to the wing mounted turrets and manoeuvre drive pods and the main cargo hold. Each turret has a manual fire control station; normally the turrets would be controlled from the bridge. Access to the fuel tanks which make up the majority of the wings can be made from this central corridor. At the very rear of the deck is the machinery connecting the engineering sections on deck one and two. The cargo bay itself is over two decks and if required the floor of the bay on this deck can be removed to connect both bays into one larger bay. The central area is separated from the subcraft hanger by more iris valves. The subcraft itself, is usually a 20 ton launch which fits snugly in the hangar. There are three iris valves that allow access to the launch, one aft, one portside and one starboard of the launch. Unusually the launch docks aft end first, this is so the internal cargo bay of the launch is near the cargo bay of the ship, allowing cargo to be transferred to and from the ship and launch easily. 8

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10 Deck Three Air/Raft Bay & Lower Engineering This deck is very simple; we have the air/raft bay in the bow with a corridor that bisects more fuel tanks until it reaches the lower cargo hold in the centre. At the stern is the lower engineering room containing the rest of the jump drive and power plant machinery. Unlike the engineering section on deck one, there is no control station here, just access to the drives should anything need maintenance or repair. Throughout the ship there are floor mounted access hatches to the landing gear, they also double as escape hatches. 10

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