Is there a Janes Ships of the Terran Empire?

[Sir Ofeelya]

Or in fact any collection of ready made Hero System starships either as a product tha tis sold by HG or a web collection put together by gamers with more patience than me? While HS can build anything, I find making space ships with Heroes a pain in the airlock. Oh for the simplicity of High Guard.

 

cheers

 

Brian

[Beast]

Re: Is there a Janes Ships of the Terran Empire?

 

I have the new High Guard along with the New Traveller by Mongoose

there are plenty of options that out do the old traveller

 

I believe there are ship for the Terran Empire in the Ultiamte Vehicle book

 

I got the new Traveller just for building ships

I'm using as a guide for how much space is needed buy various systems

then converting the ships to Hero System

[Sir Ofeelya]

Re: Is there a Janes Ships of the Terran Empire?

 

Thanks - I was thinking of getting both those products at some stage.

 

GUPRS Traveller had a fan produced pdf book called 101 Starships which was totally awesome. I was kind of hoping someone had done something similar for Star Hero, for those of us who are terminally time-strapped.

[Beast]

Re: Is there a Janes Ships of the Terran Empire?

 

there are some starship designs in the SH forums you just need to search for them

[Starwolf]

Re: Is there a Janes Ships of the Terran Empire?

 

Hmm... this gives me an idea. I am going to compile a SH Starship synopsis/index.

[Lord Liaden]

Re: Is there a Janes Ships of the Terran Empire?

 

Can I assume that you have access to Hero Games's Terran Empire sourcebook, and would like more starships than are included with that book? In that case, from published Fifth Edition books your best bet would be the Spacers Toolkit, which contains a large number of fully-statted and illustrated starships with backgrounds for the Terran Empire setting, both Terran and alien, of different sizes, styles and functions.

 

You might also check this excellent HERO sci-fi fan website, Star HERO Fandom.com. The section converting Babylon Five in particular has several starships.

 

There are also a number of starship conversions from various sources posted here on the Star HERO forum.

[shadowcat1313]

Re: Is there a Janes Ships of the Terran Empire?

 

I have some TE inspired ship designs I will get posted, if somebody wants something specific let me know

[shadowcat1313]

Re: Is there a Janes Ships of the Terran Empire?

 

I have the gurps 101 starships fan book here too, great book, and convertable to hero even with a lot of work, but too many licensing hassles sadly

[shadowcat1313]

Re: Is there a Janes Ships of the Terran Empire?

 

101 starships is also still available from Freelance Traveller

[Sir Ofeelya]

Re: Is there a Janes Ships of the Terran Empire?

 

Thanks guys to all your comments and suggestions. What I have been doing is taking ships from the FGU Space Opera setting and converting them. I figure that what they "do" is more important than nuts and bolts. Once I got past that designing ships seems a little easier in Hero.

[shadowcat1313]

Re: Is there a Janes Ships of the Terran Empire?

 

Thanks guys to all your comments and suggestions. What I have been doing is taking ships from the FGU Space Opera setting and converting them. I figure that what they "do" is more important than nuts and bolts. Once I got past that designing ships seems a little easier in Hero.

 

ok, what books are you working from, I have all 3 Seldons compendiums here, and have tinkered with doing some conversions over the years, be happy to compare notes.

 

was also looking at tinkering with some stuff from Silent Death someday

but thats a definite someday project.

[Sketchpad]

Re: Is there a Janes Ships of the Terran Empire?

 

Have you looked at Future Armada?

[Nyrath]

Re: Is there a Janes Ships of the Terran Empire?

 

Have you looked at Future Armada?

In the gallery section is a 3-D star map on a hex grid, that is reasonably accurate.

 

It does use equatorial coordinates instead of galactic, but most gamers could care less.

[Sir Ofeelya]

Re: Is there a Janes Ships of the Terran Empire?

 

Just about finished the Denoba-class Spice Runner. In Space Opera, ships can move pretty fast. This one clocks along at 45Ly per day max speed. That is something like 16,000Ly/Yr. I was wondering what limitations to put on the engines to keep speed down to a cruising speed of 75% of Max Speed without using considerably more fuel (END).

[shadowcat1313]

Re: Is there a Janes Ships of the Terran Empire?

 

you could just do a conditional increased endurance cost, say *2 END when going faster thn 75% of max speed

[tkdguy]

Re: Is there a Janes Ships of the Terran Empire?

 

In case you need some visuals, here are a couple of websites with starship art:

 

Concept Ships

 

Astrrona

[IndianaJoe3]

Re: Is there a Janes Ships of the Terran Empire?

 

I was wondering what limitations to put on the engines to keep speed down to a cruising speed of 75% of Max Speed without using considerably more fuel (END).

 

The canonical way is to buy the last level of FTL Travel with Increased Endurance Cost. You might also use Ablative to reflect the increased strain of sustained operation at full power.