Starship map

[TheFool1972]

A while back... For the Alternity game... I created a starship map for a Paladin class Corvette.

 

Here is the info blurb on it, minus the stats for now:

 

History

The Paladin class corvette is a paradox; it is both one of the oldest, and one of the newest additions to the Concord fleet. Originally called Venus class in the Union of Sol, these ships were designed for support and escort duty. Lightly armored and heavily weaponed, they were made for multi-role combat situations. Over 100 years old, they served well in the old Union, and many were lost during the Second Galactic War.

 

The Paladin itself was heavily damaged in a battle around the Union world of Taue-Marek during the GW2. The Paladin had been sent on a mercy mission to drop off a vaccine to the colonies there, and had just finished unloading when four ships, easily recognized as pirates, were detected starrising in the outer system. Knowing they were outmatched the captain and crew still defended the colony. While the ship was slowly being blown from around them, the captain tried ploy after desperate ploy. In the end, the Paladin destroyed one of the pirate vessels, and disabled two others. The last pirate vessel's final shot finally broke through the armor of the bridge, killing the command crew and destroying the computer. The last pirate, intent on its victim, never saw the High-Roller coming. A merchant vessel, it fired its (highly illegal) twin missile racks at the pirate, destroying it and saving the crew of the Paladin.

 

In honor of the ship's memory, the entire class of ship was renamed Paladin. The Paladin itself was retired to scrap, and was quickly forgotten. Fifteen years ago the Paladin was sold to the Mechalus. It was then sent to CyberSpace Academy for training purposes. Several classes spent nearly a decade rebuilding her, from the reinforced support skeleton to the prototype neural net computer installed under the floor of the bridge. After all was said and done, the ship was better than new. The Mechalus then gave the ship to the Concord as a gift, along with 5 of her sisters.

 

Stats

The Paladin class corvette is designed as a multi-purpose starship. The ship was obviously made to survive anything: The redundant mass reactors and induction engines, the backup life-support, and heavily armored bridge and stardrive show that. The sickbay and biolab allow it mercy and science missions. The twin plasma turrets and light armor allow it to defend the target of its choice. It's recycling system and comfortable crew quarters allows it to be out for around 30 weeks with a happy crew.

 

The crew quarters are modular, and can be rebuild to hold anything from the standard two bunk - one desk room, to a Weren toilet, to a small office. Each room contains links for life support and computer access. Each officer has a room to himself, with the captain and first officer having a larger one to hold a small office niche. Four toilets and showers are housed in both the port and starboard crew sections. The crew lounge and comfortably seat 30 with two holovid entertainment stations and a kitchen/fridge, while the officer lounge doubles as a meeting room (with another two holovids...). Each crew room holds a computer, desk, chair, and a two bunk bed with storage space. The officer quarters have about the same, but with a single bed with overhead storage. The Captain's/1st officer's quarters have a full computer control station, desk, bed, three chairs, and a closet.

 

The sickbay offers succor to four crewmembers, and includes the best surgery autodoc that money can buy. With twin labs and an office for the medical officer, with area comes with a dedicated medical computer built into every bed (-3 bonus), and links the computer core's science stations.

 

The biolab has in addition to its two offices a locked storage room and two airlocked bio-containment labs. These labs have airlocks to separate them from the rest of the biolab, and are capable of being burned with superheated plasma, frozen with liquid nitrogen, and finally, vented into space. These labs allow harmful substances to be examined without danger to the crew. Each containment lab has an emergency locker.

 

The engineering sections are made so if one mass reactor and/or induction engine is destroyed that the ship can still function. Each section is separated from the others with one-meter thick internal armored support walls.

 

The computer is an amazing system, not only is it powerful, but also modular in hardware and software. Each section of the ship has dedicated stations, but instead of having it set to only one type of system (weapon, science, sensors, etc...), the station can be set to act as any type of station needed. To do this takes one round to download the new settings from the computer core. This means that the weapons could be controlled from the biolab, or that a destroyed sensor station could be reloaded into the communication console.

 

The computer also has one more trick. It contains an AI of amazing quality. The AI can control all ship functions and can also monitor its own internal sensors to talk with its crew. Built into its very being is a desire to protect its crew and defend the interests of the Concord. These computers start at level 4 and are normally gained at the rate of one every two years. The Paladin's AI is known as "Sis."

 

Notes

This ship type is not for sale. It is only for the use of characters that are working for the Concord. If any of these seven ships ever were lost, the concord would spare no expense recapturing them. Voidcorp is examining the possibility of "borrowing" one for dissection.

 

 

The Fool

"The Paladin class corvette is designed as a multi-purpose starship. The ship was obviously made to survive anything..."

[Tim]

Do you have an outside picture of the ship, so we can get an idea of how it goes together?