This is where I take my oldest drawings and attempt to make them into something usable. It's also the place were ships of the one off variety come. You'll see as we go along. I will also be narrating in Character as your tour guide, showing the ships to some Imperium buyers. This shipyard by the way is in unlined space between the Imperium and The Innerempires, which are Coreward/Spinward of Traveller space. We are talking about Proto-Imperium here. The Sectors from the time of the Little Black Books.
I hope this will be come a series as I update my oldest Drawings. So here we Go...
"Welcome." The 1.8 meter tall man with the short peppered black hair and gray eyes smiled. "My name is Maxamilian Granger, you can call me Max."
He speaks Galactican. Imperial Intelligence linguistic specialist did not prepare you for his accent. He then shakes the three members of your team hands. Clearly, he knows something about Solomani customs. He then picks up four PDA (Personal Data Assistants) and hands them out. With a smile on his face, he points towards the backdoor and says. "Shall we take a look."
"The PDA's I've given you will give you the details on each ship we look at." He walks toward the first ship in line. "This Gentlemen, is a C1 Dral."
This is the first time you notice he has a limp.
"Dral is a major corporation within the Innerempires. It manufactures all sorts of things from bathtubs to starships. Their ships are also know for their reliability and durability. Those engines are a tried and trusted design dating back centuries and refined as time goes by." He chuckles. "The one thing everyone who has own one, says about them is they have there quirks."
BACKSTORY: I design this ship back in my early days of designing. It basically one of my versions of a runabout. Dral was a name that I plucked out of thin air and it stuck to these sorts of Ugly Duckling ships. There crew size is also small because I couldn't find enough players to run a game. As far as the Quirks go, think of your first car and the little things that were wrong with it. (Wouldn't start, had to giggle the key in the ignition or, that odor you could never get rid of when you turn on the AC. All those little horror stories you've heard from family and friends.)
"This next one we got from a government yard sale." His eyes smile as your group is confused by the usage of his words. "I meant to say a Government sale of impounded goods. Where the ship was impounded and fines and or tariffs were not paid."
BACKSTORY: This was a ship I ran my first adventure with. Basically, a ship has crashed somewhere on approach to the starport. You the adventurer, are sent out to find it. After discovering the ship, you find it infested with nasties and a little girl is unaccounted for. So you have to enter the ship to find the little girl, fight nasties and all sorts of other dangers involving a crashed starship. I also did a modified version of this as well. It also became the ship of the 'insert evil Megacorporation'.
"And here is a ship only a rich man can afford." He scowled. "It has no cargo hold so you can't make money as a side hustle."
BACKSTORY: I often complete one ship and get ideas for another while working on it. This is such a ship. While converting the C1 Dral, I decide to see how small I could build a ship and this was it.
I'm going to end it here for the moment. I want to see how well this is recieved and answer any of your questions.
I hope this will be come a series as I update my oldest Drawings. So here we Go...
"Welcome." The 1.8 meter tall man with the short peppered black hair and gray eyes smiled. "My name is Maxamilian Granger, you can call me Max."
He speaks Galactican. Imperial Intelligence linguistic specialist did not prepare you for his accent. He then shakes the three members of your team hands. Clearly, he knows something about Solomani customs. He then picks up four PDA (Personal Data Assistants) and hands them out. With a smile on his face, he points towards the backdoor and says. "Shall we take a look."
"The PDA's I've given you will give you the details on each ship we look at." He walks toward the first ship in line. "This Gentlemen, is a C1 Dral."
This is the first time you notice he has a limp.
"Dral is a major corporation within the Innerempires. It manufactures all sorts of things from bathtubs to starships. Their ships are also know for their reliability and durability. Those engines are a tried and trusted design dating back centuries and refined as time goes by." He chuckles. "The one thing everyone who has own one, says about them is they have there quirks."
BACKSTORY: I design this ship back in my early days of designing. It basically one of my versions of a runabout. Dral was a name that I plucked out of thin air and it stuck to these sorts of Ugly Duckling ships. There crew size is also small because I couldn't find enough players to run a game. As far as the Quirks go, think of your first car and the little things that were wrong with it. (Wouldn't start, had to giggle the key in the ignition or, that odor you could never get rid of when you turn on the AC. All those little horror stories you've heard from family and friends.)
"This next one we got from a government yard sale." His eyes smile as your group is confused by the usage of his words. "I meant to say a Government sale of impounded goods. Where the ship was impounded and fines and or tariffs were not paid."
BACKSTORY: This was a ship I ran my first adventure with. Basically, a ship has crashed somewhere on approach to the starport. You the adventurer, are sent out to find it. After discovering the ship, you find it infested with nasties and a little girl is unaccounted for. So you have to enter the ship to find the little girl, fight nasties and all sorts of other dangers involving a crashed starship. I also did a modified version of this as well. It also became the ship of the 'insert evil Megacorporation'.
"And here is a ship only a rich man can afford." He scowled. "It has no cargo hold so you can't make money as a side hustle."
BACKSTORY: I often complete one ship and get ideas for another while working on it. This is such a ship. While converting the C1 Dral, I decide to see how small I could build a ship and this was it.
I'm going to end it here for the moment. I want to see how well this is recieved and answer any of your questions.