GoldenAge Posted July 16, 2012 Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 We've rejoined the space community here in Lake Geneva and restarted a version of the old NEMESIS game (see sig below for more info). We're really stoked to get back to our version of STAR HERO (recently nominated for 2 ENie Awards)!!! We dove right into the game and have already recreated an entire galaxy from scratch (just 2 more to go - You can find the map on the NEMESIS thread here). The one thing I'd like to do on this trip through the TGU is explore ship-to-ship combat. But I'm so bogged down with characters, planets, galaxies and plot lines that I don't really have the time to create finished star ships. That's why I'm asking you all for help... I'm hoping that you folks will be willing to... Share your finished STAR HERO/Terran Empire star ships with me. If you have finished Hero ship write-ups I would really appreciate it if I could borrow them for use in my game. Post them here, redirect me to other web sites where they can be found or email them to me if you are willing. Any help would be very appreciated!!!!! In the mean time... Take a look at my NEMESIS SQUADRON thread (in sig). Take what you want for inclusion in your own STAR HERO games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenAge Posted July 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2012 Re: Anyone have pre-made star ships??? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted July 18, 2012 Report Share Posted July 18, 2012 Re: Anyone have pre-made star ships??? If I had a premade starship, would I still be on this godforsaken planet?! Oh, you meant in-game. Never mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenAge Posted July 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 Re: Anyone have pre-made star ships??? Old Man, I'm seriously starting to believe that everyone that has ever played Star Hero and created a ship has manifested their dream and... left the damn planet!!! Not a single hit (besides you) on this post... I realize making ships can be a chore, but I thought at least a few folks out there would have ships to share. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted July 19, 2012 Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 Re: Anyone have pre-made star ships??? It's sort of a "Yes, but...." situation. I've got a number of finely-crafted Star Hero spacecraft, designed specifically for the Terracide setting, which uses very different baseline technological assumptions from the Terran Empire setting. They might be good designs, but they're probably completely unsuitable for the game you're running. I think the background info might be useful to you as a source of ideas, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenAge Posted July 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 Re: Anyone have pre-made star ships??? Heck yah! I'm always interested in other's settings/ideas. As long as the points are correct on your ships there's no reason why they wouldn't work as xeno-ships from outside our TGU playground. I try to incorporate (ahem, steal) as much as I can into our game. The "stew/homebrew" universe we have going lets players adapt their favorite parts of existing scifi stuff into their characters and allows me a chance to throw them a curve every now and again. I'd love to see anything you're willing to share! Oops, I forgot that Terracide was far less technologically advanced than our TGU at ATRI levels between 10 and 13 (not more, as I originally assumed). Or am I wrong again??? Regardless, I'm very certain that your ships would be useful (with a little customization, perhaps) There are also times in our campaign that I focus on burgeoning star-faring races. Perhaps your ships would be a perfect fit for them. It's always fun to throw the PCs into a scenario where they don't have access to the comforts they've become dependent upon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted July 19, 2012 Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 Re: Anyone have pre-made star ships??? In some ways they're less advanced, in other ways more advanced, due to different assumptions. FTL is a lot slower: 100C is considered really fast in Terracide, which is pathetically slow by the standards of most SF settings. Weaponry is very long-ranged: space combat weapons are megascaled to 1m = 1000km. And although most of the beam weapons have the reduced by range limitation, they hit hard within optimum range. There aren't any reactionless drives, but the torch drives are phenomenally efficient, with exhaust velocities between 4% and 8% of C. (Weaponized exhaust, anyone?) There aren't any "force field" type defensive systems at all; Armor and internal reinforcement (damage reduction) are all they've got. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted July 19, 2012 Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 Re: Anyone have pre-made star ships??? Working on some "Class" SFB style ships at the moment (Frigate, Destroy, Cruise, Heavy Cruiser, Battle Cruiser, Dreadnaught etc etc etc). Fiddling around with a few builds along the lines of the Event Horizon movie, though I'm doing that more for BRP right now as opposed to HERO but I planned on converting over to HERO as well so I could add them to my SF setting stuff...... ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escafarc Posted July 19, 2012 Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 Re: Anyone have pre-made star ships??? The only TE game I've played/ran was the Alien Wars campaign and we used what was in the books for the most part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christougher Posted July 19, 2012 Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 Re: Anyone have pre-made star ships??? Well, I don't have any actual starship designs to post, but... I worked out of technical/point crunchy stuff on /how/ to build ships for my Master of Orion game. http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php/86548-A-thread-for-spaceship-and-starbase-frameworks?p=2205750#post2205750 is the link. Some discussion/clarification follows along with other peoples' ideas. If there's enough interest, I may post the spreadsheets that with the tech tree data (actual weapons and stuff). Chris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranxerox Posted July 19, 2012 Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 Re: Anyone have pre-made star ships??? The only TE game I've played/ran was the Alien Wars campaign and we used what was in the books for the most part. You can get the Alien Wars Hero Designer pack for $3, and it contains all the vehicles found in the Alien War campaign setting book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnaskar Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Re: Anyone have pre-made star ships??? If I had a premade starship' date=' would I still be on this godforsaken planet?![/quote'] Must spread rep... I've built a total of one ship in HERO system, and that was for a champions game. A Qularr battleship, designed as a self sufficient bio-ship; the flag ship of their Earth invasion fleet. Of course, by the time I actually stated it up the players had already captured it, replaced most of the crew (except a few Qularr defectors) with UNTIL agents, and used it to spark a revolution on the Qularr home world. And destroy a Giant, Planet Eating Death Squid . It remained their headquarters throughout the rest of the campaign. Sadly, the build is stored on my other computer, 500 miles away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christougher Posted July 26, 2012 Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 Re: Anyone have pre-made star ships??? I'm at the wrong computer to remember the author's name, but someone way in the past did a whole bunch of writeups of Traveller ships for Hero. Search the Star Hero forum for Traveller ships, but set for all posts, not time limited... Hey wait, why don't I just do that. *smacks self* It was shadowcat1313. Chris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tancred Posted July 27, 2012 Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 Re: Anyone have pre-made star ships??? I'm at the wrong computer to remember the author's name, but someone way in the past did a whole bunch of writeups of Traveller ships for Hero. Search the Star Hero forum for Traveller ships, but set for all posts, not time limited... Hey wait, why don't I just do that. *smacks self* It was shadowcat1313. Chris. Shadowcat is the grand master of Traveller starships. He did most of the conversions of them when we were working on Traveller Hero. If you have/can lay hands on a copy of that, there are over a dozen Traveller ships statted out in Hero terms, as well as starship components. Whether those are suitable for your game or not I couldn't say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 Re: Anyone have pre-made star ships??? thought I heard my name taken in vein, or was it artery, I have a displacement crapload of assorted starship stuff archived, not just for traveller, I just have to figure out what I can and cant hand out at the very least I can probably toss out the generic traveller starship template Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 Re: Anyone have pre-made star ships??? or you could try the internet wayback machine, and you might be able to scare up one of the pre-release versions that were available Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 Re: Anyone have pre-made star ships??? heres something to start things with at least, its a beta version of what went in the book, so its not quite perfectly accurate Traveller/Hero Starship Hull Chart: Hull Size:[DT] Size: STR: Body: DCV: NOTES: 1 5 35 15 -3 2 7 45 17 -4 3 8 50 18 -5 5 9 55 19 -6 10 10 60 20 -6 15 11 65 21 -7 20 12 70 22 -8 50 14 80 24 -9 100 15 85 25 -10 200 17 95 27 -11 400 18 100 28 -12 600 19 105 29 -12 800 20 110 30 -13 1,200 21 115 31 -14 2,000 22 120 32 -14 3,000 23 125 33 -14 5,000 24 130 34 -16 8,000 25 135 35 -16 10,000 25 135 35 -16 20,000 27 145 37 -18 30,000 28 150 38 -18 50,000 29 155 39 -19 60,000 29 155 39 -19 75,000 30 160 40 -20 100,000 30 160 40 -20 200,000 32 170 42 -20 300,000 33 175 ` 43 -21 500,000 34 180 44 -22 1,000,000 35 185 45 -22 Modifiers to Hull Rating: Interior Design/Construction: Partial Comapartmentalization: +5% Total Compartmentalization: +10% Hull Construction:[Hardened Steel assumed to be standard] Planetoid Hull: +10 Body, +10 Def, ½ Cost, cannot enter atmosphere Buffered Planetoid Hull: +15 Body, +15 Def, 2/3 Cost, cannot enter atmosphere Both planetoid hulls can have armor added, but get no bonuses for hull type, or for interior design They also cannot be equipped with stealth hulls. Advanced Hull Material I[ Titanium Alloy]: +1 Body/+1 Def Advanced Hull Material II [Light Composite]: +2 Body/+1 Def Advanced Hull Material III [Composite Laminate]: +2 Body/+2 Def Advanced Hull Material IV [Crystal Iron]: +5% Body/+3 Def, can add thermal superconducting armor Advanced Hull Material V [superdense]: +10% Body/ +4 Def, can add tsa Advanced Hull Material VI [bonded Superdense]: +20% Body, +8 Def, can add tsa Advanced Hull Material VII [Coherent Superdense]: +25% Body, +12 Def, can add tsa Advanced Hull Material VIII [Living Metal]: +15% Body, no tsa, regenerates 1 Body per Hour, *3 Cost Advanced Hull Material IX [biomechanical]: Standard Body, regens 1 body per Day, *2 Cost Advanced Hull Material X[battlemech Armor]: +3 DEF, +2 Body, counts as hardened TSA Advanced Hull Material XI[Ferro Fibrous Mech Armor] +5 Def, +3 Body, counts as hardened tsa Advanced Hull Material XIII[Ferro Aluminum Armor] +4 Def, +3 Body, Counts as TSA, brittle Advanced Hull Material XIV[battlemech etc EndoSteel Internal Structure]: +3 Body, extra bulky Hull Types: Dispersed/Open Structure: cannot enter atmosphere, no added armor[Def 4], adds +4 body, often modular, .75 cost Needle: Airframe or streamlined, fully atmospheric, adds +3 body, Airframe adds +2 PSR for maneuvers, cost of basic hull is *2 CR Wedge: AF or SL, fully atmospheric, adds +2 body, AF +2 PSR, *1.5 Cr Cylinder: AF or SL, fully atmospheric, adds +1 body, AF +1 PSR, *1.25 CR Box: SL only, partially atmospheric, adds +1 body, standard cost Sphere: SL Only, partially atmospheric, standard body, standard cost Dome/Disk: AF or SL, fully atmospheric, adds +2 body, AF +1 PSR, *1.25 cost Close Structure: Unstreamlined, adds +2 body, *1.25 cost Slab: AF or SL, +2 body, +1 PSR, *1.5 cost Sensor Packages: Traveller sensor packages are divided into active and passive sets. The Active Arrays can have a range of anywhere from 3,000 to 480,000 kilometers And consists of a variety of active and passive sensor emitters, making it a much more sophisticated Version of Radar.[Radar, Lidar, Sonar] Passive sensor arrays, use large antennae to detect any electromagnetic emanations from a potential target. These are extremely sophisticated and precise sensors.[High Res Thermal, Densitometers, and Neural Activity Sensors are all passive. References Used: Traveller The New Era: Fire Fusion and Steel Megatraveller World Builders Handbook Megatraveller Starship Operators Manual GURPS Vehicles: Second Edition The Ultimate Vehicle Guide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 Re: Anyone have pre-made star ships??? ok heres the basic traveller hero starship template Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NuSoardGraphite Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 Re: Anyone have pre-made star ships??? Shadowcat, don't you have a lot of Starship writeups in the archives here? The original poster should search the Star Hero forums for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowcat1313 Posted July 28, 2012 Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 Re: Anyone have pre-made star ships??? not sure whats still out there, this will just give somebody a start, but thats all i am posting on it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenAge Posted July 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2012 Re: Anyone have pre-made star ships??? Thanks all!!! I never played Traveler, but I'm looking for a wide array of ships to use in my 3-galaxy wide game. There's room for anything. While I need them, I just don't have the time to write-up dozens of individual ships. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted July 31, 2012 Report Share Posted July 31, 2012 Re: Anyone have pre-made star ships??? I just don't have the time to write-up dozens of individual ships. That's what I used to use my Physics II lecture for. Up until I bombed a midterm anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenAge Posted April 16, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2013 Still playing Star Hero and always in need of ships of all sizes! Anyone have anything they can share??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted April 16, 2013 Report Share Posted April 16, 2013 Do you have any interest in exploring published Hero Games sources? The Spacer's Toolkit is chock-full of detailed starship write-ups and illustrations. It's for 5E HERO, but for that reason it's half its original price from website's Online Store (a mere $11.00 US for a printed copy). There are also quite a few 6E starship write-ups in Champions Beyond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenAge Posted April 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 Thanks! I'll check it out. ----- Edit: PURCHASED! Thanks!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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