Banner Class Light Merchant (Traveller)

A cheap and readily available light merchant built on the venerable Type-S hull design.

This vessel is a Jump 1, no frills light cargo hauler.  1-2 crew, no passengers.

High Guard Stats (built using High Guard Shipyard software by Andrea Moffatt-Valence):

Ship: MV Free Enterprise
Class: Banner
Type: Light Merchant

Tech Level: 10

USP
EX-1111111-030000-10001-0 MCr 37.350 100 Tons
Crew: 2
TL: 10

Cargo: 54.000 Fuel: 11.000 EP: 1.000 Agility: 0 Pulse Lasers
Fuel Treatment: Fuel Scoops

Architects Fee: MCr 0.374   Cost in Quantity: MCr 29.880

Detailed Description

HULL
100.000 tons standard, 1,400.000 cubic meters, Needle/Wedge Configuration

CREW
Pilot, Gunner

ENGINEERING
Jump-1, 1G Manuever, Power plant-1, 1.000 EP, Agility 0

AVIONICS
Bridge, Model/1 Computer

HARDPOINTS
1 Hardpoint

ARMAMENT
1 Triple Mixed Turret with: 1 Pulse Laser (Factor-1), 1 Missile Rack (Factor-1).

DEFENCES
1 Single Sandcaster Turret organised into 1 Battery (Factor-3)

CRAFT
None

FUEL
11.000 Tons Fuel (1 parsecs jump and 28 days endurance)
On Board Fuel Scoops, No Fuel Purification Plant

MISCELLANEOUS
1.5 Staterooms, 54.000 Tons Cargo

USER DEFINED COMPONENTS
None

COST
MCr 37.724 Singly (incl. Architects fees of MCr 0.374), MCr 29.880 in Quantity

CONSTRUCTION TIME
38 Weeks Singly, 30 Weeks in Quantity

Banner Class 1

Banner Class 2

UPDATE: How it hangs together.

Banner cross section

Credit: Inspiration for this Travellerisation comes from the Space Opera game. I forgot to credit it when I originally posted it.  Given how much it resembles a Type S Scout anyway I already think there was a lot of cross fertilizing going on even in 1981 when Seldon;s Compendium of Starcraft I was published by FGU.

5 thoughts on “Banner Class Light Merchant (Traveller)”

  1. Sort of – it goes underneath the engineering section. I guess I should do a cross-section to show how I think it goes together. Either that or it is a Tardis.

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