[Scenario Aid] Spaceship Deck Plans

[sevateem]

I have several spaceship plans drawn up that some might find useful for a scenario. So far I have plans for a freighter, gunship, short range shuttle, commercial shuttle and a prisoner ship. I'm currently working on plans for a heavy duty freighter ship.

www.paratime.ca/cartography/index.html

Here's a sample - the freighter ship (click on images for larger versions).

Lower Deck:


Middle Deck:


The Upper Deck:


The Command Deck:


THE AESCHYLUS LIGHT FREIGHTER

Production Information
Manufacturer: Jakkoryn Galactic Construction Ltd. (JGC Ltd.)
Class: Light Freighter

Technical Specifications
Length: 100 meters (330 ft)
Hyperdrive System: Yes
Crew: 18
Passengers: 4
Cargo Capacity: 85 cubic meters (3000 cubic feet)
Maximum Travel Duration: Three Months

Usage
Role(s): Freighter, Pirate, Smuggler
Affiliation: Independent Traders, Pirates, Smugglers

Cheers,
Tim

[Null and Void]

Whoa! This is amazing! Have a karma point...

What did you use to make these?

[Curufea]

Great stuff!

Closest I've got to that is a random spaceship generator that assigns areas-
www.curufea.com/games/shipgen/ship2.php

[sevateem]

Dec 17, 2009 0:38:36 GMT Null and Void said:

Whoa! This is amazing! Have a karma point...

What did you use to make these?

I drew them by hand in Photoshop and many thanks for the karma point.

I have other maps available on my site (see link in original post). Most of them are maps for fantasy based RPGs but I think a couple of them could easily be used in a Doctor Who scenario set in the distant past or perhaps on an alien world.

Cheers,
Tim

[Curufea]

I love photoshop

I've only done a couple of maps with it though - an Inn and part of a large fantasy continent.
Are you on the Cartographers Guild forum?
forum.cartographersguild.com//index.php

Ack! Just did a quick search - you've definitely been there a while

[sevateem]

Dec 17, 2009 0:39:51 GMT Curufea said:

Great stuff!

Closest I've got to that is a random spaceship generator that assigns areas-
www.curufea.com/games/shipgen/ship2.php

Cool, I'll probably use that link when I'm stuck on what style of ship to draw next.

Cheers,
Tim

[sevateem]

Dec 17, 2009 1:00:33 GMT Curufea said:

I love photoshop

I've only done a couple of maps with it though - an Inn and part of a large fantasy continent.
Are you on the Cartographers Guild forum?
forum.cartographersguild.com//index.php

Ack! Just did a quick search - you've definitely been there a while

I'm a Photoshop addict. ;D The Cartographer's Guild is a great place! I haven't been around much lately because I've been busy with a couple RPG products I've been working on. At the moment, I'm trying to get my mind back to the fantasy genre but the call of Doctor Who rpg is too great. I guess my Resolve isn't as high as I thought it was.

Cheers,
Tim

[Curufea]

Tell me about it, I was working on a couple of webgames and have now been side tracked into collating Who stuff because it's taken priority

[gmjake]

awesome spaceship

[sevateem]

Thought I would add my stats for...

THE HYPERION SHORT RANGE SHUTTLE

Production Information
Manufacturer: Dynastra Industries
Class: Shuttle

Technical Specifications
Length: 28.3 meters (93 ft)
Hyperdrive System: None
Crew: Pilots (4), Steward (1)
Passengers: 18
Cargo Capacity: 1 metric ton (storage space in the under carriage)
Maximum Travel Duration: Two days

Usage
Role(s): Short-range personnel shuttle, Courier
Affiliation: Various civilian governments and corporations


Clink on image for a much bigger version.

[THE \/ince]

Excellent maps, many thanks.

Will give you Karma as soon as I can.

THE \/ince

[sevateem]

Here's another one...

BOREAS GUNSHIP

Production Information
Manufacturer: Torimodosu Industries
Class: Gunship

Technical Specifications
Length: 53.3 meters (1750 ft)
Hyperdrive System: Yes
Crew: 55
Passengers: None
Cargo Capacity: 10 cubic meters (353 cubic feet)
Maximum Travel Duration: Two Months Months

Usage
Role(s): Assault, Intercept, Escort
Affiliation: Government and/or Corporate Militaries







ADVENTURE SEEDS:

STRANDED - The gunship has crashed on an asteroid. The crew are busy making repairs but something on the asteroid is preying on the crew. The TARDIS arrives...

IT'S WAR! - War has broken out between the Earth Empire and an alien species (i.e. the draconians, ice warriors, or a new species). The gunship is on active duty and entering hostile space when the TARDIS arrives on board. A rutan interceptor encounters the gunship and attacks. During the brief fight, a rutan boarding missile had hit the gunship. A rutan agent exits the missile and enters the gunship. It's goal is infiltration and control.

PEACE TALKS - A gunship is being used for diplomatic purposes as it transfer an earth ambassador to an arranged coordinates for a top secret conference. An omni-dimensional power takes an interest in the TARDIS. This causes the TARDIS to materialize in the direct path of the gunship. A quick dematerialization causes the TARDIS to arrive on the gunship. Both the TARDIS and the gunship are 'zapped' to another dimension. This dimension is controlled by the omni-dimensional power (The Great Intelligence?). The TARDIS and gunship crew have to work together to escape this dimension.

SALVAGE - The gunship floats dead in space. It's a relic of a long forgotten war. An Io salvage company has sent a ship to salvage the floating wreck. Something has taken refuge in the wreck and will invade the salvage ship once contact had been made. The TARDIS arrives on board the salvage ship just before contact. A "sleeping" alien/creature awakens and tries to take control of the salvage ship. There is now fresh meat for the alien to feed on.

[sutekh]

Excellent work! I like the adventure hooks for this one.

A quick question though - what elements do you think are necessary to give a starship a Doctor Who feel?

[sevateem]

Jan 1, 2010 4:12:04 GMT sutekh said:

A quick question though - what elements do you think are necessary to give a starship a Doctor Who feel?

I'm not sure if there are any specific elements that would give a spaceship a Doctor Who feel. I think the Whovian feel would be accomplished by the adventure and characters involved. The ship is just the backdrop/setting for the adventure.

I could easily see running an adventure using the Aeschylus freighter that was set in the future of the Earth Empire or Federation where the ship is breached by an alien force (cybermen, nestene, the wirrn, etc) that is trying to gain access to the whole ship. Add the player characters to the mix and stir.

One idea I did have is instead of having the player characters show up in the TARDIS, they could perhaps be members of the freighter's crew who survived the alien force and now travel with the Doctor or other Time Lord character (as the case may be).

[Rassilon]

Beautiful work and this earns you a Unique Custom Name & a sticky.

You can of course choose your new name. The current one is an example.

Regards,
Admin

[sevateem]

Thanks for the unique custom name, Rassilon. What you wrote works for me. Very cool! *thumbs up*

Back to spaceship deckplans, here's the stats for the commercial space shuttle (click for the larger version).

MERCURY X-9 COMMERCIAL SHUTTLE

Production Information
Manufacturer: Dynastra Industries
Class: Commercial Shuttle

Technical Specifications
Length: 68.58 meters (225 feet)
Hyperdrive System: None
Crew: Pilots (5), Stewards (4)
Passengers: 60
Cargo Capacity: 792.87 cubic metres (28,000 cubic feet)
Other Systems: Two days

Usage
Role(s): Short-range commercial shuttle, courier
Affiliation: Various corporations and/or civilian governments

I picture the pilots and/or stewards will double as the "engineering" crew with any major repairs done by qualified personal at a spaceport. The storage area would be for the customer's luggage and for anything else a customer or company might want to ship (as long as they can afford it).

[giftedmunchkin]

Awesome! I don't know which one of these I'm going to use, but mark my words, I'm going to steal one of these for my Spaceship of the Lost episode. Thanks!

[Curufea]

Hmm, I can give you some tongue-in-cheek advice on designing Doctor Who-esque spaceships-

Corridors are wide (suitable to move large cameras down).

Spaceships come in two varieties

• Floors are flat and shiny (just like a studio). If there are any elevation changes, these will be ramps or steps of a material different than the floor (and possibly resting on it). You can't go down, just up. Walls are vertical, with minimal decoration and of a repetative modular nature - many rooms share the same walls and decoration, just moved about a bit.
  
• Floors are old/dirty concrete. Elevation changes are usually stairs, but can include ladders and lifts. Walls are industrial (just as though the episode was filmed in some kind of industrial plant or factory).
  

[sevateem]

LOL! Have a point of karma, Curufea. That post cracked me up.

[Spickey Millane]

These deck plans could be really useful. Thanks for sharing

[sevateem]

ATLAS CLASS CARGO SHIP


Click to enlarge

Production Information
Manufacturer: Kres-Kor Aerospace Construction
Class: Deep Space Cargo Ship

Technical Specifications
Length: 187.5 meters (615 ft)
Hyperdrive System: Yes
Crew: 3
Passengers: None
Cargo Capacity: 21,662.4 cubic meters (765,000 cubic feet)
Maximum Travel Duration: Six Months

Usage
Role(s): Bulk Transport
Affiliation: Corporations

I'm visualizing this cargo ship as having either an early FTL drive so cryo-pods are needed for the crew (who can be awaken should the computer detect an anomaly), or the company that employs this class of ship cuts back on gravity generation as a cost cutting measure. Imagine the crew's surprise when their cargo turns out to be Cybermen or some other monster.

[sevateem]

I ended up tweaking the Atlas ship design a little bit and turned it into a PDF. Click on the image below for the PDF.



Cheers,
Tim

[Curufea]

Nice!

[sevateem]

Thanks Curufea. I think my neck Sci-Fi map is going to be a space base of some type (once I find the time).

[Eternally Lost Zeppo]

Hmm...may adapt the Aeschylus as the ship used by a temporal 'press gang' in an upcoming game, though I'm thinking an orbital or moon base might be better...

[Bob the Rutan]

FANTASTIC! I've been using the "Future Armada" ships from DriveThruRPG, most of which are pretty inexpensive, but I'm always looking for more, and these are exceptional.

[sevateem]

This isn't a spaceship but I thought it could still be used in a Doctor Who game so I thought I would share it here. Here’s a map of an underground shelter that I’ve been working on. Click on the image for the full size version.



Surface Level/Bunker
1. Entrance Area: A corridor descends into the ground with a gradual slope. This corridor goes for 21.3m (70 ft) until it ends at a set of environmentally sealed doors (see Quarantine Level).

Quarantine Level
1. Decontamination Chamber
2. Air Quality Monitor Chamber
3. Radiation Monitor Station
4. Corridor Hub
L = Lift/Elevator
S = Stairwell

Habitat Level
1. Corridor Hub
2. Common Area
3. Corridor Hub
4. Mess Hall
5. Kitchen/Food Processing
6. Refreshers/Cleansing Stations
7. Communal Barracks
Q = Quarters (private or semi-private)

[sevateem]

Here's another level to the Underground Shelter. Click on image for the full size version.



Underground Shelter – Hydroponics/Aeroponics Level
1. Corridor Hub
2. Hydroponic Growing Stations
3. Aeroponic Growing Stations
4. Research/Testing Labs
5. Botanical Gardens Airlocks: A precaution to make sure that none of the living species (especially the insect species) in the Botanical Gardens escape and contaminate the rest of the Underground Shelter.
6. Botanical Gardens: Many flora species and several insect and small avian species call this large chamber home.
7. Flora/Fauna Gene Banks: The genetic codes of many animal and plant species are stored in these chambers.
8. Botanical Gardens Environmental Controls

Cheers,
Tim

[anathar]

Just wanted to add my thanks for the ship plans and the one for the base, really useful to me as a GM as with these images to help fire my inspiration to write into story arcs too.

Keep well,
Anathar

[barefoottourguide]

Check out mapsofmastery.com. They have many great starship deckplans and space station maps and tiles. Worth their weight in gold.
Garrett