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[pyat]

Thinking about spaceship costs in Star Wars and Traveller got me thinking about the old ship creation charts I made for Star Wars. It was very much an ad hoc set of rules, but I remember I once sat down and codified them, in my first year of university. While digging through my old WeG Star Wars RPG notes, I came across the following document, written about 15 years ago.

Note that, according to these rules, it is possible to buy a really, really terrible hyperdrive-equipped ship on the used market for about 500 credits. It would essentially be a light metal vessel with no space for cargo, tiny sublight engines, and no weapons. Sort of like a moped, really. You can take it on the highway, but it's not a good idea. It'd have hyperdrives, but you'd starve to death before finishing the Kessel Run.

A more reasonable "bare minimum for adventurers" vessel (Hull: 1D, Sublight: 1D, x4 Hyperdrive, R2 unit for astrogation, 2 passengers, light laser without fire control) would run about 15,000 new and 3,800 on the used market. It would essentially be the Star Wars equivalent of a Fiat 500 with a machine gun mount.

In the notes below, the "Star Cow" was an infamous albatross of a vessel in my Star Wars games in high school. The players always seemed to end up flying it or crossing paths with it.

Star Wars

Starship Enhancement/Construction Chart

By Pieter van Hiel

When buying a starship, cross-reference the stat with desired die code rating to find the cost of that rating. Add the costs together to find the total cost of the ship. When enhancing a ship, each die code level must be paid for before advancing to the next die code. Enhancements beyond 6D are possible, but only as military prototypes. Each additional step beyond 6D costs three times as much as the last step, eg. Shields of 6D+1 = 750,000 credits, 6D+2 = 2,250,000 credits, etc. Enhancing manuever beyond 5D is impossible with human-piloted ships. Computer piloted ships may go higher, use the Shield cost table for this. Costs are for Starfighter scale vessels only. Assume 25% cost when buying used vessels. 

 

Die Code	Hull	Sublight	Maneuver	Shields
+1	250	1,000	5,000	1,500
+2	500	1,500	10,000	5,000
1D	1,000	2,500	25,000	10,000
1D+1	1,250	3,125	31,250	12,500
1D+2	1,500	3,900	39,060	15,625
2D	2,000	5,000	45,000	25,000
2D+1	2,500	6,250	60,000	31,250
2D+2	3,000	7,800	75,000	39,060
3D	4,000	20,000	93,725	50,000
3D+1	5,000	25,000	100,000	62,500
3D+2	6,000	27,500	125,000	78,125
4D	8,000	40,000	156,000	100,000
4D+1	10,000	50,000	185,000	125,000
4D+2	12,000	62,500	200,000	156,000
5D	16,000	100,000	300,000	300,000
5D+1	20,000	125,000	NA	375,000
5D+2	24,000	156,200	NA	468,750
6D	32,000	250,000	NA	600,000

* Enhancements beyond 4D triple in cost outside of Core Worlds

**Enhancements beyond 5D times ten cost outside of Core Worlds

HyperDrive  Rating	Cost
x10 (Backups)	1,000
x4	1,250
x3.5	1,500
x3	2,500
x2.5	5,000
x2	10,000
x1.5	15,000
x1	25,000
x0.5	100,000
x0.25	250,000
x0.10	1,000,000

Ship Extras
Cargo: 500 per ton
Fire Control: 2000 per pip
Nav Computer: 5000
Passengers: 1000 per +1

Armament
Light Laser (4D dmg) 5000
Medium Laser (5D dmg) 7500
Heavy Laser (6D dmg) 10000
  Torpedo System 2000 (Holds 2 torpedoes)
Torpedo, each (9D dmg) 500
Missile System 1500 (Holds 2 missiles)
Missile, each (8D dmg) 750

Common Ship types in Star Wars

Small Pleasure Craft

Length: 20m Scale: Starfighter Crew: 1 Passengers: 8

Cargo Capacity: 1 ton Consumables: 1 month Hyperdrive: x1.5

Nav Computer: Yes Backups: Yes Sublight: 2D Hull: 2D

Maneuver: 0 Shields: 0

Cost - new: 36,500 used: 9,125

 

Light Freighter

Length: 30m Scale: Starfighter Crew: 2 Passengers: 6

Cargo Capacty: 100 tons Consumables: 2 months Hyperdrive: x2

Nav Computer: Yes Backups: Yes Sublight: 2D Hull: 4D

Manuever: 0 Shields: 0

Weapons: Light Laser cannon - Fire control: 2D, Damage: 4D

Cost - new: 100,000 used: 25,000

 

Small Luxury Yacht

Length: 90m Scale: Starfighter Crew: 5 Passengers: 20

Cargo Capacity: 50 tons Consumables: 2 months Hyperdrive: x1

Nav Computer: Yes Backups: Yes Sublight: 2D Hull: 5D

Manuever: 0 Shields: 2D

Weapons: 2 Light Laser Cannons - Fire Control:1D, Damage:4D

Cost - new: 137,000 used: 34,250

 

Competitive Racing Ship

Length: 10m Scale: Starfigher Crew: 1 Passengers: 2

Cargo Capacity: 0 Consumables: 2 weeks Hyperdrive: x1

Nav Computer: Yes Backups: No Sublight: 3D+2 Hull: 2D

Maneuver: 1D Shields: 0

Cost - new: 84,500 used: 21,125

 

Corporate Security Ship

Length: 30m Scale: Starfighter Crew: 2 Passengers: 10

Cargo Capacity: 20 tons Consumables: 4 months Hyperdrive: x1

Nav Computer: Yes Backups: Yes Sublight: 3D Hull: 5D

Maneuver: 0 Shields: 2D+2

Weapons: 2 Medium Laser Cannons - Fire Control: 2D, Damage: 5D

Heavy Laser Cannon - Fire Control: 1D, Damage: 6D

Concussion Missiles - Fire Control: 2D, Damage: 8D

Cost - new: 176,060 used: 44,015

 

The Star Cow / Red Cow

Length: 80m Scale: Starfighter Crew:1 Passengers: 12

Cargo Capacity: 400 tons Consumables: 2 years Hyperdrive: x4

Nav Computer: No Backups: No Sublight: 1D Hull: 5D+2

Maneuver: -1D Shields: 0

Weapons: Light Laser Cannon - Fire Control: 0, Damage:4D

Cost - used only: 54,875

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comments

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Well, my thinking was that Han's hyperdrive was fast, but something along the lines of, "Surplus Coast Guard cutter engines on a fishing trawler." Which is to say, really fast for a freighter, but not necessarily the fastest thing, ever. There are going to be faster engines out there, if only in military ships or ships owned by the ultrarich.