Dolphin-Class Passenger Liner

[Lloyd Gross]

Dolphin-Class Passenger Liner



AFFILIATION

Open Market


MANUFACTURER

Corona Shipyards


CLASS

Transport

ROLE

Passenger Liner

COMPOSITION

Durasteel and transperisteel


DIMENSIONS

Length: 90M

Width: 25M

Height: 25M



CREW

Minimum: 5
Optimal: 25


PASSENGER CAPACITY

Luxury Variant: 40, 20 cabins

Spoiler: dimensions

5M wide X 10M long X 5M high with 2 passengers per cabin

Business Variant: 100, 50 cabins

Spoiler: dimensions

5M X 5M X 2.5M with 2 passengers per cabin

Cargo Variant: 50, 25 cabins


CARGO CAPACITY

Luxury and Business Variant: 50 Standard Tons

Cargo Variant: 100 Standard Tons



HANGAR CAPACITY

None


CONSUMABLES

Normal Operation: 60 days

Rations: 150 days


SPEED/MANEUVERABILITY

50MGLT Low maneuverability.


ARMAMENT

• None

EQUIPMENT

• Hyperdrive Class 4
  
• Escape Pods (3 carrying 20 people)
  
• Long range sensors, scanners, and comms
  
• Civilian Shield Generator
• Dining Cabin
  
• Observation Deck
  
• Game Hall
• Planetarium

DESCRIPTION​

The Dolphin Class Passenger ship is a top of the line luxury liner. It was designed by Corona shipyards to help bridge the gap between cheap transportation and personal starship ownership. In order to entice more customers they threw in an exploration flair to the vessel. The Dolphin was an easy way to please Corona investors. The ship carries little expensive equipment and is cheaply and quickly made. The finer putter and inner finish of the vessel however lends the end user to believe they are traveling in a high end liner, thus enabling Corona to sell the vessel for much more than its really worth.

The initial glitz and glamour brought in hundreds of orders from individual operators as well as larger transport corporations. Several years after initial development there was a case where a Dolphin encountered severe electrical issues while flying into a nebula. Normally, the damage would have been manageable but system after system failed to reboot and the entire vessel and its cargo were lost. The publicity fallout damaged the reputation of the Dolphin but Corona shipyards shifted blame toward poor crew management and raised questions as to why the captain didn’t order the escape pods to be used. Several similar incidents have occurred but each time Corona lay the blame with pilot error, and some of the time they were right. Regardless, the Dolphin is still under production but sales numbers are on the decline.

While the Dolphin is owned by larger corporations, the vast majority of ownership is by private individuals. Like merchants who find valuable markets, these spacers seek out space anomalies and create routes to take their passengers on. The more awe inspiring the anomaly, the more money they make and the route kept even more secret.

It is unarmed but modestly armored to protect all those VIPs you’re carrying. It’s designers didn’t see fit to make it very fast either. This is fine for leisurely cruises around brightly lit Coruscant, but in combat or dealing with pirates it is a serious drawback.

The vessel comes equipped with everything you’d expect on a passenger liner: a dining cabin; large observation/mingling deck; a cabin reserved for Sabaac, 3D Chess and similar games; and a planetarium where guests can see where they are and where they are going as well as the whole discovered universe.

The main attraction of this vessel is its long range capabilities. This allows for deep space exploration and touring for your adventurous passengers. The shielding on the vessel is mainly for dealing with piloting through asteroid fields, close calls while canyon running and overall protecting from accidentally hitting things. Which is quite embarrassing considering the vessel’s low relative speed.

While the vessel looks sleek and the interior cabins are fit for a king (of a relatively unknown backwater planet), the vessel itself encounter numerous breakdowns from time to time due to poor wiring and cheap construction. A fully gutted and refitted Dolphin would achieve much better reliability.

The Luxury variant contains rather large cabins all with exterior viewports. The Business variant contains smaller cabins on two levels. The top level has the exterior viewports, the bottom level does not. The Cargo Variant is identical to the Business variant except the bottom level has been refitted for cargo storage.

The bridge is small and cramped for more than four people, another poor design feature. The vessel requires one pilot, one navigator, and one crewman in the bridge to operate at peak efficiency. At least one copilot is required to ensure all systems are functioning properly, scanners and sensors are running optimally and passenger cabins are monitored. The vessel is also capable of fitting small speeders and bikes in the main cargo hatch for exploration on breathable worlds.

LEGALITY​

Passenger License required for legal operations

INTENT​

This vessel bridges the gap between cheap transportation and personal yachts. This vessel also accomplishes the task of creating an explorer capable of long distance flights to map the galaxy and take adventurous passengers out into the black to see what has never been seen before. I intend for my main PC to use this as his “home base”, to explore the galaxy, and ferry new and interesting PCs along the way.

ADVANCED TECH
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Yes. Decent hyperdrive, exploration equipment and vessel size exceed standards. Recommend at least three threads. These may be bought throughout the galaxy but cost a hefty sum. They can be seen throughout the galaxy and their limited armament would make them prey for thrives and pirates. Getting a clean transponder code, and tying up lose ends would be necessary as well if acquired by less than legal means.

 

[Lloyd Gross]

It's been a while since I've made one of these. Go easy and I'll edit/nerf/ect. whatever is needed. I think this is generic but I'm not certain how the new system works so...yeah.

 

[Darasuum]

cargo capacity is usually judged based on weight not volume it takes up.

 

[Lloyd Gross]

I don't live in space and don't know how much space cargo weighs. :P ((now that's I'm thinking about it though...does it weigh anything?)) You got a guess?

 

[Darasuum]

Best to choose a corporation with a name. Go on the wikia or look at other ship submissions and pick one.

you don't need to list the dimensions in the passenger capacity, just the number of passengers. It's over complicating it if you do that.

Just state int the descriptions that land speeders/bikes/etc can be loaded and count towards the cargo capacity. Hangar bays are for actual ships to come and go while in transit.

doubt you'll get away with a mine layer. That's military grade stuff.

It's a big ship that can carry a lot but after you take a look at the stuff above it would probably require a tech plot of some length to acquire. It is like getting a commercial plane still and should not be easy.

basically if you are unsure of standards for ships, make sure you read the rules and check other submissions for reference.

 

[Lloyd Gross]

Made the changes except for the mine layer. Basically it’s to keep people off their tail long enough to make the jump to lightspeed. I’m still crossing my fingers hoping it gets through but I’ll be fine without as well. Thanks for the help!

 

[Darasuum]

Made the changes except for the mine layer. Basically it’s to keep people off their tail long enough to make the jump to lightspeed. I’m still crossing my fingers hoping it gets through but I’ll be fine without as well. Thanks for the help!

If your ship can only move 50 MGLT a mine layer isn't going to do squat. Ships will just fly around the mines and shot you. Mines are left in areas stationary. It would be better if you want to have an armament to have a laser cannon turret on the back or something.

 

[Lloyd Gross]

Now that makes sense!

 

[The Good Doctor]

I like the picture

You can also say that your ship has "Civilian Grade Shield Generator". Shields on here can use both particle and ray shields. And if you are getting rid of the minelayer, then might want to adjust the advanced tech section. I can see this thing being advanced anyway because it's a bigger ship with a faster hyperdrive than usual on the market. th AT section should be definite yes or no answer and you should give an approximate thread count it would take for a tech plot to get one of these things.

Cargo capacity is usually measured in tons, not dimensions. You can see this ship as an example of a freighter's cargo load.

 

[Lloyd Gross]

Adjustments made.

 

[AutoFox]

The escape pod capacity doesn't match the number of passengers in most configurations. Please adjust this.

Also, does this need to be its own thing? There are a couple of passenger liners you can reskin too.

 

[Lloyd Gross]

Escape pods- That was intentional. Kind of a Titanic situation, captain needs to sneak off on his own escape pod or go down with the ship deal. If that’s BM I’ll change it, but I thought it fit with the theme of poor construction design wrapped in a fancy bow.

I’m going to send you a PM about the second part. I’ve read the rules a few times and from yours and others responses I don’t think my moron brain understood it very well, so instead of showing it off here I’ll give you a private show. :P

 

[Lloyd Gross]

After much research, I saw that most captains require a passenger license to operate transports so I've adjusted my submission accordingly. This post is to bring attention to that change. Carry on.

 

[Lloyd Gross]

Hopefully these are the final edits:

Increased crew requirements

Reduced business and cargo variant passenger numbers

Added planetarium

Updated description to reflect changes to the vessel. And edited it for spelling/grammar issues.

Edited intent to reflect re-skin of CL7

Edited advanced section to give more details on the Dolphin.

 

[AutoFox]

I don't think you quite get the concept of a reskin here. If this were a reskin, it would be identical in terms of stats to the item it was a reskin of. Reskins, if properly done, do not need to be approved, and can be posted in gentech. However, this is very plainly not a reskin, as it has many features the "original" does not, in fact it is almost fundamentally different.

That said, we have other problems.

The crew is still far too small. The hospitality staff alone is not nearly large enough for even a craft with 40 people, let alone 100. Moreover, we don't tend to list crew that way; we try to boil it down to 2 numbers, minimal crew and optimal crew; you can parse out the onboard jobs and their individual numbers in the description if you want, that's what it's for. My suggestion for minimal crew would be 5 people, with an optimum crew of 25.

Please split up your description, by the way, into paragraphs by subject. That giant block of text is very hard to read. Plus, I would like more flavor text about this ship; why was this ship built, where, by who? Have examples of the class been involved in any events of note? Is there a primary operator who uses more of this type of ship than any other? Stuff like that. Be creative.

Finally, a "gambling cabin" would be called a casino.

 

[Lloyd Gross]

I don't think you quite get the concept of a reskin here.

The generic tech rules state: “This is a weapon, armor, or ship, or other tech that is functionally identical or completely inferior to an approved piece of tech, but has a different image or lore write-up.”

I believe the mix up occurred in my liberal interpretation of “inferior”. Regardless it’s been changed.

The crew is still far too small. My suggestion for minimal crew would be 5 people, with an optimum crew of 25.

Fixed.

Please split up your description, by the way, into paragraphs by subject. That giant block of text is very hard to read. Plus, I would like more flavor text about this ship; why was this ship built, where, by who? Have examples of the class been involved in any events of note? Is there a primary operator who uses more of this type of ship than any other? Stuff like that. Be creative.

Done.

Finally, a "gambling cabin" would be called a casino.

I was trying to shy away from the “casino” imagery. Regardless, I changed it to a game hall to better represent the room.

 

[AutoFox]

Much better.

Approved.