What Ships Do You Use?

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Originally posted by Steve Long:
Time for an impromptu and utterly unscientific survey.

1. a. What ship(s) do the PCs in your series use?

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In the start I used a Nova class USS Farscape, to create a challenge, but eventually the challenge was too great and the poor little ship got beat up bad. So off went the Captain to a new Intrepid class named for her little Nova (she had managed to pull a Kirk/Picard like save the universe bit).

The rest of the campaign moved on to the USS Endeavour (Nebula) with the promise that some day they will get to be on a Sovereign named USS Lexington http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif

Recently Captain Lindsay (Farscape) took command of the USS Prometheus to undertake a mission to discover the whereabouts and fate of the USS Voyager.

In the future, before the Sovie, Captain Stocker (Endeavour) and crew will hop onto the Dauntless to find the Prometheus, Voyager and Equinox. http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif

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b. Did they pick it, or did the Narrator?

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I picked them all except the Nebula, as the players could never decide, but they all agreed on that one.

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c. In either case, why that ship? What features about it make it so appealing and/or useful?

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I originially chose the Nova as I wanted a small intimate crew. When the ship got badly beaten by Romulans, they were upgraded to an Intrepid, slightly bigger, but still intimate. When Capatin Lindsay's player and I agreed to move the character to a private game (way too much blue booking) we moved to the Endeavour, a much bigger ship, but it allows really big missions or intense fights that they don't have to run away froma ll the time. Still all said I miss the NOVA http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/frown.gif

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2. What ships frequently appear in your series as adversaries? If you're the Narrator, why do you use those particular ships?

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Well I use a lot of Ambassador class ships and Steamrunner's in Starfleet.

So far the enemies and aliens have been pretty much standard fare with no new classes, yet http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif

Soon I will use the Kazon ships to represent the Tzenkethi for an upcoming storyline http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif


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Ferengi Rule Of Acquisition #76: Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.

I really meant to reply to this but never got around to it...
---> 1. a. What ship(s) do the PCs in your series use?
b. Did they pick it, or did the Narrator?
c. In either case, why that ship? What features about it make it so appealing and/or useful? <---

First LUG-Trek game was Galaxy-class Quetzalcoatl. They transferred in short order to her sister-ship the Icarus after a brief stint in Starfleet Intelligence. I picked Quetzalcoatl for its familiarity - it was the first RPG for most of the players and I wanted them to be comfortable. Many away missions were handled on Danube-class Runabouts, for both familiarity and isolation from the massive resources of the ship.

The dynamics with NPCs didn't go too well. The characters later wound up on Icarus. I made this one up to the players - we toyed with the idea of a Defiant, Miranda, or Ambassador, but the players liked the familiarity of the Galaxy-class. Plus Icarus' Ten-Forward was a wood-panelled traditional Irish pub. http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif This ship worked much better. The game ended when one of the players left and gamemaster wanting to play a Star Wars game after seeing episode I.

Our second LUG-Trek game was set aboard a refit Defiant-class, U.S.S. H.G. Wells (renamed from Avenger, in the aftermath of the Dominion War. This game was designed as a miniseries, with the ship bouncing around time, space, and parallel dimensions, with a crew made up of Starfleet officers, accompanied by some surprise passengers - a group of smugglers, some Romulans, and some Klingons. I as narrator wanted a smaller ship so the crew could be memorable, especially with the tension I wanted between the separate groups forced into working together. Worked out very well. In the end one of the players who was barely familiar with DS9 at the start of the game became an obsessive fan, constantly wanting to borrow tapes with the Dominion War or Defiant featured prominently. http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif

We played a few games aboard the Constitution-class U.S.S. Icarus, NCC-1017, concurrent with the classic TV show. The name was chosen by me as a link to our original TNG game. The class was chosen by the players - we contemplated setting it in the movies or TV show periods, and a number of ships were on the table - Miranda, Constitution were the big two. The familiarity of the classic Enterprise of the TV show was a big selling point. Plus everyone in my group loved DS9's "Trials and Tribblelations". ("Don't you know anything about the 23rd century? Command officers wore gold, operations wore red..." "And women wore less" - Dan's jaw drops as Jadzia shows off her classic uniform...)

This one was fun. It was an important ship, but the technology was so much more limited than the TNG game, forcing a lot more thinking. We'll be going back to this one, but for now...


We are in the middle of a special miniseries game set during the Dominion War, aboard a B'Rel class Bird of Prey, bortaSwI - Avenger, feel free to correct my Klingon... http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif We came up with the concept together for a special mini-campaign. We're really enjoying the small crew, tiny accomodations, and lack of Starfleet regs.

2. What ships frequently appear in your series as adversaries? If you're the Narrator, why do you use those particular ships?

Hmmm... I tend to avoid Starship combat as narrator - put it in the background since it doesn't seem to work too well in our games. That said, the most common ship for baddies in our game has got to be the Dominion Bug-ship. They are just so cool and so much fun to skirmish with, especially from a Defiant or B'rel. http://www.trekrpg.net/Board/ubb/smile.gif

Also featured prominently are Klingon Birds of Prey.

Why all of them? Cause everyone recognizes them. As much as I like digging up obscure ships, I find that familiarity is a priceless tool for the narrator.


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The ships my characters use are usually created by me, sometimes by them, because they prefer to play non starfleet characters and there aren't spacedock stats for small civilian vessels.
The opponents ships are also created by me because they do a lot of business with minor powers. With the exception of two campain's the player response to seeing almost any ship from an SRM would be to run.
An SRM for the minor powers, and many have been mentioned, would be a good book for outside submission's which could then be put out as a netbook.

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Originally posted by Steve Long:
1. a. What ship(s) do the PCs in your series use?
b. Did they pick it, or did the Narrator?
c. In either case, why that ship? What features about it make it so appealing and/or useful?

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My campaign centers on the Ambassador class starship, USS Discovery. It was chosen by the Narrator (me) after the previous Discovery was destroyed in action by the PCs. (It had been captured by the Romulans, so naturally they capture the Romulan ship in turn and used it to destroy the Discovery.)

As for why, at the time (which was pre-LUG Trek) the Ambassador class seemed a natural progression from an Excelsior class.

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2. What ships frequently appear in your series as adversaries? If you're the Narrator, why do you use those particular ships?

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We're running in the early days of the Dominion War, so the main adversaries are Jem'Hadar and Cardassians. (One of my PCs just picked up Gul Dukat as an Enemy.)

I ran two ST campaigns (one still running). The first was a Next Generation game set in the Dominion War time. The second is a DS9 game that started 6 months after the Dominion War ended. So, here are my answers:

1a) They used a Nebula class named the USS Valkyrie (loved this name). The characters played the bridge crew, captain, first officer, and major officers (engineer, doc).
1b) Since they are based on DS9, it's the USS Defiant. They were also given a smaller ship, the USS Talon prototype, named the USS Talon (see the Players Guide).

2a) The players and I talked about it, but I as the narrator made the final decision.
2b) The TV show decided that. :-) I added in the Talon.

3a) Most of the enemy ships were Dominion.
3b) At first, they encountered pirate ships, Orions, and some Dominion. Recently, they have been fighting an alien race of ships that look like the shadow ships from Babylon 5. They have also encountered the Taurhai dragon ships from the Romulan boxed set.

1) What ship we use?
> Up until recently the campaign vessel was the USS Atlantic, a Galaxy Class. She served for over 5 years. When she kicked the bucket -quite heroically- saving the party's bacon in a space battle against Breen- and renegade Klingon warships, we were assigned (after an obligatory court-martial for the captain; hey, a ship WAS destroyed on her watch)to the USS Phoenix Reborn, a Sovereign Class vessel straight out of San Francisco Orbital Spacedock.

2)Who picked it?
> The USS Atlantic was a holdover from a previous campaign years ago, at the time the decision was shared by the then-gamemaster and the captain-player. The USS Phoenix Reborn was thought up by the gamemaster who ran the game in which the Atlantic was destroyed. His main reason for picking a Sovereign Class is that it's simply a mega-cool starship, and that the player group had deserved a reward after a tough game.

3) What are the enemy vessels we most often encounter?
> In reverse chronological order:

- Vor'cha and K'Vort Classes (those renegade Klingon forces);
- Breen whatchamacallits;
- Jem'Hadar ships [various];
- Borg scout craft;
- Sheliak vessels;
- Species 8472 bioships. Relax, we didn't beat THOSE, we made with the parley-stuff ;-);
- D'Deridex Class Romulan Warbirds (quite popular as Threat ships, from the looks of this thread!);
- Borg Cube(s);
- Legaran "Praying Mantis" Class battlecruisers (invented by GM)

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Originally posted by Steve Long
Time for an impromptu and utterly unscientific survey.

1. a. What ship(s) do the PCs in your series use?
b. Did they pick it, or did the Narrator?
c. In either case, why that ship? What features about it make it so appealing and/or useful?

2. What ships frequently appear in your series as adversaries? If you're the Narrator, why do you use those particular ships?

Steve Long

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1. a. i. The USS Challenger is, as most know the prototype of the upgrade for the future Enterprise in "All Good Things...", a modified Galaxy-class.
ii. The USS Preye is a standard Galaxy-class.
iii. The USS Chronos is an Apollo-class.
iv. The USS Vo'kavra is a Sabre-class.
v. The USS Trailblazer, a Deep Space Surveyor of my own design though a buddy is creating the deck plans.

b. I have picked all the designs though an upcoming mini-campaign will be heavily influenced by players' desires.
c. In the case of the Preye and Challenger, they fit the needs of the campaign and had the benefit of having deck plans. Both of these campaigns will eventually resume. The Chronos and the Vo'kavra games also fit for what the campaign needed as the series had a far more limited scope. The Trailblazer is being designed for a campaign to explore a sector in depth. I wanted a smaller ship for a more personal feel but one that could independently operate for great lengths of time without support. The Intrepid was a bit too powerful and the Nova-class was way too weak. The ship was built using Spacedock.

2. i. Challenger campaign has faced pretty well everything there is to face including some home designs. Most prominently, it has faced Dominion and allied ships as the campaign started at the beginning of the war, a couple of Borg Spheres, and for most of the campaign various Romulan and Taurhai ships. The campaign will be entering a new phase this summer.
ii. The Preye faced a number of Gorn defense cruisers, a couple of Romulan Warbirds, a pirate vessel and a Doomsday Machine. It was a three-episode game that is in consideration of being expanded.
iii. The Chronos dealt with pirates and a couple Cardassian vessels.
iv. The Vo'kavra dealt with all home-brewed ships though most of the time it was Kzinti.
v. The Trailblazer has yet to face any as that game is still in the design process.

I used those ships as they were what was needed for the focus of the campaign.

I plan to eventually run a Romulan game but that is a few months off. I am certainly looking forward to the Romulan SRV.

Regards,
CKV.

1. a. What ship(s) do the PCs in your series use?

We used four so far over our seasons:
USS Discovery NCC-62049, Nebula class
USS Vanguard NCC-48237, Ambassador class
USS Vanguard NCC-48237-A, Galaxy class
USS Ascendant NX-76620, Prototype.

b. Did they pick it, or did the Narrator?

The first three I chose as Narrator, the last reflects a wish expressed by the players to have their own ship.

c. In either case, why that ship? What features about it make it so appealing and/or useful?

The Nebula I went with because it was the starting ship in the TNG corebook...
The Ambassador I liked because it looked cool, had a nice history and was big although not overpowered.
When it was destroyed, the Galaxy seemed a logical evolution.
The Ascendant is much smaller but has some unique features (like the holographic intelligence), a reduced crew and has powerful tactical arrays, all of which appealed to my players.

2. What ships frequently appear in your series as adversaries? If you're the Narrator, why do you use those particular ships?

It really depends.
In our first story arc (seasons 1-4) I used decommissioned Starfleet ships because the opponent was an organization infiltrating Starfleet.
Now, they're facing a multifaceted threat in the form of drug smuggling; so I'm using more cargo designs, like Orion, but also Kzinti raiders, self-made.

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Originally posted by Steve Long
Time for an impromptu and utterly unscientific survey.

1. a. What ship(s) do the PCs in your series use?
b. Did they pick it, or did the Narrator?
c. In either case, why that ship? What features about it make it so appealing and/or useful?

2. What ships frequently appear in your series as adversaries? If you're the Narrator, why do you use those particular ships?

Steve Long

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1.a. our game will start soon, and it's on the 1701-B
b. I, the Narrator, chose it, with nods of approval from the players-to-be
c. because I love the Excelsior-class design for it's great lines, and I bought the Playmates 1701-B back when and so it will make a great prop to set in the middle of the table, and because it's my first ST game and I want to make it feel 101% Trek, so why not play on the Enterprise?

2. Not sure what ships they'll be up against frequently, but probably Romulan and Cardassian.

They'll probably interact with Oberths and Mirandas on a regular basis.

The long-running campaign is set on a Galaxy -- mostly because everyone knows what the sets look like, have an idea of what the thing can do, and because I wanted the 'town in space' feel that would allow any kind of character and mission.

The new campaign is two different groups that never will meet, but have an effect on each other -- a self-made merchant vessel based loosely on some of the initial designs for the Defiant, and a Starfleet diplomatic/intelligence group based on an Akira -- because it's the state of the art, shiny, ass-kickin' ship. Just the thing for the Romulan border.

Oh, I just wanted to pass on kudos from a bunch of Hero System fans I met in the LGS the other day. They say, "Great job, Steve!"

Well they have had other ships, but the most recent crew went this way.

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a; Started with the USS Ranger. Ranger class heavy scout redesign for the TNG, post DW period. Moved up to the USS Wanderer, Steamrunner class and will now move on to the USS Proxima, Excelsior-B class.(All sigh as they think how wonderful the actual deck plans of an excelsior would be instead of just the cutaway.:( )

b;I are narrator, so I pick the ships. Only occaisionally would Starfleet ever allow a skipper to choose his ship. Though a potential skipper can turn down commands till he gets what he wants. Good bloody luck, turn the big chair down enough and they stop offering.

c; I always loved the Ranger class from the Movie era FASA stuff. The Wanderer had been a PC ship from a previous group and I thought it would be nice for the new characters to chat about old characters exploits. The Proxima....I pulled it outta the hat.

2. That's always a toss up. I really try not to use canon vessels so that my players are never quite able to guess what I am up to. But I use alot of Cardassian ships and pirate vessels that are fairly stock to represent a modified basic craft. The big enemies use vessels that the PCs would be wise to run from usually, since a single ship won't do the job....unless I want it to.

Captain Taggert, the Ranger redesign that you used is that one of your own or the one from this site?

Regards,
CKV.

The campaign is a station based little series, but the players are assigned the following

1 Defiant class Heavy escort (U.S.S. Herod Aggripa) (Station security)

2 Talon Class Scouts (Goshawk, Raptor) (the system so so full of radioactive garbage that the Talons are needed to set up nav bouys).

This was decided by the GM for a) makes getting the players from place to place easier than putting an entire starship into situations for which it's not really nessesary. b) sometimes the players are sent off on operations that are 'questionable' and loose lips sink ships, Gentlemen.

As to adversaries, it tends to vary from Romulan ships or various classes, to privateers/pirates, the occasional fruitbat dictatorship on the border area, as well as the occasional Ancient device.

But to offset this, the players can call upon Allied vessels to make sure things don't get too ugly.

BC, is the Agrippa named after the renaissance fencing master?

Inigo Montoya: Unless you've studied your Agrippa, which, as you can see... I have!

My TNG/DS9 game is on the USS Yorktown, a Galaxy Class

TOS Movie is on the USS Hornet, Carrier as can be seen on Starshipschematics.com, its the one with the fighter's on the outside of the ship

I picked these ships due to coolnes and deck plan availability:D

Sarge

Actually, the name was in referrence to King Herod of Persia who invaded Greece.

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my bad.....King Herod of Judea.

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1. a. What ship(s) do the PCs in your series use?
b. Did they pick it, or did the Narrator?
c. In either case, why that ship? What features about it make it so appealing and/or useful?

2. What ships frequently appear in your series as adversaries? If you're the Narrator, why do you use those particular ships?

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Theyre on an Oberth in the timeframe of ST:Insurrection. i picked it because i wanted them to feel very unimportant and powerless in the beginning.

The oberth is small enough to be managable.

As adversaries, Cardassians. So far, two Galor class ships. It was a good way to keep them from trying to fight out of the first episode.

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1. a. What ship(s) do the PCs in your series use?
b. Did they pick it, or did the Narrator?
c. In either case, why that ship? What features about it make it so appealing and/or useful?

2. What ships frequently appear in your series as adversaries? If you're the Narrator, why do you use those particular ships?

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1) a. USS Fortitude NX-80000 It looks like an Akira, but the two pylons coming out of the saucer have had their length shortened so that the impulse engine is over the aft of the saucer and the nacelles are under it, giving it a rather Miranda-ish profile.
b. Narrator chosen using a Size 6 and some of the new tech found in the thread by the same name.
c. It has to do with a revisit (since I'm in a new location and have new players) of the Sto-vo-gnan.

2) Brel, Vorcha, K'vort, Galor, Ferengi Marauder, and three new threat races with ship classes that translate loosely as, Scorpion, Web-Closer, Winged Passion (an insectoid race; a manipulative political race; and a psionically gifted race with the spelljamer like ships respectively).

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a. Upgraded Orion Wanderer Class Blockade Runner
b. They picked it
c. They liked the design and fell. It’s a versatile Pirate/Merchant Ship, so just perfect for our Pirate Campaign.

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Starfleet, Various local Defence Forces (Cardassians, Bajorans, Talarians…) Merchants, Pirates.

Well, they are what a Pirate is likely to encounter.

I am soon to be running a TOS-Era campaign, and will be using a Mk II Constitution Class (we are using FASA rules, as we are on a retro kick at the moment!)

Cheers

Tas

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1. a. What ship(s) do the PCs in your series use?
b. Did they pick it, or did the Narrator?
c. In either case, why that ship? What features about it make it so appealing and/or useful?

2. What ships frequently appear in your series as adversaries? If you're the Narrator, why do you use those particular ships?

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1a. Excelsior class, 2379 Refit
1b. I picked it.
1c. I've always liked the lines of the Excelsior, and I wanted the PCs to start out with something not top of the line so that when the ship goes down in a ball of fire at the end of Season Two, they'll be appreciative of the "new tech" they get as a replacement.

2. Dominion ships, Dominon member ships, and "other races" - it's set in the Gamma Quadrant 2380, and they will be exploring "south" of the Dominion under a treaty of neutrality and nonagression.

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a) We use the USS Photon, first of the Photon Class
b) The Narrator used an design from one player
c) We searched for a small ship where the players could be the main crew despite being young. So we developed the tiny Photon Class (search this forum, it's there!)
It is small, modular and fast.

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The Photon Class is not very combat-oriented but we tricked and fled from a warbird and battled a dominion atack ship.

Hey Assassin,
I did up the CODA stats for that "little" ship :) If I remeber correctly.

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Hey Assassin,
I did up the CODA stats for that "little" ship :) If I remeber correctly.

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You remember correctly!

AT the Moment we wait to continue our campain and further the fame of our little ship.

I use in my fan fiction two ships- A Nebula class -USS KHE SAHN and my new ones -the USS NAVARONE & the USS LUMUMBA -Both Akira class- All the stories are set in the post Dominion War era.

The ships I've run in my two campaigns are the Akira-class ship USS Kurosawa (TNG campaign) and the Constitution-class ship USS Indefagtable (sp?) (TOS campaign).

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Originally posted by BouncyCaitian
my bad.....King Herod of Judea.

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I can't believe I missed this when it was new. You mean that your USS Agrippa wasn't named after Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus Augustus' admiral? :D ;) :D

1a)
NX-class UES Frontier NX-02 (my series isn't close to canon)
1b)
I gave it to the players since the are very unexperienced with Star Trek
1c)
It was the natural choice for a Enterprise-era campagin.

2. Vulcan and Andorian ships.
Intrepid type ships as allies in a few episodes.

1a. the Nova-class
1b. I picked it (Narrator)
1c. I picked the Nova because it's small, we're going to investigate the Beta Quadrant and it's more like a scientific mission and the Nova is a science vessel.
I really liked the Sovereign but that was too big and since the Nova looks a lot like the Sovereign it's an additional reason why I chose it. And since there are deckplans of the Nova, that makes it easier to locate the PC's and the players like the deckplans a lot.

2. Since I'm going to start soon they didn't saw any ship yet, but I'm planning to introduce a ship I invented (of a race I invented), the D'Deridex class Warbird, other Romulan ships, a Hirogan Huntership.
I want the Romulans to take part of it because I like the Romulans.
The Hirogans are quite interesting and I read somewhere that they're also in the Beta Quadrant.
Maybe I'm going to give them an encounter with a very small Borg vessel but I'm not certain about that.

Excelsior -class cruiser, with series starting in 2301; things with the Klingons are still unstable, things with the Romulans are the same as they ever were, and a lot of the TNG species have either just been contacted (e.g., Breen, Bolians, Betazoids, etc.,) or are about to be discovered. So far, there hasn't been any ship-to-ship combat involving the players, partly because I don't own the "Starships" book yet, partly b/c I'm still working out how to do such combat in a PBEM game.

Also my solution to the problem of getting the junior officer characters to have control of their destiny: they are assigned to a large, warp-capable shuttlecraft, for use when the starship is otherwise occupied with more pressing matters, and the characters are assigned a "minor" mission (ferrying diplomats, evacuating science teams, conducting secret intelligence operations, etc.) Below are the stats and a brief write-up... feel free to use as necessary.

(Incidentally, it was necessary to slightly modify the standard Excelsior base stats to accomodate an additional shuttle bay, so that it could field these larger shuttlecraft, along with the other standard issue shuttles.)

SHUTTLECRAFT

LS-52H Armed Transport
Size/Decks: 2/1
Length/Height/Beam: 20/4/5
Crew: 3 flight crew: helm/navigation, weapons/defense (these two positions both face forward, and the two can both be handled by one person in an emergency), and sensors/communication, and 1 cargo/transporter chief + 50 passengers OR 35 fully-equipped combat troops OR 1 cargo unit. Large aft cargo doors mean airdrops can be made; airlock for EVA in vacuum/hostile environments.

TACTICAL DATA
Phasers: Type II Phasers (x2/A)
Penetration: 2/2/2/0/0
Deflector Shield: CIDSS-2(C)
Protection/Threshold: 14/4

PROPULSION DATA
Impulse: RSM (.75c) (D)
Warp: LN-64 mod3 (7/9/12) (D)

OPERATIONAL DATA
Atmosphere Capable: YES
Cargo Units: 2 (if no passengers
Life Support: Class 1(B)
Operations System: Class 3 (D)
Sensor System: Class 1 (+1/B)
Separation: NO
Shuttlebay: NO
Shuttlecraft: NO
Tractor Beams: NO
Transporters: 1 std, 1 person only, located in recessed alcove near flight deck.

MISC

Maneuver Modifiers: -1C, +1H, -1T
Traits: NO

NOTES: The LS (Landing Ship) 52 was constructed by National Astronautics, Inc., on contract to Starfleet in 2254. During the Axanari Conflict of the 2240s, it had become apparent that troops beaming in to a hostile area were vulnerable to fire while materializing. The Admiralty estimated that 65% of the casualties occurred while troops were beaming in. Infantry landing doctrine was thus shifted from extensive use of transporters to an emphasis on an atmospheric landing (either via shuttle or parachute insertion) to secure a "space-head", supplemented by follow-on forces either shuttled or beamed in. The LS-52 was created to meet this new mission profile.

Despite a 30-year-old design, the 52 has proven very reliable under countless harsh operating conditions over the years. It is considered the workhorse of the "blue sky" fleet: it carries a significant number of cargo or passengers, can carry them long distances at high rates of speed, thanks to its recently-refitted LN-64 Warp Drive. The interiors remain outdated, and so orange seat cushions, bulky consoles, and, generally, poor ergonomics are the norm in the ship. Nevertheless, it is the only ship in the fleet capable of landing an entire platoon of troops in a small field under fire, provide limited cover fire for those troops, and to extract wounded troops using its one-pad transporter.

Thanks to the success of the 52 with Starfleet, National Astronautics began manufacturing the ship for export. Most planetary Defense Forces within the Federation use the ship as their prime long-distance atmosphere-capable cargo carrier. A variant called the NA-1152 ("eleven-fifty-two") is sold without armament (but with sensors and shields) for civilian purchasers.

In addition to the 1152 civilian variant, National Astronautics manufactures numerous military option packages: LS-52, 52A, 52B, 52C, 52D, 52E, 52F, 52G and 52H. The 52H is the most advanced ship (and also the most expensive,) designed in 2290 and equipped with the LN-64 Warp Drive. Other variants have other packages of weapons and shields based on economics, mission profile, and age. (The 52A, for example, was built exclusively for the Andorian Defense Force in the 2270s, and is equipped with photon torpedoes instead of phasers, with a trade-off in reduced operations and life support effectiveness).

The last 52H was constructed in 2298. Although the fleet has no plans to procure additional craft (selection of a replacement for the 52H is currently under consideration by the Fleet Special Projects Committee, headed by R/ADM Rittenhour,) spare parts are plentiful, and National Astronautics continues to produce the NA-1152 for civilian markets as of 2301.

Concerning missions, it would be possible for corporations, merchants, smugglers, pirates, terrorists, guerilla groups, hostile powers, or even private (wealthy) individuals to purchase (legally) the civilian NA-1152 (or, illegally purchase/steal/hijack a military variant.) Given the popularity of design and availability of OE non-OEM parts, modifications of the ship are the norm, not the exception when the '52 is in private hands.

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1. a. What ship(s) do the PCs in your series use?

My PCs are a Section 31 Trouble Shooting Team. Every adventure they have a new ID and a new posting. Sometimes they aren’t even Starfleet. However since Peter David suggested that Admiral Nechyev was head of Section 31 the PCs are occasionally bailed out by the Admiral’s Flagship, the USS Gorkon

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I have read the entire New Frontier Series up to this point, but this fact I must have missed! When did Peter David say (OK suggested) tthat Nechayev is the head of Section 31? Which novel?! :confused:

In my Star Trek: Atlantis campaign we started off with my CODA version of the LUGTrek Niagara class fast cruiser (Stats can be seen here: http://forum.trek-rpg.net/showthread...46#post150746). When my players behave and become a little more advanced (and manage to get their ship destroyed!) I will assign them to an Intrepid class explorer...

We are still using the same ship in our group that i created for the game last year. A Hawkeye-class Science Vessel it is posted on this page.

http://forum.trek-rpg.net/showthread.php?t=11286

Once we got out of space dock we began exploring the farthest reaches.

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Originally Posted by Steve Long

Time for an impromptu and utterly unscientific survey.

1. a. What ship(s) do the PCs in your series use?
b. Did they pick it, or did the Narrator?
c. In either case, why that ship? What features about it make it so appealing and/or useful?

2. What ships frequently appear in your series as adversaries? If you're the Narrator, why do you use those particular ships?

Steve Long

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1) The party I have is romulan. The ship is a T'rasus-class light starbird (from the Way of D'era box set). I picked it.

What made it appealling was the fact that it was powerful, but balanced for the players.

2) The types of ships that appear in the game is mostly romulan. This campaign is a political campaign. But there have been a few Federation and klingon ships as well.