Klingon service/support/maintenance ship?

[Cdre Bob Wesley]

What do Klingons do with their space wreckage, especially if its still carrying weapons? I would think the Klingons would utilize some sort of service/support vessel in the field. Why go to a Klingon starbase, when you can send supplies straight to the front lines?

Am I making sense here?

Has anyone ever designed such a ship?

[PGoodman13]

I think the old FASA Klingon SRM had some vehicles of this nature, but I'm far from my books right now.

[Tomcat]

I think Tenders would be part of any fleet of ships - military or not - but a highly miltarized fleet would definitely make use of them. Support vessels of every kind would most likely be behind every advancing war fleet.

Now what they look like, and what their stats are?? Well, to me they are more of a story item and details would need to be minimal, unless of course they are being attacked. Even then, I would probably apply some kind of mook system and make it so that the attackers need only achieve 5 successful hits of Superior Success or more (or something like that), all the while trying to fend off the support vessels' guardians.

[The Tatterdemalion King]

Like this? Or this?

[PGoodman13]

Both your links are pointing to the same post on Doug's blog...but I'd forgotten those.... Time to gank them and see if I can figure out a few things.

[Cdre Bob Wesley]

Looking back at my post, it looks like I wasn't clear enough. I was thinking more like a full-blown Klingon salvage/field repair vessel.

[The Tatterdemalion King]

Looking back at my post, it looks like I wasn't clear enough. I was thinking more like a full-blown Klingon salvage/field repair vessel.

Hm. I suspect Klingon ships (the deep space operations vessels we see most often on the shows) might be outfitted to do a fair amount of that themselves. Klingon battlecruiser crews would definitely be equipped and trained for whole-ship salvage to bring back captured ships.

I guess the question is what kind of field repairs would be possible, and with what tools (does it need giant external equipment, or just lots of guys in EVA suits?), what kind of resources those repairs would take (does it need to haul a giant hold of extra hull plating with it? how much is carried by the tender, and how much by the vessel being repaired?), and how much time those repairs would take (i.e. is it faster to just haul it back to a starbase).

[PGoodman13]

The FASA Klingon SRM does feature a pair of tenders and a mobile repair facility, as well as a couple of freighters and a couple of transports. Some of them have even been translated to CODA stats, some of them here on these forums and a couple of them might be on the BTFF site (link in my sig), courtesy of K.G. Carlson. The names of the ships in question to help you go find them:

G3 Baka Re' freighter
G5 Tugboat transport
G6 Catapult transport
G8 Traders Game freighter
S4 Mender tender
S5 Healer tender
S8 Murph mobile repair facility
W2 Koreba warpshuttle
W4 Speedstar warpshuttle

Of these, the one that seems most like what you're looking for is the S8 Murph. Dunno if I've seen that particular one converted to CODA stats yet,

These are all 23rd century ships, as that was what FASA had to work with. Enjoy your hunting.

[Cdre Bob Wesley]

I guess the question is what kind of field repairs would be possible, and with what tools (does it need giant external equipment, or just lots of guys in EVA suits?), what kind of resources those repairs would take (does it need to haul a giant hold of extra hull plating with it? how much is carried by the tender, and how much by the vessel being repaired?), and how much time those repairs would take (i.e. is it faster to just haul it back to a starbase).

They're uh. . .trying to reactivate the planet killer from The Doomsday Machine and gain control of it.

Towing it with standard tractor beams would be a game mechanics violation for a ship of that size, correct? So I'm thinking some invasive service vehicle would be necessary to reactivate it.

I can't believe Kirk and crew just left it there!

[Cdre Bob Wesley]

These are all 23rd century ships, as that was what FASA had to work with. Enjoy your hunting.

Thanks for the lead Patrick. Appreciated.

[PGoodman13]

You could make it work, rules-wise, with multiple ships with multiple tractor beams, I think.

And there's no indication of what Kirk did with the thing afterward. It's not out of the question that he had Starfleet haul the thing away, or at least that Starfleet sent someone on their own after receiving his report. He was a lothario, to be sure, but he wasn't stupid.

You're aware of the FASA adventure A Doomsday Like Any Other that deals with this very notion, aren't you? And that stats for the wee beastie can be found on BTFF? (I don't know that I necessarily agree with those stats, but that's neither here nor there at the moment.)

[The Tatterdemalion King]

They're uh. . .trying to reactivate the planet killer from The Doomsday Machine and gain control of it.

In that case, I'd suggest a medical relief vessel, carrying a specialist in non-carbon based life...

[Cdre Bob Wesley]

And that stats for the wee beastie can be found on BTFF? (I don't know that I necessarily agree with those stats, but that's neither here nor there at the moment.)

Got it already.

You've been a great help to my campaign group for well over a month now. The character-building guide is glued to the inside back cover of my PG.

[The Tatterdemalion King]

Got it already.

You've been a great help to my campaign group for well over a month now. The character-building guide is glued to the inside back cover of my PG.

You could just rip out the offending pages of the PG and insert the guide instead. In fact, it could even be made to look like the pages themselves... Oh, wait, no, I'm having 'CODA 2.0' flashbacks... aaarrgh...

[selek]

In that case, I'd suggest a medical relief vessel, carrying a specialist in non-carbon based life...

And very skilled in carbon-based psychiatry.

Attempting to reactivate that thing is just plain nuts....

The TNG novel Vendetta offers some non-canonical insights into the lunatics who built it in the first place...