| By Alan Trevor (Thyrm) on Wednesday, October 22, 2025 - 11:31 am: Edit |
John,
I suspect that is, in fact, the intent. But I posted here anyway just so people would be aware of the contradiction. Note that the ship entries in Module G3 have a "War Ship Status" column. So if you look up the Fed BB, for example, you see that it has Status of "CNJ" (Conjectural). But the fighter entries have no "Status" so if you look up the S-IVM, you find statistics for it but have no way of knowing it didn't actually exist. The only way to know that would be to check the Tholian Master Starship Book.
| By Frank Lemay (Princeton) on Wednesday, October 22, 2025 - 08:24 pm: Edit |
Question re Fed IPL Y177,
In CL 24, the Bpv shows 50 CBpv but in G3, it indicates 65 CBpv.
Does anyone know which is the true CBpv ?
Thanks.
Cheers
Frank
| By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Thursday, October 23, 2025 - 07:06 am: Edit |
Frank,
The base Federation POL was revised up to 50 BPV (many a long year ago), and Module G3 was published well after Captain's Log #24; Occam's Razor puts the IPL at 65 BPV.
| By Ken Kazinski (Kjkazinski) on Sunday, November 02, 2025 - 11:16 am: Edit |
Frank,
SPP verified the IPL BPV is 65 on 2/13/2010 19:32:00
| By Russ Simkins (Madcowak) on Sunday, November 09, 2025 - 06:37 pm: Edit |
Small freighter "in ballast" (no pods, skids, ducktails, just control and engine) move cost?
Found a post that seemed to infer there is an SSD somewhere but I haven't found it. CL#23 has move cost of unpublished F-S + McCargo pods down to 1/5 so shouldn't be more than that.
| By Frank Lemay (Princeton) on Sunday, November 09, 2025 - 10:11 pm: Edit |
Jessica and Ken, thank you.
Cheers
Frank
| By Stewart Frazier (Frazikar3) on Sunday, November 09, 2025 - 10:52 pm: Edit |
Russ, That might be a good ballpark as a normal small freighter is 0.33, a harbor tug [(R1.50) one power skid] is 0.25. So with no skid, might be 0.2 (no official SSD).
| By Robert Russell Lender (Rusman) on Monday, November 10, 2025 - 01:20 am: Edit |
I have an SSD from the online Small Freighter In Ballast has a move cost of: 1/4.
Not 100% sure but I believe the SSD was posted in the online entry of one of the Starfleet Times or Starletters.
| By Russ Simkins (Madcowak) on Monday, November 10, 2025 - 04:30 am: Edit |
Rusman, you were right. Star Fleet Times #43 (1999) has a small freighter in ballast with ducktail. Move cost shown as 1/4. Issue came out between CL#18 and CL#19
CL#23 (2001) talks about F-S with 120 meter (15 cargo box) or 80 meter pod (10 cargo box) with 1/4 and 1/5 move costs respectively. Can't think of a good reason the rig would be faster with a small pod than no pod at all. Maybe the ducktail causes extra drag without the cargo pod wind deflector! 
Also mentions two intriguing data points: only 10% of F-S in Y165 have skids but that doesn't mean they don't become a fad in GW years. Also mentions engine upgrades:
Quote:"At about the same time as the new commercial twin-engine drive modules, the so-called “Military” drive modules appeared. These had more power, and were more capable of maneuvers and long-distance travels. These were fairly rare creatures (mostly owned by governments) until much later, when the birth of auxiliaries during and after the Four Powers War spurred wider production and made them economical for civilian use. As time went by, more and more “civilian” freighters had these larger engines. At the end of the General War, some freighters had even larger engines (two five-box engines for the small freighter and two ninebox engines for the large freighter) which gave them the power to operate at maximum “combat” speeds and freed them from the limits imposed by commercial-grade engines."
| By Robert Russell Lender (Rusman) on Monday, November 10, 2025 - 09:47 pm: Edit |
Hey Russ, I sent you an Email that might be helpful for your freighter combinations.
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