Liberty Ship
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Winner of the "Best Ship or Deckplan" category of the Zhodani Base Awards 2019!
Necessity is the mother of invention¸ and war brings about many necessities. In the 2230's¸ Humanity fought a war for its liberty and survival against the mighty Reticulan Empire. Faced with a numerically superior¸ technologically advanced foe¸ Terran forces required highly efficient logistics to fuel their war effort and turn back the tide. Such logistics necessitated simple¸ cheap¸ efficient freighters and troop ships to carry war materials and troops between the stars. Hence¸ the L'Ouverture-Class Liberty Ship was born - an economic wartime freighter. It lacks any frills or bells and whistles. It comes to work¸ to carry freight and troops. That's it.
Once the War ended¸ the Terran Merchant Marine sold many of these ships - no longer required for military logistics due to widespread demobilization - on the civilian markets. Many serve as independent or corporate merchants. However¸ a few star-pirate gangs acquired such ships for cheap and modified them to serve as their bases of operation.
This booklet details five variants of the Liberty Ship - a 1¸000-ton freighter intended for use with the Cepheus Engine rules and other Sci-Fi 2D6 SRD-compatible rules.
The variants include the original freighter; a cryogenic troop transport; an armed variant; a frontier merchant variant; and an illegally modified jump-capable pirate base!
All variants come with full Cepheus Engine statistics and high-resolution deck plans based on a 1.5m grid. Additionally¸ the booklet provides a few variant ship rules for the Cepheus Engine¸ including rules for purchasing second-hand Liberty Ships. Finally¸ it offers one specific¸ game-ready Liberty Ship¸ the Gilded Claw¸ complete with its game statistics and a fully detailed crew!
Note that while the default setting for this booklet is Stellagama Publishing's These Stars Are Ours! universe¸ the ship itself¸ complete with game statistics and deck plans¸ is easily usable with any other Cepheus Engine or Sci-Fi 2D6 SRD setting.