Howdy! I am a fairly new member of the TML, but I have a few
questions for those of you out there. I just purchased the SGS
25mm deckplans for the Empress Marava Far Trader and noticed
some very interesting things.
First off, the A2 far trader they describe displaces 400 tons! The
stats given in the book, although supposedly taken from the Imperial
Encyclopedia, are roughly as follows:
400 tons, TL13, Power = Fusion 1665Mw.
Loco is Jump-2, Maneuver-1.
4 hardpoints are mounted, along with a 1/bis computer.
10 staterooms and 4 low berths
Fuel 1314 kl, Cargo 1188 kl, purif plant, etc.
What really bothers me about this, however, is the fact that the
deckplans are directly lifted from Supp. 7 Traders and Gunboats,
where the Empress Marava class was a 200 ton Far Trader! Thus, the
book gives deckplans for a 200-ton ship and stats for a 400-ton ship.
What I would like to know is if this "quality" is typical of all of
the deckplans produced by SGS.
One other note --- the deckplans come with a story, not an adventure
as I assumed from reading the blurb on the back. Also, the stats given
in the booklet are about 800 kl shy of 400 tons (at least from the
quick computations I did).
Sorry to whine, but I had to say something. This kind of quality
really upsets me.
Stuart Daniel
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