Sutehp's Starship And Starbase Interstellar Emporium

I know I’m tooting my own horn here, but Continuing Mission has just published a third article (in four days) of my starships and starbases. Today is the Sigma-class starbase and yesterday was my Watchtower-class starbase.

Still working on the Aviary and Alamo starbases, need another day or two. Stay tuned.

I’ve got an Alamo write-up sitting on my hard drive, too. My first station using the new rules.

I almost have the Alamo and Aviary done, but I had to pull the Deathgame from my GoogleDocs as I think I got its Scale wrong. Looking at the measurements and the diagrams of all three FASA ship silhouettes, I think the Deathgame is significantly smaller than the Aviary and especially smaller than the Alamo. I have to doublecheck, but I think the Deathgame is Scale 8 instead of Scale 10. Likewise, I think the Aviary is Scale 9 instead of 10 as well. (I think the Alamo is still Scale 10, though.)

With a bit of luck, I should have all three outposts ready in a day or two. (I know, I know, I said that twice already in the last four days. Cut me some slack.) :scream:

Why oh why couldn’t anyone have made a ship size comparison diagram that included the FASA ships with the canon ships? Welp, a man can dream… :sleeping:

Do the FASA ships list a length? Could compare them to the lengths for ships listed in the Utopia Planitia book. That should help with a size comparison, non-canonically speaking.

They do, indeed.

Yup, they all do. All three of the FASA starship books even have a page for ship scale silhouette recognition. Assuming all three pages are the same size scale (and they should be), I was able to determine that the Alamo (560 x 211 x 510 meters) is quite a bit larger than the Aviary (498 x 208 x 152 meters) and significantly larger than the Deathgame (330 x 230 x 109 meters). So it looks like my estimations of Scale in my previous post are correct (or as correct as I can estimate).

I just finished tinkering with all three FASA stations and they’re all in my starbase GoogleDocs folder. Follow the link in the OP to get them.

Just added the FASA Cochrane-class colony transport to my starship folder. Yeah, it’s a colony ship so it might not be very practical for an STA campaign, but it has some civilian uses like a big 370 meter long freighter that only needs a crew of 36 people or it can also be converted into a pleasure liner or even a mobile casino. I think the Cochrane could be a useful location for political intrigue or spy missions.

I think this was the easiest ship I ever designed; it hardly needed any revision and took less than a day to complete. :astonished:

My designed starship count now stands at 46. And that’s not even counting my starbases (another 8 designs)! That’s a lot for a single person, right?

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I did this on a whim, but I just created a FASA ship silhouette comparison PDF that has to-scale pictures of all the FASA Federation starships I converted to STA stats (and a few I haven’t yet) along with some canon TNG and TOS canon starships like the Galaxy, the Sovereign, the Nebula, the TOS-era Constitution (NOT the SNW visual retcon), and a few others. It’s pretty crude but I think all the pictures on the page are accurate to a millimeter or two. Download it here. Enjoy!

(As always, if this link goes dead for whatever reason, go to the OP and find it in the starships creation → PDF folder.)

EDIT: I might also do versions of the FASA Romulan and Klingon starships in the near future. Maybe.

Starship Design #47: the Ptolemy-class transport/tug! It took me a while to come up with a decent backstory for this ship, but the old Franz Joseph Star Fleet Technical Manual helped a lot for that. Here’s the starship PDF for the Ptolemy.

(As always, if these links go dead for whatever reason, go to the OP and find it in the starships creation → PDF folder or the Corey Belote Style Starship PDFs → Federation Starships PDF folder, respectively.)

So I’ve been away from STA for a while; I was busy with Real Life ™ and with lending my editing skills over at the Rancor Pit (the Star Wars D6 RPG forum) for the past few weeks. (Man, it’s tough being a fanboy for multiple franchises!) But I am happy to finally announce that my collaboration with Cory Belote and Chris Leland has resulted in Modiphius-style starbase sheet PDFs! Go to either the A4 or Letter-sized folder depending on your preference. There are multiple versions of the starbase sheet in both folders depending on the size station you need: 6 Breaches, 8 Breaches, 10 Breaches, 12 Breaches, 14 Breaches, and 16 Breaches.

If anyone out there needs anything bigger than a Scale 16 starbase (you monster!), you’re out of luck…for the time being at least. If demand for bigger starbases appears, I can always hit up Chris Leland for a new starbase sheet with 18 Breaches.

You’ll all be happy to see that the blank space on the first page allows you to import in a picture/image file of your starbase for your PDF. (And the 2nd page has a few easter eggs that Cory inserted for everyone’s benefit.)

Enjoy!

(See parallel announcement in the Cory Belote thread.)

Rather than start a brand new one-post thread for this announcement, I thought I’d just provide the update here, especially since this thread contains my link(s) to my Romulan War fan stuff.

The fan website The Romulan War has just made two new teaser videos over the last month (“Meet the Yorktown” and “Meet the Enterprise NX-01 Refit,” both of which can be seen here) in anticipation of their release of The Romulan War, Part 2. I’ve mentioned this fan site before as it’s the inspiration for all my Romulan War fan stuff. For fanmade content, it’s very well done and I recommend it all as inspiration for STA players who would like to do Star Trek: Enterprise era or Earth-Romulan War STA campaigns. No idea when Part 2 is coming out, but it looks like it’s going to be a real thing! (I had my doubts if they were ever going to finish Part 2 for a while there.)

Now you just have the nine styles of transport pods, such as Colony, Bulk freight, Bulk liquid, Hospital, Marines, Shuttle Carrier, and Battle Pod.

This is a Search and Rescue Medical shuttle (Like a Coast Guard Helo) for the 24th Century. (Copy right 1997 Mark Wilson from his Federation Shuttle Comparison Chart).

I would like to write it up for the PC playing the Doctor to have their “Special Thing” and be the focus of a Mission. One thing I liked about it was the contra grav rescue baskets / guerneys.