Godstar/Clement Sector campaign Revival Using The Quick Ship File: Starguard System Defence Boat

 The USS Evening Star a Trade Empire class ship belonging to  the First Heaven Mercantile Company (FHMC) is on course to be received at the Tasho Station. The PC's are aboard a Starguard System Defence Boat as mercenaries. 

 The whole cloth idea here of involving the First Heaven Mercantile Company (FHMC) is to try to revive my Godstar/Clement Sector rpg campaign. Which for a while was highly successful.The idea is that the Hyades sector was originally open to the Clement sector. And when the worm hole with Earth collapsed that it also collapsed the Hyades sector as well. The first thing that happens when the conduit opens is that starship designs are going to be exchanged when trade resumes. 

One of these ship designs could well be the Starguard System Defence Boat which comes into our games as a system escort star ship. Why? Because of the capacity of these starships;"The Starguard Class System Defence Boat is a 400ton multi-purpose starship. It is not a true “System Defence Boat” as it has limited Jump-1 capability, but is popular with smaller systems who wish to have a reasonably capable ship able to be deployed in a variety of roles including system defence, customs inspection, police actions as well as being able to operate in a ground support role. It is also common with Mercenary Companies operating in a system defence role." The other ship in it's own role is the massive and impressive Trade Empire class starship. And it's a perfect ship in it's role as a trade embassitory ship;"The Trade Empire-class Commercial Transport is a massive 4500 tonne superfreighter.  This large vessel is capable of hauling 2670 tonnes of cargo through Earth Sector!" 

Designed to carry mass quantities of materials for the large corporations in Earth Sector, this superfreighter has been used by corporations to carry cargo, by navies as a replenishment ship, and is sometimes used to carry other starships.  Armed with defensive weaponry, the ship can even hold off pirates when needed!" 
The First Heaven Mercantile Company (FHMC) has thier own internal armed forces, trade representives, etc. so our Trade Empire class ship is going to be fully manned by it's own personel. 
And this set up of starships is going to get into the perfect seemingly target for pirates. And we'll get into those next time. 

Review & Commentary On Trade Empire-class Commercial Freighter By Michael Johnson From Independence Games For the Earh Sector Rpg, The Cepheus Engine Rpg, & Your Old School 2d6 Science Fiction Games

 “I spent twelve years in the Royal Navy before mustering out and joining British Interstellar Company and do not regret that decision at all. Same discipline, same loyalty to ship and crew, but with far more pay.” - Second Officer BIC MV New Windsor Liam Soltern, 2349 (standard)"

Trade Empire-class Commercial Freighter By Michael Johnson From Independence Games is one of the newest Commerical Freighter books for the Earth Sector rpg. And the Trade Empire-class Commercial Freighter looks like a real winner of a ship  that clocks in at forty pages. This is a big time hauler  on the space lanes moving cargo between systems & sectors. The Trade Empire-class star ships are the types of starships that legends are built on. 
These are commercial ships that provide all of the cargo that worlds are going to need and they act like the paddle boats of the Mississpi of 1860's supplying the Old West. Trade Empire-class  starships are the back bone of star systems & worlds on the frontier. They move cargo from point A to B. within  the Earth sector & her colony worlds. They are also the prey of the outlaws & pirates of the Earth sector. And they are the investiment backbone of the corporations & banks of Earth. 
The Trade Empire-class book is well done with Michael Johnson's usual flare for starship writing, capturing the grandeur, and labor of these starships. Ian Stead & Michael Johnson's artwork & design is on point. These are huge massive starships  as the stats reveal; "Type: Corporate Transport Vessel Class: Trade Empire Country: None (Commercial) Service Date: 2335 to date Displacement: 4500 tonnes Mass Tonnage: 22,500 tonnes Length: 153.5m Beam: 44m Thrust: 3G Complement: 79 (15 Officers, 64 Spacers) Craft Carried: 2x Ship’s Boats Cargo Carried: 2670 tonnes Armament: Primary: - Secondary: - Light: 20x dual beam laser turrets Defenses: Point Defense Node Array (45 nodes) Armor: Crystaliron" 


This book contains everything you need to drop a Trade Empire-class Commercial Freighter into your on going campaign including her class variants. You get full plans, cut away diagrams, fully indeph stats, and more all to bring to life your own Trade Empire-class Commercial Freighter into your game campaign. 
The Trade Empire-class Commercial Freighter  could also work just as well for a Cepheus Engine rpg campaign where you need this type of a commerical frieghter. And its a really well thought out design & class easily able to run a complete campaign aboard one of these star ships.