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Naval forces of Small Kingdoms / Star Empires

01 - 05 None

06 - 30 Small size
2D4 System Defense Boats

31 - 50 Intermediate size
1D4+1 Destroyer / Frigate
5D4+5 System Defense Boats

51 - 70 Moderate size
1 or 2 Cruisers
1D6+1 Destroyer / Frigate
4D10+10 System Defense Boats

71 - 85 Large size
1 or 2 Capital ships
1D2+1 Carriers
1D6+2 Cruisers
2D6+2 Destroyer / Frigates
6D10+10 System Defense Boats

86 - 95 Extensive size
1D4+1 Capital Ships
1D6+1 Carriers
2D6+2 Cruisers
4D6+3 Destroyer / frigates
8D10+25 System Defense Boats

96 - 99 Immense Sized
2D4+3 Capital Ships
2D6+2 Carriers
3D6+2 Cruisers
6D6+2 Destroyer / Frigates
10D10+30 System Defense Boats

00 Huge *
2D6+3 Capital Ships
3D6+3 Carriers
4D6+4 Cruisers
8D6+2 Destroyer / Frigates
15D10 System Defense Boats

* Fleet of Empire size note: If the Star Empire is of the largest # of systems; then triple the number of ships for the huge one in the chart.

Independent Defense Forces
01 - 30 None
31 - 55 Miniscule sized
1D10 System Defense Boats
56 - 75 Small sized
1D4 Destroyers / Frigates
2D10 System Defense Boats
76 - 85 Intermediate sized
1 or 2 Cruisers
1D6 Destroyer / Frigates
4D10 System Defense Boats
86 - 90 Moderate Sized
1 or 2 Carriers
1D4Cruisers
2D4 Destroyer /Frigates
5D10 System Defense Boats
91 - 96 Large Sized
1 or 2 Capital Ships
1D4 Carriers
1D6 Cruisers
4D4 Destroyer / Frigates
8D10 System Defense Boats
97 - 99 Expansive Sized
1D6+1 Capital Ships
2D4 Carriers
2D6 Cruisers
6D4 Destroyer / Frigates
10D10 System Defense Boats
00 - Immense Sized
2D4+2 Capital Ships
2D6 Carriers
3D6 Cruisers
8D4 Destroyer / Frigates
12D10 System Defense Boats

Naval Bases

01 - 20 None

21 - 35 Small Naval base - Able to handle system defense craft. Very limited repair / restocking of craft.

36 - 50 Medium Naval Base - Able to handle up to destroyer / frigates. For limited repair of larger craft. (Larger than Destroyer.) Able to fully repair and restock destroyers / frigates or smaller.

51 - 65 Cruiser Naval base - Able to handle up to cruisers. Can fully repair and restock of cruiser sized or smaller. Limited repair / restock for larger craft. Cruiser centered task force assigned to base.

66 - 80 Naval Base - Able to handle ny sized military craft. Generally limited to task force sized units assigned to base.

81 - 95 Expanded Naval Base - Able to handle repairs and restocking of all fleet units assigned to it.

96 to 00 Primary Naval base - Able to handle repairs and restocking of several fleets assigned to it.

Starship yards
For use with the Star Kingdoms / Empires. Determine if the yard is a military yard or a commercial yard when first generated.

01 - 15 None

16 - 30 Miniscule Sized
Repairs of small craft only. Building small orbital craft only

31 - 45 Small sized
Building small military craft. Repairing destroyer / frigates sized at most. Can build large inter systems commercial craft.

46 - 65 Moderate Sized
Building several (1D4) military craft at the same time. Can build one medium sized military vessels (Light Cruisers). Can perform maintence on larger ships. Can build small to medium commercial craft that have FTL. There are one of these yards to every 25 systems.

66 - 79 Intermediate Sized
Building many small military craft (2D4) at the same time as several (1D3) medium sized military craft (Cruisers) they can produce quickly and effciently. They can produce large numbers of commercial craft. Can perform maintence on larger ships. There is one of these yards to every 50 systems.

80 - 89 Large Sized
Buiulding many lines of small (3D4) (destroyer / frigates) and medium (1D6) military craft. This sized yard can also produce large militaery craft, but at a slow steady pace. (1 at a time.) The civilian craft of various sizes can be produced in reasonably large numbers. Certain ones of this yard types can specialized in certain types of ships at increased rates. There are one of these yards to every 75 systems. Can perform maintence on large ships.

90 - 95 Expansive sized
Building many lines of small and medium military craft. This yard can produce many lines of large military craft. do to the increase in orbital factories will increase speed of production. Any size or type of civilian craft can be produced here. Can perform maintence on large craft. There are one of these yards to every 100 yards.

96 - 98 Extensive Sized
This yard can build large numbers of various craft sizes at the same time. TThis can produce both military and civilian types of craft. there are generally one of these yards to every 250 systems.

99 - 00 Huge
This yard can build extreme numbers of various military or civilian craft. these are generally only one of these yards for every 500 systems controlled.

Orbital Facilities

01 - 25 None

26 - 45 Nearly undeveloped / Very limited numbers of orbital factories / ore processing facilities. Usually limited to a few.

46 - 60 Under developed - Orbital facilities are more extensive. The system produces a number of products. Possibility that one or two products are better known in the local group of star systems.

61 - 75 Developed - Orbital facilities even more extensive. The system produces quite a few products. There is a possibility that several products are known in the local group of stars systems. A few products might be well known outside of the local group.

76 - 90 Extensively Developed - Large numbers of various large orbital facilities. The system produces large numbers of products sold in the local group. Many products are sold in distant markets.

91 - 00 Expansively Developed - Extremely large numbers of various orbital facilities are within the system. These facilities are producing extremely large number of products. Many products are being sold in distant markets.

Hopefully people find this useful and entertaining.

Looks good...
My first thought, though, for determining size of fleet, might be to graduate it by using the rolled baseline as the number of those units ON AVERAGE, PER SYSTEM.
That doesn't mean that each system in the interstellar kingdom has that number of ships in it at all times, but is the average available to the kingdom to shift around(like variable forcefields).

The numbers are a bit high for single system star-nations..but it is for rifts. So it does not matter too much.

drewkitty ~..~ wrote:The numbers are a bit high for single system star-nations..but it is for rifts. So it does not matter too much.

Gotta figure all sorts of scenarios, from the large fleet made up of other peoples' junkers sold on the arms market, to found alien technologies like mothballed dreadnought warships. They're numbers, not any indication of their QUALITY.

taalismn wrote:

drewkitty ~..~ wrote:The numbers are a bit high for single system star-nations..but it is for rifts. So it does not matter too much.

Gotta figure all sorts of scenarios, from the large fleet made up of other peoples' junkers sold on the arms market, to found alien technologies like mothballed dreadnought warships. They're numbers, not any indication of their QUALITY.

*nods*
The numbers shown could be misleading due to the ships' quality and "in use" status.

Sort of like the difference between the Royal Manticore Navy and the Solarian League Navy in the Honorverve (in the covered time period of the main story line.)

drewkitty ~..~ wrote:[
*nods*
The numbers shown could be misleading due to the ships' quality and "in use" status.

Sort of like the difference between the Royal Manticore Navy and the Solarian League Navy in the Honorverve (in the covered time period of the main story line.)

Indeed, you might have sixty ships on paper, but only enough crews for half of them, with the rest effectively in mothballs. Then again, you might have sixty REGISTERED active duty warships, bit three times that number in light mothballing or reserve fleet merchant service; call in your reservists, peel back the foil, refuel the reactors, and plug the weapons controls back in, and your fleet is up and ready to fight.

Aramanthus wrote:Naval forces of Small Kingdoms / Star Empires

Hmm... These fleets are a bit "heavy headed", ie. too few escort (frigate/dessie) units compared to capitals.

drewkitty ~..~ wrote:The numbers are a bit high for single system star-nations..but it is for rifts. So it does not matter too much.

Not neccessarily, see one of my old posts (before Fleets):

viewtopic.php?f=28&t=48533

Adios
KLM

Of course, now we need to come up with Random Roll Starship Charts for creating one-shot or random 'mook-ships'(gears start turning)....

Aramanthus love it man

I will be working on some more charts in the near future. I have just been terribly busy with RL.

Aramanthus wrote:I will be working on some more charts in the near future. I have just been terribly busy with RL.

Tell me about it. Just finished my income taxes and discovered how badly I got hosed by falling interest rates and low work hours....falling into a substantially lower income bracket is NOT worth the lower tax rate...on top of which I have to find decent health insurance.

Health insurance? What is that..... I think that is a mystical state of mind.

Aramanthus
love it
love it
love it
look forward what next or add on

I am still going to post some other new ones. It has been a busy couple of months. Sorry I haven't been around lately.

Aramanthus wrote:I am still going to post some other new ones. It has been a busy couple of months. Sorry I haven't been around lately.

looking forward to see it you rock