Starships (Traveller)

Starships is a supplement in which the content is divided into three parts: a brief Imperial Calendar, a substantial Universal Ship Profiles section featuring 30 military and civilian vessels from the Milieu 0 setting, and the Standard Ship Design System (SSD). While the ship profiles offer stats, descriptions, artwork by Chris Foss, and deck plans, the designs mostly reinterpret classic Traveller ships at lower tech levels—some updated, others straying from the originals.^[1]

Shannon Appelcline noted that after delays on T4 supplements, "Starships (1996), the first Traveller supplement, finally came out in November. A three-month gap before the first supplement was not terrible but Imperium's continued posting of inaccurate schedules (and Whitman's defences on them on the internet) had made things look worse." Appecline also explained that "Unfortunately, this first supplement did not hold up to fans' expectations any more than the rulebook had. The 108-page book included 64 pages of huge deckplans and 12 pages of beautiful but irrelevant Chris Foss artwork. The only actual rules in the book - a ship design system - ran a mere 26 pages, less than a quarter of the book." Appelcline concluded that "The book was also pricey for the mid-1990s at $20.00 for 108 pages."^[2]: 332