Hello Bruce and Cian,

Thank you both for the replies.

> On July 19, 2019 at 1:28 PM Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote: 

> If that vessel has a displacement of only 120 dT (if I’m remembering my MT specs correctly) and 100 of that is taken

>up by a missile bay, there isn’t ROOM on it for a crew of 25 or 50. 

Yes, with a Model 1 Computer the total crew is 32, provided I've not made any more math errors, of which 25 are required for the 100-ton missile bay. There is no way to house the calculated crew unless they are in vacc suits and strap themselves to the outside of the station. Upgrading to a Model 7fib Computer the 100-ton missile bay has a crew requirement of 5, 1 command, 1 bridge, and 1 engineering. A little more doable, but that would be changing the design.

> From the description given it also sounds entirely like an automated missile station, controlled via data link from the ground. A

> crewed station wouldn’t ‘automatically acquire and fire upon non-responsive vessels.

The write-up states that the Guardian has a planetary radio as a data link, which as you and Cian indicate, probably makes the battle station automated.

> There are a large number of ships scattered throughout Traveller canon that simply cannot be built following the rules.

Yes, there are a large number of Traveller ships that cannot be built using the design procedures, which has caused me a lot of confusion and irritation since my way of learning the rules without examples is to take a published design.

In the case of the Guardian the only way to achieve the designer's idea is to use a 100-ton missile bay. I also understand that omitting the crew to indicate an automated system is since I can not anything by searching my PDF books on how to automate a system not to require a crew. 

> On July 19, 2019 at 1:38 PM Cian Witherspoon <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:  

> Okay, so it has... two rounds per tube, if I’m reading that right? Not sure why it has armor unless it’s meant to be reusable, but the

> fuel seems pretty high, and the data link means the crewing requirement is fulfilled with remote gunners, computer programs, and

> external maintenance crews.

You are reading the information correctly, per MT Referee's Manual page 74 that a 100-tom missile bay can hold 100 missiles and in one battery round can launch 50 missiles.

The fuel tankage is pretty high in my opinion too, even when using the correct fuel consumption requirement.

The only items I would recommend changing so far is dropping the fuel tankage, correcting the Hull inoperative/destroyed damage points, and adding annotation about the automation replacing the crew.

Of course there is the issue that a Guardian has no way of maintaining a stable orbit since it does not currently list the capability. I do not think that the battle station needs a 1G drive to maintain the stable orbit, so I would use something less than 1G which is a modification of the procedures that needed annotation.

Again thank you both for the replies.

Tom Rux