Greetings

Someone on Facebook asked about rules for upgrading starports and remarkably I can't find anything on the subject. Although there may be enough in the way of numbers in GURPS Starports (2000) and Mongoose's Starports (2011) to allow such calculations to be made.

However, in having a look, I did find the following which I thought might be of use to those interested in starports generally. Note the caveats at the end.

cheers

Monographs

21 Starport Places (Gypsy Knights Games, 2013) – 21 locations found in starports (also 2017 Clement version & 2019 Cepheus Engine version)
Alien Module 1: Aslan (Mongoose, 2009) – encounter tables for starports
Alien Module 2: Vargr (Mongoose, 2009) – encounter tables for starports
Alien Module 3: Darrians (Mongoose, 2010) – encounter tables for starports
Castrobancla (Alex Greene Games, 2016) – offers a simple starport code inspired system of describing neighbourhood quality
Class E&D Starports (Nienhaus Games, 2014) – notes for detailing Class D and Class E starports, along with various layout plans; tables for prominent features of a starport and purchase tables for souvenirs, exotic food and exotic drinks; various NPCs to staff a starport; details for a TL11 firefighting robot and TL11 luggage robot; 1” = 1.5m floor plans for various components of a Class D starport: arrival/departure lounges, bathroom, warehouse complex, hospital, luggage, offices, restaurant, security/customs, server room, shops and tickets/check in; 1” = 1.5m floor plans for two rooms at a Class E starport
Compendium 3 (Mongoose, 2013) – four starports described and detailed
Core Rules (FFE, 2011) – notes on starports
d66 Random Spaceport Events – 36 events for spicing up starport or spaceport settings or encounters
d66 Reasons Why the Starport is Closed (Jon Brazer Enterprises, [2016]) – 36 reasons a starport might have shut up shop
d66 Spaceport Bar Names (Jon Brazer Enterprises, [2010]) – names for hostelries which might be found in a starport
d66 Spaceport City Names (Jon Brazer Enterprises, [2010]) – 36 names for cities and ports – and volume 2 (2016)
d66 Stores in a Spaceport (Jon Brazer Enterprises, [2014]) – 36 names for shops
Deck Plan 2: Modular Cutter (SJG, 2001) – one of the modules is a ‘Class I Starport’
The Evening Star (R. Warfield Game Design & Marketing, 1979) – details of an L5 type space colony
Far Trader (SJG, 1999) – details of starport operations
Fifty Starbases (Judges Guild, 1981) – 50 example plans and tables for generating facilities
Imperial Marines (Grenadier, 1983) – 12 figure miniature collection that included a starter scenario which included a plan of Trachon Starport
Locale: Startowns (Michael Brown, 2019) – rules for creating startowns with options for character, quality, debauchery, other businesses and crowds; events table (also Locale: Cities)
Planetary Survey 4: Glisten (SJG, 2001) – illustrative colour diagram of Banf Starport
Port Xanatath (Group One, 1980) – large colour map, background and general description; encounter tables
Quick Decks 6: Frontier Starports (DSL Ironworks, 2012) – 25mm modular tiles of starport components
Quick Decks: Frontier Starport (DSL Ironworks, 2016) – OGL version of the previous entry
Referee’s Aid 3: Going Portside (Mongoose, 2016) – notes on the tranport, advertising, startown and fade-down of starports; notes on 9 hotels & eateries, 7 merchant establishments and 8 places to visit – handy detailing for fleshing out starports
Referee’s Aid 6: Societies and Settlements (Mongoose, 2015) – settlement patterns and types, spaceports/starports/orbital facilities
Reign of Discordia (Mongoose, 2010) – detailed description of Rover’s Beacon spaceport
Starport Module 1: Hotel Complex (FASA, 1981) – 15mm floor plans of a luxury starport hotel, booklet with building description and 3 scenarios
Starport Planetfall (Cargonaut Press, 1999) – rules and background for detailing starports; encounters and port business; character gen and the Starport Authority
Starports (Mongoose, 2011) – Imperial starports, their classification and design; starport encounter tables; nine example starports
Starports: Gateways to Adventure (SJG, 2000) - general background to the Imperial Starport Authority, classes of starport, scout and naval starports; organizational structure of the SPA with details of the different departments and services; notes on relationships with the host planet; starport design sequence, starport characters and campaigns using starports; plans and layouts for specific starports (Graniff Field, Rech, Dhian, Alell Grande, Mora and Fyrandil) as well as various starport components
Starship Geomorphs (Pearce Design Studio, 2018) – deck plan portions for ships or starports
Startown Liberty (GameLords, 1984) – detailed encounter tables covering the rougher areas of a world’s starport
Supplement 13: Starport Encounters – example crews and cargoes available; rules for creating such
Supplement 14: Space Stations (Mongoose, 2014) – rules for designing space stations; operations, combat and equipment; trade, docks and construction yards; ten examples of space stations from 200 to 10,000 tons; chronology and notes on the unlocated Agave system (including Agave Prime BAE8578-A and Agave Bravo C897477-A) with three patron encounters; blank Space Station Characteristics Profile form
Supplement 16: Adventure Seeds – starport locations
Tancred (Judges Guild, 1980) – starport map and details
Three Blind Mice (13Mann, 2014) – plans for part of a starport concourse
Traveller Companion (Mongoose, 2019) – rules for describing ports and their features, events and defences; rules for starports and spaceports from the transponder angle

Periodicals

Exonidas Spaceport (Dragon 59, 1982) – adventure with plans for a downport, spaceport and high port and description
Champa Interstellar Starport (JTAS 7, 1981) – details and description of a starport in Harlequin subsector (Solomani Rim 3109) which is a gateway to the Solomani Rim and Hive federation – can be used as a generic port
The Compleat Starport (Far & Away 1, 1990) – rules for detailing starports and their contents, operations and facilities
From Port to Jump-point (JTAS 22, 1985) – rules for bringing life and detail to starports and in-system travel
Gazulin Starport (JTAS [Mongoose] 1, 2019) – colour plans of highport and downport
Happy Landings! Starport Design in Traveller (White Dwarf 43, 1983) – notes on and standard designs for Class A-E starports, startowns and scout bases
House Rules (Traveller Chronicle 4, 1994) – starport traffic and facilities generator (extent and quality)
The Jewel of the Jewel (Freelance Traveller 82, 2017) – description of an exclusive restaurant in Banfi Starport on Glisten
Jump Destination: Knorbes (Freelance Traveller 76, 2016) – notes on Knorbes’ starport (and adventure seeds)
Port Facilities (White Dwarf 22, 1980/81) – rules for developing starport descriptions from the classic Traveller basics
Rockard City (Alien Star 2, 1981) – description of a derelict starport and encounter tables
Starport Rescue Facilities and Lifeboats: Tech Brief (Travellers’ Digest 16, 1989) – starport rescue facilities and their organization defined
Starships, Starports and Vehicles – a HIWG newsletter concentrating on hardware

NOT included: NPCs running facilities in starports (or related character generation), starport robots, adventures set/starting in starports, news briefs etc. Nor reviews of any of the products.

METHOD:

A search of The Traveller Bibliography 3^rd edition + the 2018 Addenda (+ the incomplete 2019 addenda), The Traveller Periodical Bibliography and the work-in-progress The Traveller Periodical Bibliography vol.2 for the words ‘starport’ or ‘spaceport’.

TPB vol2 does not yet include all of Freelance Traveller – so a search on that website might be worth doing and does not yet include much of Stellar Reaches or Far Traveller 1-2, High Passage 1-5, The Imperial News Service 1 (unseen) 2, The Imperial Staple 1-12, Security Leak 1-5 & Signal GK 1-13. [On the upside, I’m getting closer to finishing that I had thought!]