Openframe Ship Catalog · Chapter 10
Ownership, Licenses and Refit
What an Openframe hull costs new and used, what the license costs each year, who audits it, and when to buy a newer version or upgrade the one you have.
Condition and Price
Apply the condition multiplier to the catalog price (Vehicles Manual, Chapter Twelve, Condition and the Used Market, which also gives each condition's Maintenance Clock). All versions exist at once, and the older versions are the used market.
| Condition | Multiplier | What you are buying |
|---|---|---|
| Factory new | ×1.00 | Warranty, clean registry, full service history |
| Serviceable used | ×0.55 | Ten to twenty years old, maintained, documented |
| High hours | ×0.35 | Deferred maintenance, tired systems, incomplete records |
| Salvage title, flying | ×0.25 | Recovered and returned to service; title annotated |
A used Openframe hull is a bargain with a catch: check the license. Licensed slots on a used hull may carry a lapsed license, and the new owner pays to restore it.
Which Version to Buy
| If you want | Buy |
|---|---|
| A hull that owes nothing, ever | The first version of any line, used |
| The cheapest starting ship | A used Model 20 v1.0 |
| A heavy freighter you can run with a small crew | The Model 40 v1.1 |
| The most Cargo for the money | The latest version of the line |
| A hull with the fewest audit risks | A first version, where every slot is Open |
License Fees
The license is 0.4% of the catalog price per Licensed slot per year.
| Hull | Licensed slots | Annual fee |
|---|---|---|
| Model 10 v1.1 | 1 | 500cr |
| Model 20 v1.1 | 2 | 3,000cr |
| Model 20 v1.2 | 3 | 4,700cr |
| Model 30 v1.1 | 2 | 3,100cr |
| Model 40 v1.1 | 2 | 14,400cr |
| Model 40 v1.2 | 2 | 15,200cr |
| Model 50 v1.1 | 2 | 13,100cr |
| Model 60 v1.1 | 2 | 51,800cr |
| Model 60 v1.2 | 4 | 112,500cr |
| Model 70 v1.1 | 2 | 52,800cr |
| Model 80 v1.1 | 1 | 96,800cr |
Audits
A port with a League exchange audits Licensed slots by scan. The audit reads each pod's license panel and compares it with the ship's manifest.
A current license passes without a check.
A lapsed license is found on a Success, and the module shuts down at the end of the round. The crew pays the arrears and the restoration fee, and the ship has Authority Heat until it is cleared.
A mismatched manifest (a module aboard that the manifest does not list) raises Authority Heat even when every license is current.
Leasing and Financing
Openframe's customers finance through corporate leasing, module rentals, subscription licensing and insurer-backed loans. A leased hull's license is paid by the lessor and passed on in the lease. A crew that owns its hull outright pays the license itself.
A used hull at high hours or below is usually bought outright, because insurers will not cover it.
Upgrading a Version
An owner may upgrade a hull to the next version at an Openframe yard. The cost is on each line's Version Table and in Chapter 12, Version Upgrades.
Example. A crew owns a Model 20 v1.0 and wants the v1.1. The upgrade costs 10 points and 28,100cr at retrofit rates, taken from the hull's unspent budget of 93 points. The yard keeps the ship for 1 week. The hull gains two Module Slots and 20 Cargo Units, and from that day it owes about 3,000cr a year. A crew that fills the new slots with work that pays is ahead. A crew that leaves them empty has bought a fee.
When an upgrade is not worth it. A Classic is not upgraded away from without a reason. The Model 20 v1.0 owes nothing, and the Model 40 v1.1 keeps its Owner-Operator Spine, which the v1.2 turns into a licensed service.
