Hi.
So, I am aware that starships are waaaaaay out on the development plan, but I had thoughts I wanted to share.
I was bouncing around the forums, as I do, and stumbled onto a conversation in Savage World about item modification, which led me to a YouTube video talking about how to make things work in Savage Worlds 4.6. Anyways, one section of the video was about the vehicle system that is in use, and I was thinking man, that is exactly (mostly) how starships should work in Traveller.
Basically, you can drag and drop characters into parts of the vehicle and their skills and abilities get tied in with that operations. For instance, you can drop a character into the pilot slot, another character onto a gun, and another onto another gun. If we had starships that had various positions you could do the same basic thing for helm, navigation, engineer, steward/medic, etc... It was a really cool way of handling it.
Link to video. Starts about 8 mins.