Two issues with this..1) solar flares, and 2) micro-meteoroid impacts. Both can easily be dealt with by high tech-based early warning systems and knowledge of the local star system.

Ships taking part in gas giant skimming will also need to take into account the radiation in said gas giant's magnetic field. However, this isn't that difficult to do, as an article on the Popular Science website discusses (see following link). www.popsci.com/how-juno-spacecraft-will-survive-jupiter...

Once the weapon's capabilities are noted by the wielder's enemies, they'll figure out someway of getting past them. Taking at look at the weapon's individual effects, how about an ambush of about 30 goblinoids wielding heavy crossbows and backed up by 6-10 evil spellcasters? Flight: negated by cross...

Old School wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 18, 2019 7:50 pm

In that case, welcome back! You might be mixing point defense with distributed arrays in your memory. that's the only component with a minimum ship size that comes to mind.

Thank you! And regarding my mixing in arrays, quite likely.

There isn't any ship size limit for Point Defence Batteries. Most stuff doesn't have any hull size limit, if you can fit it on the existing hull go ahead. Distributed Arrays which require a lot of surface area on the hull are limited to ships of 5,000 or more tons. Thank you for your connfirmation....

baithammer wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 17, 2019 11:47 pm

Never seen such a limitation on Point Defense Battery, just that it requires a hard point.

Thanks for the reply. I wasn't sure if the limitation was part of some past errata. Sounds like I just didn't remember correctly. Good!

Are Point Defence Batteries limited to 3000+ ton ships only?

I seem to recall such a limitation but looking at HG 2e on page 33 (pg 34 in my copy of the pdf file), I don't see it. Is this limitation stated somewhere else or am I just misremembering?

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phavoc wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 30, 2018 1:29 pm

Jeff,

No apologies needed. You made all the right decisions. The magazine will persevere and come out next when you are able to do so.

Work on your family first. It's far more important.

Take care.

Amen to this.

I am so very, very sorry for your and your family's incredible loss.

Have you looked into Mongoose's "Agents" supplement for 1e? It does go into some detail of Imperial-level agents with law enforcement capabilities.

NOLATrav wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 27, 2018 3:37 am

I don’t have the book but doesn’t the Theeve Cluster supplement discuss black market weapons/upgrades/exotic toys?

If not that would be a cool Referee’s Briefing.

Mongoose's "Agent" and "Scoundrel" supplements for Traveller do.

Almost makes you wonder there wouldn't be very harsh penalties for civilian craft to be sporting PAs considering how nasty they are. I'm sure they have a unique signature that screams "Shoot me'. Oh, I'll bet. And the moment an Imp Navy ship spots that signature coming off of a civvy, all bets are ...

Excellent post, steve98052! Logical enough for me to amend my campaign and remove harmful residual radiation from particle weapon effects.

And don't forget that radiation is the gift that keeps on giving. Not much point in boarding a ship that's heavily irradiated by multiple PA hits. That radiation doesn't just go away instantly. It keeps spreading its effects to anyone who get close enough to its radiating source.

Don't forget treachery by someone inside and even honest negotiation for those players who prefer a more intellectual rather than violent way of ending things. Believe it or not, despite all the military tactics available, the most successful sieges were those that ended with talking. Starvation was...

For psionic use between two species that has similar sensory organs, simplistic imagery would seem to work best. But the sensory experiences of both need to be extremely similar, like those of the various humanity species and Vargr. Trying to communicate imagery psionically between something like a ...

Naval Customs Officer: Captain, can you explain why we found a laser weapons system that fills up a 100-ton bay on your ship during our inspection? Lab Ship Captain: We're a lab ship. It's a communications laser we're researching. Naval Customs Officer: Captain, that laser will reach across an entir...

Look up Traveller Adventure #1: The Kinunir for details on what happened when the Imperium tried to install an A.I. in one of its warships.

And let's not forget the entire Virus thing that segued MegaTraveller into Traveller: The New Era.

And my PDFs have now been updated with this errata. Good catch indeed.

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