Since you have tonnage to spare, what about installing a small bay weapon (or two) in those cargo door areas and/or swapping out some turrets for barbettes? If you can manage particle ones without the local authorities taking exception, you'd have direct attack options that will out-range most turre...

Isn't that actually the ambassador to Arden rather than an admiral? There's no such admiral in the adventure but it matches the ambassador's description perfectly.

The entry for Psi-Drugs in both the core and the CSC says... A Traveller who takes more than one dose of Standard or Double Psi-Drug, or a single dose of the Special drug must make an END check, with DM-1 per dose of psi-drug taken in the last week. Despite the ambiguous wording, I'm pretty sure tha...

There are various anti-energy armors in the CSC. Their advantage in each case is that they're relatively cheap compared to general-purpose armors. Their disadvantage is that they're not much good against non-energy attacks (or energy attacks of the wrong type).

It isn't unusual to require multiple surgeries in the case of really severe damage. The final one(s) might be for relatively minor things (mostly cosmetic/reconstructive), but sometimes you just can't deal with everything at once, if only because the person's body wouldn't be able to take it.

Really, it comes down to this. Traveller was conceived about forty years ago when the things that computers can do today (and the forms they take) would've been seen as the realm of wildly implausible sci-fi. The effects of most other technology getting better largely amounts to doing the same thing...

We want a cheaper ship! Let's load it up with as many quirks as we can get away with so it's real cheap then complain we can't do anything with such a quirky ship and demand cheap ways to get rid of the quirks. While that might be true in the case of a chargen-obtained ship, the PCs may come into p...

The naval / element cruiser sourcebook has 'exploration pods' among the modular options for the ships, and that entry talks about their use in scouting operations. They aren't owned and operated by the scout service when working in that capacity, though, even if scout service personnel are assigned ...

Since there isn't a specific career entry for it, how are psionic characters meant to be handled in package-based chargen?

I'd agree that the difference in tone is likely to be the biggest hitch: Star Wars is flashy white-hat-vs-black-hat space opera, while Star Trek tends to focus on lower-key scenarios that involve some combination of mystery and moral dilemma, as opposed to the Traveler's 'ordinary-ish people trying ...

Then that leads to the question of why have a SOC score when you can use money instead. One's position in a corporation is a matter of employment, basically what job he holds, such a person could lose his job tomorrow, the corporation could go belly up, there could be a run on its stocks in the sto...

Considering the frequency with which I've seen character balance issues come up on gaming sites like RPOL, the point-buy part is the one i'm most interested in.

I suppose that if the noble in question had sufficient jurisdiction over the army then they could, in that capacity, issue a new regulation regarding forms of address to cover this situation. That's going to bring a lot of unwanted scrutiny and questions regarding their intentions (or competence) th...

Both of these are going to depend heavily on the specifics of the laws in question. If you personally know the individual, and are aware of their age/license status, then an attestation might be enough to deflect legal trouble in some places, especially if it's a low law level area. It's not going t...

Could they do it and feel morally justified? Maybe. Could they do it and be legally justified? Not unless that legal system allows it - and if it's based on most real-world 'western' systems then the answer is no. In the same vein, and assuming a similar legal system, they should probably not be on ...

#5: It's just poorly phrased. Each rank of steward among the crew that deals with passengers allows for two high class or five middle class passengers. This may involve one steward or several, as long as they have enough ranks between them to cover all of the passengers. Each ton of Luxuries on the ...

I figure that there should be some practical experience with this by now, so... How compatible is 1E material with the 2E core rules? Anything ship-related seems likely to require a good deal of thunking given the changes to ship design/mechanics, but what about character material, setting fluff, et...

Actually, the (possibly wrong) impression I got from what I looked up was that the extremely long half-life materials were not the materials that were left after nuclear explosion. That's also what I was referring to, not wind/rain/etc. It might not be safe in a month or so, but years later, and es...

In the case of something like a derelict ship, anyone going aboard is presumably going to be wearing a vacc suit, and those already need to protect the wearer from the ambient radiation they'll be getting if they're outside a planet's magnetic field and even more so if they happen to be outside the ...

Something from 1st: First Aid/Surgery/etc probably ought to restore 1 + Effect rather than Effect. Otherwise you can have successful checks that don't actually do anything.