I had largely ignored the Leviathan due to the material that was retconned as being inadmissible in canon. But, reading it now, I see that it is a Jump-3 ship with a backup Jump-2 drive. Overall, at 1800 dTons and only 70 dTons of cargo capacity, I largely would have ignored it for my campaign even ...

Reynard wrote: ↑

Thu May 30, 2019 8:48 pm

The Leviathan is also an exploratory trader, correct?

Never looked at it to be honest. Will look shortly...

Just while we're here. Does this hypothetical fighter equipped must be expecting trouble beyond turret weapon solutions heavy freighter in fact have armor? From my earlier assessment it seems reasonable it would have at least a minimum similar to the Far Trader and Type A Free Trader who stick thei...

I needed to go back to the original situation with the sparse information known. 1) A 1500 ton freighter to be converted to escort status 2) Needed as quickly as possible compared to building a comparable warship 3) Has three cargo holds, port and starboard 60 ton holds and a 120 aft (central?) hol...

Looking back at Classic Traveller: Medical-1 is sufficent to qualify a character for the position of medic on a starship crew. An Medical-2 or better allows a DM of +1 when reviving low passengers (each normally throws 5+ to revive after a trip; otherwise the passenger dies. Medical-3 is sufficient ...

Not sure about the Wiki but Traveller Map already has some data posted. In the drop down menu where you can select map style, etc, you can also select the Milieu or era and the map displays it. The Marches in 1900 look very, very different. Alell is still Amber Zoned. That's harsh. The "Fly in ambe...

Hangars and Docking spaces take multiple turns / minutes to launch or recover vessels and during this time can't expend thrust or fire weapons by the launching / launched craft. ( Would affect jumping out as you'd need to finish recovery operations.) Upgrading weapon systems would be a more flexibl...

Hello Folks, If you had to convert a heavy freighter over to escort duty, as a hull that can be modified faster than it can be built at a ship-yard, would you make the effort to do so? Take for example, a 1,500 dTon hull that has three separate holds, two that are 60 dTons each, and one that is 200 ...

I couldn't wait for 2300AD 2E. Using the 1E rulebook is interesting. Does anyone know what the speed actually is when using stutterwarp? I know it goes 7.7 light years. And it takes 2 days to 2 weeks. But how do I determine how many days it takes to go 7.7 light years? I mostly want to covert this ...

That and the new changes are, I think, haphazardly breaking canon concepts. That in itself isn't a bad thing as changing the game system is required if they expect to continue to sell newer versions. But breaking canon needs to be thought out and a determination made if breaking it makes (a) sense,...

Haha, I assure you there were no cruel intentions behind the preview, I merely wished to give you a glimpse of what the book says on the matter :) <snipped stuff> Out of curiosity, what are the other two things you want/need? I never assume evil intent on the boards - but I do tend to try and get p...

Thank you for the sneak peek Annatar, I could almost HATE you for that... *teasing grin* I owe my wife a steak dinner with my first paycheck assuming I get the job I'm hoping to get (just completed an interview! Yee Haw!). I'm permitted to spend some money on Traveller Stuff with the second check, b...

Hi Jeff,
Just wanted to take a moment to say thank you for this issue. I like it a lot.

Hal

As I consider the "Ancients" and what they could do, I got to thinking - what could the Third Imperium do with its current TL 15 technology. The thought that sparked this process was based on an Old Larry Niven novel, in which a man uses a ship to approach a given velocity, use a black hole as a sli...

As pointed out, the idea about drop tanks seems to have issues, but why not examine the practice to see what is involved? What happens when we have an enemy fighter of 10 dTons nearby when a ship attempts to jump away? Anything? Ok, let's turn it into a 40 dTon boat instead of even a 50 dTon cutter?...

On structured ID codes: A thing to consider is that computer systems are more secure and efficient when they use random numbers and just look up the data for it in a database, rather than encode it into the number directly with digits for origin, year and so forth. An example of this is the unique ...

One has to wonder how the civilian version of hull classification types would run. There is a lot of detail on hull designation for military ships - but very little on the others (including the Scout ships). How is it that the Scout Service has only a VERY few ship classes as compared against say, t...

Note too - that despite drop tanks being introduced in Traveller in the early years, few ships ever used the Drop Tank per any of the supplements that were put out. Off hand (and I'll bet I'm wrong since I don't have ALL of the books from ALL of the systems to be sure!!!) - I can only think of one s...

Hi Guys, Just wondered if any one on this forum has ever created a standard system for determine what a registration value should be for any given hull in their campaign(s). What I'm doing a little at a time, here and there, is coding for my own enjoyment, an application that will let me (in text mo...

Annatar Giftbringer wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 26, 2019 10:59 am

The Traveller Companion has a chapter on gas giant operations and fuel skimming.

Alas - without a job - not a viable option.