Keeping to my pace so far... another subsector: The Beyond M: Spinward Drift https://geirbloodaxe.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-beyond-subsector-m-spinward-drift.html Map: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8CWf-trERr8/XoNxN0W-0GI/AAAAAAAABS0/KmQ4zFvo8fAdZvmkRcLemxz-dJZumxtCQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/TheBeyondSubsectorM....

Okay, despite a bit of covid-induced depression and full Picard series binge, I managed another subsector. Four to go. This one includes a little disclaimer on Delta Cephei. It really doesn't belong where it is, but then again, in Traveller, the Galaxy is flat. I always try to rationalize it as a se...

Made it to Friday without a cough! Here is another subsector: Subsector K:Storm https://geirbloodaxe.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-beyond-subsector-k-storm.html In my version of The Beyond, the Storm Knights are a large part of the history of the sector, spending a thousand years in direct conflict again...

Another subsector. This makes 10 so far, and I've been anti-social enough that the virus hasn't caught up to me yet, so I might finish... In any case, here is Subsector J: Nakris https://geirbloodaxe.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-beyond-subsector-j-nakris.html https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RaXkLi2epIw/Xnwp7...

Well the obvious one is Great Rift Adventure 2: Deepnight Endeavour. It looks like you can get it individually or you can buy the whole Great Rift set. And the Great Rift set itself (well, Book 4) would be good for background on running an exploration campaign. And then there' the Element Class Crui...

Another day of "working from home". Honestly, I'm in an awkward position as senior staff. I have no direct day-to-day responsibilities and no managerial responsibilities, so hopefully the organization won't catch on too soon. I'm sure in a couple of months I'll be back to endless meetings and dealin...

A series of true exploration adventures, accompanied by GM specific information and tools on how to craft your own. A vast majority of the adventures I see for Traveller all deal with being in civilized space. Sure, sometimes that is at the edge - often it is at the edge - but so rare in the actual...

Continuing my anti-social isolation (not a stretch for me, really), I've completed another subsector and ship design. Here is Subsector H: Florian (half-way through the sector!) Complete with the Monarchy of Lod, which sort of evolved organically as I was working my way through the write-up. https:/...

And then the Missiles special supplement published in JTAS added: MISSILE STORAGE Each standard missile rack can hold one missile ready to fire and two additional missiles ready for future game turns. The role of the gunner in the turret is to aim and fire the weaponry in the turret; once the missi...

Note: The next Subsector contains the Sred!Ni race. Note that I used a bang (!) and not a star (*). Mainly that's because the conversion process I use to import systems into travellermap.com output relies on a * as an intermediary step. Since my understanding of the intent was for the * to represent...

Just to roll another grenade (three actually) in here: One thing I encountered recently doing ship designs: You can't put an armored bulkhead on a fixed mount weapon, because it has no mass. Or, alternatively, you can, but because it has no mass and the bulkhead is free... not a big point (since the...

It's not that it won't work, it's just that it works like regenerative braking on a Toyota Prius. It will help increase the range of the vehicle by reacquiring some of the energy, but it no way gets you anything for free. That is not what was suggested in the linked article: What the Warsaw-based d...

It's NOT a perpetual motion proposition. It's living within physical parameters (the theory of it at least). Of course it is a classic perpetual motion machine, it even suggests perpetual motion; being able to fly without adding external energy. What seems to be suggested here is that the engines d...

And now for the ship and its smallcraft: Acrux-class Heavy Cruiser The Acrux heavy cruiser is most prevalent capital ship in the Corellan League. Produced in large numbers by the shipyards at Valhalla and, in much smaller numbers, under license by Jeremiah, the Acrux-class design is more than a cent...

So, another subsector. https://geirbloodaxe.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-beyond-subsector-f-freya.html After a week of running around play host for the National Guard at work (long, not relevant, story) I now get to spend the next undefined period of time like everyone else that doesn't need to be in th...

I've uploaded the image again, and it seems to be working again (at least for me). Let me know. Works on your blog, not here on the forum. Update the image link in your forum post? Clearly needed more coffee this morning. How about this?: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eiAd89-yQKA/Xmj2E2grj-I/AAAAAAAAB...

I get a permission error on the subsector image, both here and on your blog: https://i.imgur.com/phmRq4o.png Error message: https://i.imgur.com/NWqL2gf.png Have you set permissions on the image correctly? Well, it worked last night, and not this morning. I've uploaded the image again, and it seems ...

Subsector E: Corella This subsector took longer than I though. https://geirbloodaxe.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-beyond-subsector-e-corella_10.html The blog post runs more than 5800 words, and so far my whole sector document is almost 22,000 words. Since it cover the government and world that has the mo...

Tom, Thanks for your reply back. I won't try to nest my response within the notes, because I'm sure I'll make a mess of it. Thanks for the reference to the LBB rules. I didn't go back and check myself, but it makes the crewing make more sense. It also speaks to the problem of using rules not present...

Highguard is kind of all over the place on crew, especially the engineer requirement. I had read it as 1 per 35 tons of drives, round up, so a scout needs 1 and a close escort, for instance, needs 4, but then along comes the lab ship, which should have 2 but has 1, and the corvette which should have...