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Sounds great, I am glad to see that Pentapod ships will be included.

Ahh, my favorite. :) And excellent work too. I am continually impressed with your artwork.

Great. That was the one thing I wished the original Colonial Atlas had included. And if you have a separate sourcebook for each of the arms you should be able to include a lot of detail about each colony as well as events in the arm. This just keeps getting better and better. I think I may have...

Sounds like I will be spending a lot on 2300. Oh well, I did when it first came out as well :wink: Will the sourcebooks include maps of the various colony worlds like you had in 2320?

Saying a ship has to go all the way in to the primary would change the setting considerably. Ships use outer planets to discharge to save a great deal of time. Also it is much more stealthy. Kafers and human blockade runners would lurk in the outer system to bypass occupied systems without...

2300 never had a problem with those. Merchant games are harder though. Ships, even small ones, are hideously expensive and trade is more difficult to deal with than in 3I Traveller. It is possible to make a marginal living running expensive goods to out of the way places with something like a...

Not just the French. The Germans are having problems with some former Bavarian colonies that don't want to be part of the reunified Germany.

Even in the original 2300 you could do other stuff. I ran a Beyern campaign that lasted almost two years. Everyone had a blast exploring the galaxy and I tied it in with a bunch of political stuff and piracy as they left known space. At the Pleiades I used the AGRA mystery to drop them back on...

In the original 2300 you could discharge into any gravity well. Most people used whatever planet they were going to. Or they used handy gas giants for intermediate stops. That way they did not have to travel deep into systems they were not going to. I think Colin's approach of "What brown...

Colin, may we assume that the vehicle rules for 2300 will be fully compatible with the new traveller vehicle rules that were written by you and Mr Hahn?

Cool, I didn't know about the high spin rate. One suggestion about ships. Traveller products usually have ship floorplans as a feature, kind of a tradition. I think the Thorez class courier would make a fine sample ship for this purpose. It is small enough to be easily done, and the ship is very...

Colin, one interface system that was never really mentioned in 2300 was the High Energy Laser Launch system. It has most of the advantages of a catapult without the high G forces that make the catapult unsuitable for passengers. Even though it was never mentioned for 2300 it fits with the type...

Have to say I am looking forward to this. However I come down on the side of wanting to be able to design ships as well as simply run them with provided classes. I like the SFU and have since I bought the Pocket Games version of Star Fleet Battles as a teenager. I am curious to see what a...

I recommend all of Watts' work. And they are all deeply depressing... :shock:

Cool. I haven't read the 2300 stuff in a while and the details of the tanks have faded a bit. Looking forward to refreshing my memory with the new book. :D