Recent content by Bryn the 2300AD guy

The stutterwarp timeline is majorly inconsistent and messed up. Over three years ago I wrote: 2300AD Changes (3a): Stutterwarp Part 1 Introduction Stutterwarp is the one declared physics violation in the 2300AD universe that is a feature, rather than a bug. During the 3 editions under...

"Drive Tuners" don't exist in the primary canon, and are redundant. In the early 2300AD stuff, robot probes had been operating with multiple drives since the 2130's. The original stutterwarp lacked the full 7.7 ly range, and all the early probes and early manned exploration used multi-drives...

First, some IP notes. The Beta Aquilae Cluster was in a DGP product, and thus their IP. GDW planned to use some of the ideas about exploring beyond the American Arm as one of their three focal storylines (see below). The Aquilans are the IP of Quicklink Interactive's successor. The three...

Korean unification occurred in the mid-21st century. Both Koreas collapsed during the Twilight War, but the south recovered quicker, with Japanese investment. In the mid-21st century North Korea simply accepted unification in return for Japan helping rebuild the country. Ca. 2100 the...

There is no Empress etc. in prime canon. That's fanon adopted by Colin. GDW prime canon says: Manchuria, China and Canton speak different languages (Manchurian, Mandarin and Cantonese). George Stahl on the Bayern speaks Manchurian. The main description is: "China: Traditional China was...

When I was a PhD student I asked our two Chinese students about the name. The answer was, after they worked out what I was asking, that China looks like a Chicken, and Manchuria was an old name for the head of the Chicken. Manchuria seems to originate with the Soviet puppet state created ca...

Incidently, GDW gave this area of space a name, right in the original publication of Traveller:2300 in 1986. The Anjou write-up says this area is the Seurier Cluster.

2300AD is its' own universe. Originally it had it's own ruleset (the Overlord system), but now uses the Mongoose Traveller rules. If there was an Expanse licence, it would be a separate universe using the Traveller rules.

I think the issue is the HZCO, the root of the luminosity, is calculated in AU, not orbit no. You calculate the orbital distance in AU and then convert to orbit no.

I don't have the WBH, but I have read it. Insolation (with Earth = 1) is: Insolation = stellar luminosity/distance (in AU)^2 Hence if you set insolation = 1: Distance^2 = Luminosity Distance = Luminosity^0.5 So for Asim, if insolation is the same as Earth, orbital distance is 1.94 AU. This...

Before any discussion of things that have changed under Colin's watch, it's useful to define the changes during GDW's time. Especially the changes when Lester W. Smith took it over from Tim Brown. The big ones I have found are: 1. Stutterwarp Discharge I have blogged about this (link)...

I've never understood the accusation that 2k3 was "19th century." GDW had a sci-fi Victorian game in the shape of Space:1889, and this wasn't it. I guess it is the fact that nations survived, and compete. Let me point out that until ca. 2280 the "French Peace" basically held. Nationalism was...

Maybe. This is mentioned in the original Invasion. However, the wars mean ships disappearing from registries etc., and in such chaos things slip through the cracks. Part of the problem seems to be a lack of understanding of the law. It's all very, per Adam Somethings video on the Satoshi...

Meetpoint station is a strange tale. When Colin wrote 2320AD, the "Libertines" were one of the few things that were his original creation. Basically, Colin like CJ Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe, and wanted a group like the Spacers of that universe. Further, for some reason he wanted them to...

D'Artagnon is a French outpost. There is no Indonesian outpost at Barnard's. The nearer parts of the Chinese Arm are: Barnard's Star: Manchurian (2153, edit, not Mancunian) and American* (2160) planetary outpost with 0.71 G Seurier: French/ESA (2159) outpost (0.21 G) Broward**: American outpost...