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Just to reboot this thread, I just had Life Detection totally wreck a scenario where the PCs were crawling through a deep-atmosphere gas mining rig in a sub-Jovian planet (the old Sky Rig from White Dwarf). A player just pings this thing off, a skill with a puny cost and a 5km range, and...

Thanks for that, that'll be very useful and it's exactly the sort of thing I was wondering about.

I'm coming back after a long hiatus and dusting off my salvaging campaign. I remember last time I was underwhelmed by the 2nd ed firearms/armour and I'm thinking of using the more comprehensive 1st ed ones. Has anyone done this? Did they come up against any problems?

I actually bought them all before finding out there was a 2nd edition. I'm a bit miffed over that. Poor form DriveThru.

Cheers! I *knew* I'd seen it somewhere!

Is there any rules for this?

This is driving me nuts. I know I've seen this somewhere. If you agree with it or not I've seen that pulse lasers are considered 'category four' weapons in Mongoose 2 rules. I'm absolutely sure I've seen particle weapons referred to them as such but I can't find the reference. I've had no luck...

Disarms are all done through either leverage or a sudden blow, nearly always leverage because if you can simply knock a weapon out of the enemy's hand they're not much of an enemy. This means you have to get close; into grappling range.

Here's my take on a repurposed Type R for research. Maybe it could be called a Type R-L It has had the launch deleted and a fuel tank faired-in fuel tank replace it. There's another fuel tank closing in the rear cargo, all up giving the vessel two jump-1s. The rear cargo bay and half of the...

There's one repurposed Leviathan Class 1800 dtonner in 1105 on the Spinward Marches. http://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Leviathan It's my assumption that the Navy works inside the Imperium and the scouts work outside in terms of focus. Unlike now where massive fleets cruise 'international waters' the...

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May I post a suggestion?: I design some ships for players on the basis that not all the features are fitted at sale, and thus the price is different. If you wish to implement this I suggest you have a 'Retrofit?' button on item. The button only charges 5% of the item's price but allots its...

When a PC comes into possession of a starship it is registered at the ship's home port (Flag Country in real world terms). They also get a set of papers signed and ratified by the seller. If we continue to extrapolate of how ships transfer ownership it means the noble is up against the Imperial...

I think it might be a good idea for GMs to decide whether the Imperial Navy polices all systems. I would think that this would not be an even rule and that many powerful systems maintain control of their in-system space, or even have a power-sharing agreement.

As noted above we need to know the culture, government and policing set up. In Australia now the policeman would be reprimanded for not informing the police service that there was a crime in process. The policeman had no idea if it was a simple break and enter or a murder attempt. The policeman...