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    Historic Vilani-Zhodani contacts?

    It's quite possible the Zhodani were aware of the existence of the Vilani but not the other way. A handful of Zhodani agents, would likely have had no trouble positioning themselves in the upper ranks of the Vilani and psionically ensure they didn't expand through Corridor and focused instead in...
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    Do GURPS and Mongoose Traveller remain in continuity?

    The writing is top notch. I recently lent out the GURP traveller core book to a new guy to learn about the setting. It's ~60% setting background info. Haven't really looked at the ship design rules in it tho. I remain mostly-ignorant of the GURPS mechanics.
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    Intelligent weapon, now I'm lost?

    some of that software is really for Ships more than a gun. I don't think many guns are envisioned running Intellect. Now, why not have him be a drone nut instead. There are little flying combat drones he could command, and tinker with and modify etc... He'd have a little control interface and...
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    Massive Traveller Reprint - Any Changes?

    the 200ton Wilds Trader in one of the supplements has jump-2 but only lists a model/1 computer. It would need a 1bis to run jump control for a jump 2.
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    The-planet-shouldnt-exist

    yeah, doesn't seem all that odd to me, it would have been a binary system, but ran out of star juice early.
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    Technology Marches On - The Alcubierre Drive

    one possible problem with Dr. White's method of detecting a tiny change in spacetime using the interferometer... when the light on the one leg passes into the bubble, it would be altered, but when it then passes out again, wouldn't the alteration be "backed out" of the photon so no net change...
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    Jump Arrival Point

    don't forget, it's best practice to match velocity with the target star before jump. Stars can have significant relative velocities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_kinematics
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    Technology Marches On - The Alcubierre Drive

    here's a video of a presentation he's been doing a few places... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLc-sKvFqJw
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    Robotic ships

    well, giving a little leg up to the also-rans was the only decent thing to do, at the time. typical solomani exuberance. :wink: but yeah, I think there wold probably be an imperial high law against creating new forms of sophont. What if they do it wrong for instance? Too risky. and who's to...
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    a 3D Traveller universe

    I've been thinking an integrated powerplant/grav-generator would make for a great way to store fuel in deep space. just build a lightweight screen to protect it from direct sunlight, I think it would even stay liquid? anyway a high enough powered spherical grav plate should be able to produce at...
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    a 3D Traveller universe

    yeah. There has to be other stars, not on the map. only stars with some fuel source are listed is my theory. Military forces can maintain huge fuel depots at locations on the map with no apparent star/mainworld. It may even have a sun, but for some reason no hydrogen gas giants (or gas giant far...
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    Robotic ships

    while it may be technically possible, subject to the debates of philosophy, metaphysics, theology and the rest - "true" AI (as opposed to expert systems capable of limited cognitive processing) are simply NOT built. because why? You can not "own" your creation, much less sell it. Pinocchio just...
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    Robotic ships

    I'm not so sure it's absurd to say AI can't jump ships. First off, it's a huge change if they can, almost no background material refers to AI/robots in history. The possibility that there is some weird not-fully-understood psionic-or-otherwise component to FTL works for me. The human mind on...
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    Traveller PD News

    nice to see ADB and Star Fleet Battles universe still going. cheers! :D
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    a 3D Traveller universe

    wow, I'd never even heard of that :shock: this is a useful site: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/starmaps/
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