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Depending on which version of M-drive you're using, the ship on its own is also a WMD (either as a high sublight kinetic weapon or by hovering over a target). But if you follow that chain of reasoning, you don't get independent merchants, you get starship captains picked and trained like...

Yeah, I'm bending things a lot because I like the campaign conceit. I had in fact found the change in stutterwarp rules, though 1e doesn't explicitly say it's the STL threshold AFAICT, just the "inner system", though for practicality one would probably use the same figure. (And discharging off...

Ooh, thanks, I've been trying to track down where that came from! I'd like to credit you in the editorial - what name would you prefer?

The merchant has to consider the economics of piracy. The pirate wants a surrender, not a fight. (Historically this is why pirate flags tended to favour hourglasses and skulls, i.e. you have to decide to surrender now because if you fight and we win we are going to kill you; or for the old...

Now I'm going to go into spoiler country, specifically for Mongoose-Bayern's Interlude 5, A Long Way From Home, which is where I started this quest. (That and my construction of Azanian history, but that's for another day.) We have a specific date for the arrival of Dawn at HD27808: 2147-05-27...

It's even possible for a PDF to have different pages in different sizes/orientations. (Though you probably can't produce this automatically from the print master, so it would be more layout work.)

I suspect sources are inconsistent. Looking at Mongoose book 2 (p. 3): 2132 "first working starship" 2144 "first expedition to Alpha Centauri" It's suggested there that Wolf 359 comes later as one of the non-ESA targets/ We don't have a settlement date for Nyotekundu (because it's outposts...

Hi folks, I am putting together a fanzine for 2300AD. If you have something interesting to say about the setting that is perhaps a little longer than a blog or forum post, I'd love to include it. No money (to me or to you), but you retain copyright. (In compliance with the Mongoose policy, I'll...

Thanks for all this! Bear in mind that "my" 2300AD is focused on the Bayern campaign in its modern incarnation, and I'm quite happy to incorporate expensive bulky drive tuners as a way of making the tug approach a bit less obviously universal. Similarly with finding discharge points. I'm not...

Thanks Bryn; for clarity I am considering this only for my own games rather than potential publication, so IP isn't a concern. I was looking at the ending of Bayern and noting a reference that didn't seem to lead anywhere… Some years ago I worked out a system of transit points that can in...

Ah, thanks, I didn't consider 2320! This is mostly for colour once my Bayern expedition returns in about 2304.

What information do we have on the aliens of the Beta Aquilae cluster? Bayern's "The Return" (under Argyle 692d) implies that there are ruins being explored and a potential ship sighting. The only other reference I can find is to an old web site pointing to Travellers' Digest issues 11-12...

The current status of my project is that I'm building a web-based interface to the thing - on the basis that most people can't cope with a plain and simple command line these days - and once there's something to see, we'll see.

I've emailed with Matthew about this. Thanks for the suggestions.

I've written some software which will print out VAS (and ACTA) ship and aircraft cards, ready to play. I'd like to make this available, either for people to run on their own machines or as an on-line service. However, this would necessarily include the ship stats, or it wouldn't be much use. I...