Recent content by Galadrion

Actually, nothing in the current edition says that jump fuel goes into power production. I can easily see the usage instead consisting of hydrogen getting converted into "exotic particles" which are used in the jump process - exotic particles which the collector gathers directly, bypassing the...

Actually, I don't think it replaces the power plant. The entry specifically says that the collector eliminates the need for fuel, not the need for power. As far as I can see, you still need to power the jump drive. But I can easily run with the idea that a jump drive can switch between using...

I have a question for the rules experts here regarding collectors and jump drives: if you have a jump drive which is connected to a collector, can it also use hydrogen fuel, for example if the collector has been used and not yet recharged? I can see arguments either way - what do the folks here...

Just remember, if you're forced into cannibalism, vegans are the closest thing to grass-fed you've got... (Yeah, I know, poor taste.)

Somebody's a fan of the classics, I see...

Well, not entirely. While it will radically change the balance of values, it won't completely eliminate the value of those material, which will still have a great deal of engineering and other uses. (Gold, for instance, has a fair amount of aesthetic value in addition to its use in electronics...

Yaskodray did... just not here.

It could be done short-term, but drainage (among other things) will quickly become a problem. Longer term, crop rotation will become an issue, unless you completely strip the spent dirt out and replace the entire ecosphere periodically - say, every five growing cycles, tops.

My house rule on ship/starbase construction times has long been (square root of the tonnage, rounded up, in days) times (jump drive capability plus one). I have a few others, such as allowing construction in microgravity to use more than one construction bay (even on separate ships/bases) to...

As long as you're talking about stars in the vicinity of Charted Space, stellar motion isn't an insurmountable issue in jump targeting. If you allow observational information about where your target is to be outdated by four years per parsec (an overly-generous tolerance), a star will typically...

For those weapon systems that use the trait, how is the Auto trait meant to be applied to starship scale weaponry? I don't think I've seen this clarified in any of the current rules.

I'm Number Thirteen! Quick! Someone fetch us a hobbit!

I believe the Small Craft Catalogue is the later publication, and the rules on fuel tank size were explicitly updated therein. That would indicate to me that the SCC should be regarded as the current standard.

They weren't necessarily more advanced than the Ancients - as advanced could easily do the job, or even less advanced but much more numerous. Remember, the actual Ancients numbered, canonically, less than 450 individuals. That brings me to a related though which occurred to me last night: The...

You could replace all crew functions, except the Astrogator under RAW. (And honestly, I do away with that in my home games - I see nothing wrong with automatic Astrogation. The only shipboard function I really restrict is the autonomy of the captain... and that can be gotten around with a...