Recent content by Galadrion

Virushi may be more dense than most species, but I strongly suspect they will still be within a relatively small multiplier as far as that goes. I seriously doubt that Virushi muscular tissue in any way approaches classification as a superdense material...

Class B starports can build spaceships, but not starships (officially). Starships - those ships which can jump (or exceed lightspeed by other, exotic, methods) - can only be built at Class A starports (except they can also be built by appropriately equipped ships/stations with the right shipyard...

Well, you're not exactly going to have a large number of robotic passengers now, are you? There will be sophonts available.

Yeah, it's doable to use collectors to drop the ship down to 200 dT, but personally I wouldn't have done so. With a larger hull, you can make a much more capable explorer/surveyor/scout with quite a bit more flexibility. Some things I would suggest adding (while going with the original idea of a...

I'm fairly certain that it's a linear correspondence, which would mean that the nearer object would be 1 cm wide, or near enough not to make any appreciable difference. I suspect, however, that a GAS's sensitivity is more dependent on mass than on cross-section. Which means I don't really have...

If you need higher jump capability, since you're at TL14 or above there are always collectors. And the Droyne are alien enough compared to most of the Major Races to easily justify using Exotic Tech such as that.

I believe the actual word was Stutterwarp - it was an alternative tech listed in Fire, Fusion & Steel for the T:NE system, although I don't know if that's where it originated.

Scheduled maintenance, yes... but I have long since learned that not everything (especially not anything maintenance-related!) happens to schedule. (This is both in-game - evil game-masters! - and IRL - just as evil managers!), and that if possible, I want to keep a spare in reserve. Because you...

I don't have any problem with unlimited size ships (expense and build times will provide practical limits), but larger ships should also allow larger (and more powerful) weapon systems - among other systems. Right now the only weapon systems we have which allow unlimited scaling are the optional...

Hm. Robots can operate on a continuous basis, but you still need multiples of them for redundancy, error-checking each other. The old computerized "tell-me-three-times" routine. I can see arguments either way. Maybe a single robot could cover continuously, but you'd still want at least one...

As Google pointed out more than a decade ago, the French only win when they are led by someone who is not a French man. Napoleon, Jean d'Arc, as two examples.

On page 30, I just read this: "Anti-psionic technologies are also in use. The most common is a psionic shield helmet..." Am I the only one who immediately envisioned the Imperial troopers labelling the users of said helmets the "Tinfoil Hat Brigade"?

Personally, I think the argument has gotten a little rabbit-holed on the issue of battle dress and FGMPs - not every trooper is going to be fitted out with these, just as not every member of the U.S. Army rides around in an Abrams M1E3, carrying a shoulder-mounted rocket launcher. Different...

And that the Truth is Out There.

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...