Recent content by Galadrion

Depending on the human, I'd say it ranges from "uplifted chimpanzee" to "downrated baboon".

Because a polar orbit, by necessity, moves relative to the ground underneath it and the useful property of a geostationary orbit is the property of remaining stationary relative to the ground point directly beneath the orbital platform. See, a geostationary orbit is moving around the planet at...

The default amount of SU have storage space which does not come from cargo space. If a crew decides to pack extra supply units (oversupply), that can be stored in the cargo holds at the stated rate (1 ton per hundred SU), but these are not stored to be easily accessible - I believe the Naval...

I'm sure you would. The watch is almost certainly cheaper... which is why the corporation would prefer it.

I suspect it's simply a matter of what happened to get submitted. The bulk of JTAS contents are community-contributed, so what gets included depends on what the various contributors come up with.

Those elements are a part of T5 - although T5's generation procedures are different and generate different distributions. If I'm not mistaken, there are also some differences in nuance between the two systems. (Gier mentioned these issues - admittedly, somewhat offhandedly so it's easy to...

Just remember, the mainworld isn't the only reason to visit a system. Spectacular gas giant scenery, maybe spelunking in asteroid cavities, secondary world sightseeing or holiday resorts. Face it, why would anybody rational from a nation with a high standard of living visit an allegedly...

The Portfolio rules have now been imported to MongTrav2; they are in JTAS Volume 13, page 34, "Becoming the 1%".

It would be easier to detect than you think, but not from occlusion. An interstellar rock starts emitting hard radiation from collisions with interstellar gas well before its velocity reaches 0.0002 c - a speed which would mean the rock would take more than 15 millennia to cross a single parsec...

Thanks! This is going to make it a lot easier for me to make use of your designs in my own. The robot crewmembers and the autoberths both make a huge amount more sense then the official options. Just a quick edit to alert you to this: on your Robotic Crew page, you've got these two links -...

It works with Brave (which is - more or less - Firefox). Now I'd really like to see the same sort of thing for your robots and autoberths. For some reason, the .xlsx format won't work with Apache OpenOffice, and I refuse to pay what MacroSquish wants for a subscription service.

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...