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There are at last count 38 books that have High Guard components in them. I uploaded a document on the first page the lists what is in what book. It is 37 as I have not uploaded the new version since they added 1 piece of new equipment Singularity adventure.

That is difficult to say, because the closer you get that more interference, I would expect. Also like the Hubble Telescope it is to sensitive to be use on very close objects, and very close in space terms could still be millions of km. Just my opinion no rules to back it up.

@MasterGwydion I do have to revise my statement a little and apologize. Readying the first line of the Gravitational Analysis Suite says this "A gravitational analysis suite permits the detection and analysis of extremely weak gravitic phenomena. It can be used to predict the presence of objects...

I don't think there is a question as to the existence of a ship exiting a jump point, or the location its exit. But there is nothing to see after it exits and moves from that point. It doesn't say that you ca see the ship enter a jump point from that distance.

Except you are witnessing them emerging from the jump and not entering a jump. The only information that the gravitational analysis suite is that something arrived there. it tells you nothing of what t was or any additional information about the ship, so at that point you just see a blip. You...

Read the limitations of the gravitational analysis suite. Yes you can detect somethin 1 parsec away, in 3.26 years. "Of course, since gravity waves propagate at the speed of light, a jump emergence detected in a system one parsec away will have occurred over three years previously"

The other issue is the Vastness of the system, you may be able to tell what system they are likely jumping to but there is no way to tell where in the system they were targeting. You could arrive on the opposite side of the system from them and that is to far to tell where they are.

I am currently running a Merchant Campaign where the characters are beyond the Vanguard Reach running supplies to new colonies. The ship has powerful engines not to go further but so they can haul more stuff in the form of Docking Clamps, Jumpnets, any and everything they can get their hands on...

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Oh BTW I have come across the word Shutterwarp but have no idea what it is. A quick search said that it is a pseudo-FTL for 2300AD. but no real information on how it works.

Now this is sounding more like a Mage the Awakening plot.

The perfect culprit is MixCorp, don't you think??????

That was the thought going through my mind, Some 300-400 years pass an then Charted space was invaded by an outside force, mass war ensued followed my a dark period. The played jump XXX number of years into the future to find the devastation. The find information on how this happened and then...

If I was to play with this idea, I would need to determine what technology looks like in whatever era I drop them in. I have been looking around and I do not find any indication of how long, in general, does it take for a general uplift from one tech level to another. How long did it take for...

Interesting, but not quite I was looking for.