Recent content by J. L. Brown

My opinion: Missiles, railguns, mass-drivers, torpedoes, and sand all (per-shot) cut into the volume available to carry cargo, which is a big reason merchants would tend to shy away from them. Particle, Fusion, and Meson weapons all have the 'Radiation' trait, so would all be very likely to be...

Such a missile, starting from a dead stop, has also covered 635000+ kilometers.

Thank you.

I seem to remember rules for self-destruct equipment for starships. I do not remember where I saw it, and I couldn't find it on the design sheet. Am I mis-remembering, or has anyone else found rules for a ship self-destruct? If so, a title & page would be very helpful.

That is a well reasoned, logical argument -- and the quoted text supports it well. Unfortunately, it is incorrect. The official Mongoose stance is that screens reduce damage AFTER multipliers. This is covered in several threads. Your interpretation is a common house-rule.

My summary tab looks very different -- only columns A through D have values, and only rows down to 339 have any contents. I am moving the Excel file to Google sheets, then exporting it as .ods -- are you getting yours imported through a different route?

Speaking as a Libre user, I am not sure I understand how the 'Breakaway Hull' option works. I have a 5000 dTon hull, with the 'Breakaway' option; that means I should set aside 100 dTons for the Breakaway mechanism. That works. But then the 'unused space' on my ship changes, I get an extra...

I strongly suggest Rao mentions 'We want to do regime change on systems hostile to us' and a quick summary of the whole end-game in 'Finale' where they need to convince worlds to join up based on their political stances. This is NOT expressly mentioned in the adventure, but it certainly is the...

Also note -- building a robot to be equivalent to a Battledress suited Marine is considerably more difficult & expensive than just building a robot to replace the Marine inside the Battledress. Plus, as you point out, having robots use equipment-designed-for-humans can greatly simplify...

This is at least the fourth time this section of rules has been cited; and it seems you still have not read it. You seem to think it supports your point, when it does the exact opposite. No, Sensors do * NOT * provide 'Minimal' information at 'Very Distant' or 'Far' range; the quoted rules do...

As you said; 'Very Distant' and 'Far' specifically do nothing to increase the amount of information reported by sensors -- they are all still 'None' at these ranges. The only extra information (above 'None') is that things which generate a jump-flash may be (presence or absence) detected, and...

No argument there. On the other hand, step outside & look up. You can certainly see the Sun, which is ~148 million km away & the occupies the same number of milliradians of arc in the sky as the Moon; but sometimes (like at the new moon) the moon -- even much closer -- is extremely difficult...

I am reading the rules. Page 160 in the Core Rules update: When the table says 'None', I interpret that to mean 'None'. Sensors report no information; not a detection, not an identification, not a friend-or-foe, not a firing solution. Nothing. That sensor is Out Of Range. Distant is not...

Distributed Arrays and Extended Arrays do exactly the same thing; they are not cumulative. In my copy, they allow EM Sensors to gain 'Minimal' information at Distant range; and Passive Radar/Lidar to get 'Minimal' data at Long Range. Active Radar/Lidar already gets 'Minimal' information at...

Ah, high-tech super sensors. of course! Yes, I had overlooked that! Please point me to the pages where they are defined; I am stuck using p 76 of the HGU 2022: And p 160 of the Core Rules Update. Apparently 'minimal information' (whether or not an object is 'active' in EM) for 'EM sensors'...