Recent content by Jakovian

As you know, sexual drive is one of the strongest instincts among the animals known to us. In the world of Traveller, however, we encounter numerous fictional species of sentient beings. I wonder how the mating cycle looks for species like the Aslan or Vargr. Do Vargr, originating from canine...

At the moment, I'm looking for descriptions of worlds on the border of Old Expanses, and I hope there will be an answer there. I'll probably run it the way I experienced it myself when traveling to post-Soviet countries - strict control and document checking at the border, and then problems with...

I use the example of Poland because I know it best, and also because Poland was considered the "happiest barrack in the Soviet Union" - the oppression from the secret police was the lowest in Poland. Therefore, in other communist countries, it was worse, and I am looking for some analogy to the...

" The Confederation worlds along the Imperial border, which are profiting most from trade with the Imperium, are those which are most in favour of the continuation of peaceful relations. Further in from the border, where trade with the Imperium is not as important, there is greater militant...

In the early '80s, Poland was under martial law, but after that, tourists were welcomed. We even had Coca-Cola and Pepsi factories, and we produced Fiat-branded cars ;)

In the Traveller RPG, I'm familiar with all the Mongoose books, but I haven't noticed any specific information on how small traders from the Third Imperium are generally treated. And of course, different worlds may have different attitudes, but I'm interested in the global approach. As for...

Hello, I'm wondering what the border (and its control) between the Solomani Confederation and the Third Imperium looks like in the year 1105. The war ended 100 years ago, and in some places, there is information that corporations from both states trade across the border. Questions arise: a) Can...

Evolution is, of course, unclear, but since we mastered "cheap and quick" species genome reading (the Human Genome Project took us 10 years, reading the potato or Neanderthal genome took weeks), we have examined the preserved DNA of fossil human species. And we know, for example, that the...

Human "races" are not biologically races in the way that, for example, dogs are. The fact that Europeans interbred with Neanderthals and Asians with Denisovans does not make them different races biologically, because the genetic difference is too small. Phenotypic differences (e.g., skin color)...

"Terran humans exhibit up to 0.3% of Neanderthal genes in their genome, Suerrat have up to 65% of their genome in common with Neanderthals. " There are a few factual errors. First, Homo sapiens (mainly of the white race) have 2-4% of their genome directly descended from Neanderthals. This is...

@Vormaerin I'll clarify, because I can't find the source of the information - what are LASH ships? Something like Tucker Venturer Class Fast Freightliner? Some ship with a large jump drive, capable of carrying smaller ships?

I was just calculating with my player how many tons of apples fit into 1 dT - it turns out to be about 1680 tons. Unloading, splitting, and transporting 30,000 dT containers to their final destination would be heavy. It would be easier to divide them into 300x100 dt. The problem is also with...

In my opinion, there is a lack of catalogues and descriptions of the world as you did in 1st edition. In GURPS Traveller, there was a great supplement for human races. There would also be room for several handbooks on alien races, described over 3-5 pages. There are hundreds of races not...

So, I envision the logistics of transport as follows: 1) Large merchant ships jump from one system to a gas giant and then to the next. There they are quickly refueled at local facilities and make another jump. 2) Similarly large merchant ships, but without Jump engines, transport goods close to...

Fuel for interstellar travel is expensive for such poor souls as our players ;) When we talk about large-scale transport, where fuel begins to cost in the millions or billions of credits per year, it pays to build infrastructure for fuel extraction for own needs. No one in their right mind would...