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Yeah, no doubt it would work out that way that x-boats would carry packets. But also some information, since J6 is not going go everywhere. But it doesn't resolve the insider trading problem. Maybe it is ok; just assume that some people with high jump ships are making money off arbitrage -...

Knowing about movements in markets sooner than the crowd gives big opportunities to benefit from trading off this information. Those with access to a J6 communication network would find out about things they can make big money on before those who have to wait for the X-boat. However, this would...

Traveller characters don't hold up well against getting hit by things powerful enough to penetrate their armour. Combat efficiency goes downhill pretty quick when you start taking damage. A typical D&D boss fight where everyone stands around trading damage tends not to work out so well, unless...

True, but you don't want to count on it having that much velocity relative to the target. It might be too close to the target. It might have to catch up with a fast fleeing target. You want it to do lots of damage regardless of relative velocities. Also, it might just punch through the...

Animals as monsters are somewhat more difficult to turn into major dangers in Traveller, since not being killed is often just a question of having the right gear, and animals evolve to do things in their ecosystem, which generally does not involve being optimized to crunch through combat armour...

I don't mean "stop" per se, obviously, since that concept is meaningless in this context. I mean stop accelerating and go ballistic.

At these ranges of 1000s or 10000s of kms, the accuracy has to be phenomenal to hit at all. No doubt it is, but I have no trouble believing that microscopic imperfections in various parts of the weapon are sources of inaccuracy that cause misses, which are then corrected for until a hit is...

In Spitzbergen, the policy in the shops and restaurants is that you don't bring the guns inside, but luckily there is no charge for storage. It saves on having to argue with gun-toting customers about whether they should stow their guns.

If that's the place your players are at, it's probably best to put them in a war zone and just throw hand grenades at them constantly.

Hard to be the main character in your own personal movie if you're wearing a helmet.

exactly. Armour is a type of clothing, and as Shakespeare wrote, "The apparel oft proclaims the man", or as Mark Twain put it "Naked people have very little influence in society" - the same could be said of amoured people. In general, you need clothes appropriate to the context. If you are...

I think something along these lines was depicted in Avenue 5; it did not go well.

obviously, it could go either way in a SF setting depending on what assumptions you make. But unlimited cheap transmutation basically makes trade and prospecting pointless. It also makes it hard to come up with resource limits to drive the plot. Trade is a part of the game. Resources...

Form does not follow function. The right way to do things is to start with an iconic form, and then try and think up a function to justify it. We want our cool lab ships, whether they make sense or not! That said, getting better triangulation opportunities for sensors does make sense. Though...

Depot in Corridor has native sophonts: https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Camh_Ranh_(world) An Amber Zone is not restricted travel (except maybe by your insurance company). It is just a danger warning from a private entity. Depot Systems and actually Red Zones as well are going to have travel...