Recent content by ottarrus

This trailer just crossed my feed and I thought I'd share it. This has a VERY [!] 2300 feel to me and I thought many of you would like it.

Do we have a street date yet?

I got mine from QLI. It isn't available there anymore?

Another several thoughts... 1. A series of Chinese Arm adventures... that actually involve the Chinese [OK, Manchurians, but you get my point] 2. A cohesive American Arm campaign, perhaps some Aussie vs. America shenanigans. Just because they're allies doesn't mean that they don't have...

I agree with your statement, Condo, but in my estimation it only reinforces my argument. Something else to consider is that you can make a J6 corvette/escort out of a 400 dton fleet courier without having to fuss with drop tanks at all. Perhaps this is like the difference between a sprinter...

I've always thought that drop tanks were superfluous and only really suitable for a very narrow set of mission profiles. In a TL 8 Earth example, I think of them rather like Jet Assisted Take Off [JATO] packs on a C-130: Useful on occasion, but not really used all that often. Back to Traveller...

When can we expect Armies of the Fifth Frontier War to be available?

Have you ever met a player character that knew the difference? ;)

That's kind of a IYTU question, really. If you want your starports to be high security like in Star Wars, have at it. Something to consider: the Third Imperium DOES NOT have the Posse Comitatus Act of 1876 that separates the power of the military and law enforcement. If duly authorized by both...

Well, after an item leaves the factory floor, it's dead weight. The manufacturer wants it sold before it's even built. Until the item is sold to a buyer, it's just taxable inventory.

Depends on the port. There are a lot of Class A ports in the Trojan Reach that barely make the minimum standards floating over worlds that really don't need that level of service. OTOH, there are a lot of Class B ports in Mora, Rhylanor, and Trin's Veil that could use the upgrade to Class A but...

My logic for J3 is that if you're moving multiple thousands of tons of cargo, your markets are not gonna be J1 from each other. Yes, you're loosing an additional 20% of hulls space to fuel, but you're gaining transit time from maker to purchaser.

For sheer number of hulls flying, I would suspect that it's a freighter in the 1000 ton range. Probable performance is J2 or 3 and 1 or 2 G. Most cargo doesn't move via tramp traders. Cargo moves from manufacturing point to distribution point in large cargo ships. The cargo is the broken down...

Contracts to do what, exactly? Pathfinding... aka finding a suitable world, surveying the world, and selecting a colony site? A team of PCs isn't large enough to actually prepare a colony site for occupation. That's essentially a construction project requiring lots of workers, expensive...

Ok the difference between the two milieux is the Official Traveller Universe [OTU] and the 2300 milieu. Starting a colony is HUGELY expensive in either universe, but it is far more expensive in 2300. There's a lot more too it than just getting 25 friends to build cabins on zero population...