Recent content by ProfGrizzlyJon

This is a great example of a critical review. I went through a period where the campaign centered on Second Contact with a psionic and biotech focused race. We spent about a year running games involving blockade running, counter imperialism, espionage and the like. This resulted in more than a...

Heinlein introduced neodogs in Starship Troopers. Those are great for improved animal stock. S. Andrew Swann drafted a dystopian future surrounding uplifts. These are great examples for Uplifts- I have used them often.

I did one for space combat and dogfights. It is prt of a bundle on DriveThru. Might be worth breaking out on its own

T5 had some interesting terms that I use to categorize. Data Access: User Required. This is the TL-7 Interface, TL-11 Intelligent Interface and the TL-11 Digital Friend Task Enabler: User Required. This is the TL-11/13 Expert Task Resolver: User Not Required. This is the TL-11/14 Agent, and...

Sorry- I was distracted by PNT

Complicated at TL-7, but maybe not so much at TL-9+?

GSO is only relevant if you have no reactionless station-keeping. I can accelerate a ship to balance out the rotational speed and effectively maintain a GSO (see previous posts with some math)

Exactly. GPS satellites transmit continuously, but they send one-way timing signals rather than responding to two-way range pings. Each GPS satellite broadcasts a precise time code and orbital ephemeris (position and velocity), allowing the receiver to measure how long the signal took to arrive...

A Geo-Ranging Navigation System (GRNS) is a radio-navigation method that uses a geostationary satellite as a fixed reference point in space. By timing a radio signal’s round trip to the satellite, it determines range—the distance between the receiver and that orbital beacon. Combined with...

That depends- geosynchronous orbit is still "orbit".

I always read the CRB as a singular beacon (aka the starship or a survey probe). GPS is a network, so I dropped it one level of difficulty. Based on personal experience, so the players can experience the joy of not wanting to wait until all five satellites are picked up while in a firefight, and...

Considering that Navigate by GPS (clear sky, good signal): Easy (4+) Navigation check (1D×10 minutes, INT or EDU), this is more than capable of "doing the job" But the TL-10 version is better.

Have you considered making the weapons microbots? Granted, the pistol is biological, but these epaulets are not.

Or, you could have an expensive Mobile Comm case like this one that weighs 0 kg (and also gives you night vision to see the stars):

No, it also came from 2300AD. I wouldn't toss that kind of red herring out there, Page 107, New Skills Informatics This is the skill used to search databases and run networkbased search inquiries. Informatics can be taken in place of the Computer skill, in all careers. And Mindjammer: