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    rinku replied to the thread An Alternate Take On Fabrication Rules.
    Such a specific example. What. Technologies. Are. Listed. In. Each. Product. That. Have. Different. Tech. Levels?
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    rinku reacted to AnotherDilbert's post in the thread A question about collectors with Like Like.
    Sure, why not? There is only one type of jump drive, not a special type for collectors. Note: It's the power plant that burns the...
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    rinku replied to the thread Feeding a High Population, Non-Agricultural world.
    It might be worth noting the section in WBH that says Native Sophonts are assumed to be adapted to their homeworld and ignore minimum TL...
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    rinku replied to the thread Drop tank mounted fuel/cargo tanks.
    Well, no. It just means that the equipment being described isn't that. It seems to be large boxy structures bolted onto the hull. Cheap...
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    rinku replied to the thread Bridge tonnage discrepancy.
    As there is exactly ONE 100 ton design plus one variant of it in High Guard, and THAT one has good reason to install a robust bridge to...
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    rinku replied to the thread Mating Airlocks to Cargo Hatches.
    Yeah, but all of it is considered in terms of what will fit into a cargo hold, PC, NPC, whoever. Packaging HAS to be part of that.
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    rinku replied to the thread Mating Airlocks to Cargo Hatches.
    It will only ever come up if you own a cargo and are actually unpacking it for use, I would say.
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    rinku replied to the thread Mating Airlocks to Cargo Hatches.
    Since cargo and freight in Traveller is framed from the point of view of the carrier, tonnage would be containers, not how much is in...
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    rinku replied to the thread Mating Airlocks to Cargo Hatches.
    It's a shipping term. Actual technical jargon. The people doing the shipping don't actually care what the interior capacity is - that's...
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    rinku replied to the thread Historic tech levels.
    TLDR: It's likely that in the short timeframe the Colonists were isolated they retained most of their existing, mature interstellar...
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    rinku replied to the thread Historic tech levels.
    All planets are going to vary in this, especially ones that have developed in isolation. You pretty much need to assess each world on a...
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    rinku replied to the thread Historic tech levels.
    And keep in mind, they arrived in the Marches only 400 years before the year zero. Imperial traders had made contact by year 73...
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    rinku replied to the thread Historic tech levels.
    As far as I know, no. As the others have suggested, it's likely that the original TL12 ship and its people would not have counted as...
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    rinku replied to the thread Drop tank mounted fuel/cargo tanks.
    Back to external cargo frames - they can't be used on streamlined ships (presumably the frames themselves permanently make the ship...
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    rinku replied to the thread Drop tank mounted fuel/cargo tanks.
    No, I think transferring fuel or cargo from a jump net into the ship would be a space suit (or robot/drone) job. Not a particularly...
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