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Rrinku replied to the thread Nexus Linkage Device?.Yeah, I wasn't saying that you NEED a gravity well at destination, just that having one might make the jump more accurate. Especially...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Nexus Linkage Device?.To be fair... it's not a wild idea that a gravity well at destination is required to make any sort of *accurate* jump. That is, the...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Personal Meson Communicators.Aright. But T5 doesn't in itself override every other previous edition of Traveller, which all say device to device, and that meson...
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RI thinks Hivers receive nest benefits at start of a first term instead of receiving the CRB basic training. That would be here: Scrub...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Personal Meson Communicators.Yeah. The whole technology is meant to be based around the first one, since it has to be a neutral particle to work how they want it to.
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Rrinku replied to the thread Personal Meson Communicators.Source? I was trawling through old editions on this and those were definitely saying you needed to know the locations of the transmitter...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Personal Meson Communicators.Neutrino comms should be both detectable and able to be broadcast. In fact, it's a feature of Neutrinos that they just keep on going...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Nexus Linkage Device?.Something else that just occurred to me looking over the 77 books. Almost all the tech is TL9 or less, and the highest tech weapon is...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Nexus Linkage Device?.Generally, LLBB2 77 didn't care about TL for ship construction at all. Weapons and Model/4 computers were all available by TL10, which...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Nexus Linkage Device?.The (fairly minor) issue wasn't the main part, but that it didn't specifically mention the usual TL cap on jump number. Since, in every...
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RIt is likely worth noting that the wiki uses T5.00 rules, the monolith edition. If I get the time I will check how it changes from 5 to...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Personal Meson Communicators.That's the same table as MegaTraveller, but reframed as cubic metres instead of metric tonnes. Which suggests someone wasn't paying...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Personal Meson Communicators.Well, it's not impossible that they intended there be small meson comms with shorter ranges. The smallest listed ones having multi...
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Rrinku replied to the thread FTL Communications?.Well, it depends on the fictional ground rules you choose to use...
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Rrinku replied to the thread Personal Meson Communicators.Okay, the wiki cites Striker, so I'll check that first. Striker just has TL15 ones. 100km range is 500kg (MCr1), 1000km is 2,000kg...
