Recent content by rinku

Oh, and regarding the 5000 ton minimum hull vs distributed hulls. The main distributed hull we have is the Lab ship, which has a diameter of roughly 60m. The diameter of a 5000 ton sphere is... about 50m. So it certainly passes the pub test for widely placed sensors, even though the hull is only...

Ha! Unknown to you I distributed my consciousness seconds before posting!

All of the traders and other civilian ships do only have Civilian (TL9) sensors, without NAS or Densitometers, unless some ship owner has paid to upgrade. Are you looking at some edition other than MGT2e? Edit - oh, I see what you mean. Better radar and lidar without the other stuff. I guess.

Anything can be rebadged, but the classic stuff that relies on specific Charted Space elements needs more work. If it relies on Zhodani being psionic commandos and YTU does not have psionics, you'll need to change something or use something else. If you have no ancient precursors, most of the...

Maybe also cut Dispersed Hulls a break in regards to the size of hull needed, or not being able to maneuver with extended arrays, since they're already built that way.

The only things the Imperials would be generally concerned with would be slaves and nukes. Or stuff relating to security, I guess - transporting enemy agents across the border could be considered smuggling, as would running guns to an Ine Givar cell. Otherwise, it's local law, although I do get...

That's a very good point. Even if the tank is sucked dry to a near vacuum, the external near vacuum isn't going to crumple anything. I was just talking about getting the contents out - you may not NEED collapsing tanks at all, given that the liquid hydrogen is under considerable pressure.

All jump plots are specific to a time and place of jump; if the jump doesn't happen when and where the plot was calculated for, it starts to become less reliable, within a range. But the less precise a jump needs to be, the less this would be of a concern; jumping to an empty hex in order to...

I mean we might be overthinking this a bit. Rapid transfer from the tank just needs lower pressure outside the tanks and a valve opened. There's any number of basic cryogenic liquid to cold gas to hot gas techniques to move it all around quickly. I'm not actually sure mechanically reducing the...

Printer ribbons are also in Cassettes. But I'm struggling to find anything much that's in one that is not spooled. Otherwise (and often instead) it's cartridges.

Realistically, increasing the antenna size works at all tech levels. Occam's razor says lose that line about only working with Improved and Advanced sensors. Keep the ship size restriction on the Distributed array, though - that passes the reality check. We've been using distributed sensors to...

I just noticed I was about half a dozen posts late on that idea, so I deleted it :ROFLMAO: Probably the simplest setup would be a tank that's normally collapsed, but expands and is held rigid by the pressure as its filled. So all you need to do is open the valve to drain it. Of course, even a...

Thanks S. I was not doubting you but was holding off a full LBB search. And it makes sense. The ship has transitioned to and from Jumpspace and spent a week there. You would expect that things would have been stressed, parts maybe approaching failure. Flight checks would be highly reccommended...

The late Aaron Allston's Strikeforce is generally considered a great treatment of campaign design and gamemastering. Don't worry about it being based on a Champions campaign, it's applicable to most groups.

The rules do say Cassettes, but all a cassette IS is a housing for tape reels*. Term was invented by Phillips, from the French for "little case". VCR stands for videocassette recording, but you rarely called them anything other than VCR tapes or video tapes.. Properly, other swappable data are...