Recent content by robertsconley

Despite my knowledge about space, I am well aware there only so far one again go far with the technical challenges. Even when you successfully get away from crunching the numbers. A campaign about near future space has to be more than about the hardware or even the missions, the human element...

For folks who may be interested in this stuff. Maneuver Plans For delta-vee maneuvers, you will need a plan of maneuvers (burns) to get from where you are now to where you want to be. Unlike most vehicles, you are not concerned with how long you can move for. Rather, you are concerned with how...

You actually have two cases to account for: continuous thrust, like with an ion drive, and traditional maneuvers using chemical rockets, where you burn specific amounts of delta-v at specific times. In either case, any maneuver plan is going to have built-in leeway to account for the fact that...

So the thing to keep in mind with orbital mechanics is that it’s not going to be a Star Fleet Battles–style hex grid, nor will it resemble classic Traveller, Triplanetary, or other vector-based systems, or even range-band combat. The issue is that the gravity of the body you’re orbiting...

Exactly, the High Frontier Boardgame has a map of the Solar System that is basically an energy map. I've been working on my own version off and on for a number of years. So nodes and junctions represent spots where burns can take place where each burn is roughly 2.5 km/s of Delta Vee...

I second the use of CC-BY. It offers the broadest range of compatibility with the different types of open content licenses used for RPGs.

Something that may be of interest to this project. Supposed to have 25% better efficiency than normal liquid-fueled Rocket Engines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_detonation_engine https://images.nasa.gov/details/PN068%20HF-12-hd%2009-27-2023

You may want to check out this series originally on the National Geographic channel (or Disney Plus). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_(American_TV_series) Particularly Season Two where the international outpost on Mars has to deal with a newer private outpost.

Thanks whatever you and Mongoose can do will be appreciated.

I am glad you are continuing the RQII system under another name. Just so you know there is already a Wayfarer RPG out there. http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=2556&products_id=59182

I can't be give any definite dates but I am currently pursuing independent publishing and part of my plan is to do Traveller stuff as part my cycle of products. I have some ideas putting this stuff into action. http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-make-traveller-sandbox.html What...

Long before Traveller 4 and it Year Zero Mileau was published. I decided to define how the Third Imperium worked in my game. Based on the few canonical hints I came up with the Articles of the Incorporation of the Third Imperium...

CorelDraw 13. A free open source alternative Inkscape at http://www.inkscape.org has the same capabilities. The subsector maps were exported from Galactic v2.3

I created a handout for a campaign that I ran using the Traveller Adventure. I posted it for anybody to use for their own games. The first sheet is probably of most use as would apply to any game in the Third Imperium http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2009/07/adventure-that-is-traveller.html...

Via the 1.5 by 1.5 meter shaft near (f). It goes through the fuel taken into the bottom deck. Yes, the two square shaft has a cargo lift and can be sealed with a movable bulkhead when there is fuel down there. Actually the three square area aft is where the fuel is being drawn in and it is...