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I do not think so, Space 1889 only uses the Victorian era's ideas of the natural sciences as fact, much like fantasy roleplaying games use medieval ideas of the working of the universe (deities, magic, etc.) as fact without making fun of the medieval peoples' ignorance. Most roleplaying games...

""Interstellar Milieu" and "Planetary Romance" are not mutually exclusive, they can be just different elements of the same fictional universe. A good example is Jack Vance's Planet of Adventures, a planetary romance in an interstellar milieu.

Yep. this is why I mentioned that during the first decades of the project most of the oxygen would immediately disappear into the planet's geochemistry. However, as you wrote the oxy- gen would be used to oxidize "every exposed rock and body of liquid", and here would be a major difference...

Well, I have been rapidly terraforming dozens of desert worlds and water worlds in my various settings, and when someone complained that my procedures were insufficiently scientific I just reminded them that my settings are in my universe and they are entitled to completely ignore it if they do...

I suspect that the impacts of asteroids or comets big enough to make a difference with their content of water etc. could cause the equivalent of a "nuclear winter", similar to a global ice age (see the theories about the impact which probably killed Earth's dinosaurs). So the asteroids or...

It makes a difference whether one has to wait a couple of million years for nature to develop highly efficient oxygen producing life forms or whether one can start with the results of millions of years of biological evolution and has the ability to genetically improve them even more. 8)

Not much information there for an educated guess, but lets give it a try ... :wink: This planet would start with a lot of water, which would make it comparatively easy to enrich the atmosphere with oxygen with the help of genetically modified marine algae, although a lot of that newly created...

... and King Philippe of Belgium and Prince Hans-Adam of Liechtenstein are not amused when they are ignored ... :lol:

Sorry, I am no longer into Traveller, and visit the forum only now and then out of a kind of nostalgia ... :oops:

Ask and you will be given ... 8) http://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Rebin_Empire

Another problem with Traveller's treatment of technology levels is the relation between core worlds and frontier worlds. The usual assumption is that core worlds have a higher technology level than frontier worlds. However, this runs into the problem that new colo- nies may use the most recent...

One of the problems is that Traveller normally uses only one general technology level which covers all of the many fields of technology, a rather simplistic approach. A planet's industry may well be advanced in one field of technology (e.g. habitats and life support systems on a hostile planet)...

True, but the reason for the more attractive long term contracts is that the colonies get more reliable offworld trade contacts with better know- ledge of the local markets and more incentive to invest in them. This is well worth a couple of credits each month.

Actually I don't care. In my settings the traders have long term contracts with colony planets and there get the fuel free, as part of the starport ser- vices covered by a single landing fee, which depends on the tonnage of the ship and the duration of the contract - the longer the contract...

Real world ports have alternatives, the port of Los Angeles is not the only port on the West Coast of the USA and has to compete with other ports in the region. A starport is often the only port of the entire planet, there is often no legal alternative. As long as the fuel price is not high...