Recent content by Sigtrygg

If the nobility tightly controls who has access to which technologies, maintains lots of planets at less than ideal TLs, and enforces trade only on its terms... not exactly a free market economy, nor a liberal culture...

Scarcity driving up cost does not pass the "trivial for a TL9 culture" test. With the maneuver drive and fusion power asteroid mining and effectively unlimited quantities of elements become available. Here is the real world we have identified several asteroids that contain enough gold...

To quote LBB:4 "The tech level 8 laser carbine (page 43) is used as a range finder and target designator, as well as a personal weapon in an emergency."

Not unless you have the range finding electronics receiver built in, otherwise they are a cat toy.

Well that latest drop from the Singularity campaign pushed me right into the cosmic horror of it all... (the Embodiment Guide) Naalir doesn't delete the memory/personality data packets - every instance of a character that embodies via the xboat network is still an electronic copy within the...

I get the feeling you are thinking about MgT1e. Classic, Mega, TNE, one round per pull of the trigger is one attack. Same with T4 and T5, GT and HT. Only MgT 1e tried to get away with abstract ammo, and thankfully they dropped that for 2nd edition. Yes it did, don't make me quote every single...

The core rule book 2024 has one attack is one shot, one round of ammunition, does it not? What am I missing?

So how many rounds do you fire during a combat round for one attack, this is rather important in scenarios where ammo is limited and the enemies are numerous (a certain very popular adventure springs to mind...) My reading of the rules is that one shot is one round and one attack, unless you...

One attack with a semi automatic handgun uses how many rounds of ammunition?

The planets that are detailed in the depot systems are not the IN depot, they are the civilian worlds that are legal to visit, possibly. The actual depot occupies real estate outside of the control of the planetary government. Look at the TL for each of those depot containing systems - you...

Trade wars are covered extensively in The Traveller Adventure. Makers are assembler/disassembler, CAD/CAM, 3D printers, on stroids. They need the correct raw materials to make their stuff, the correct raw materials may even include chips that are better manufactured in dedicated chip...

I would say not if they are "career", an ex-noble (one who followed the noble career but has now mustered out) is another matter. A working noble has an income from the stuff their family personally owns, a cut of the take a share of the tax/tariff income (Cleon Industries dividend), an income...

As I keep mentioning, the alternative name for the Third Imperium is Cleon Industries - the megacorporation. The Imperial family and nobles are really shareholders in Cleon Industries, the Moot is a shareholders meeting. The other megacorporations are only allowed to incorporate if they offer...

Reading the entire sentence through - it is referring to the construction of prototypes of new ships, not mass production of the fleet vessels. Supplying entire fleets... so the consumables a fleet needs providing construction and repairs... it does not say construction of fleet vessels, you...

I would say no. It produces prototypes at its own r&d depot facilities and then puts the plans out to tender with the ship construction yards. If anyone can find any canon references to the IN building the majority of its fleet at its own yards I would like to see it, so far I have not been...