Recent content by StephenT

:?: The original Scout/Courier deckplan from CT includes an air/raft which is about 3 tons (six decksquares) in size, and once you add in the hangar it's over four tons.

The thing is, though - it's the Imperial Army that carries out the police actions and counter-insurgency ops and conventional campaigns, where avoiding collateral damage and civilian casualties is important. The Imperial Marines are different. They're the Emperor's hammer. They only get called...

You'd ignore them, because while real space might be 3D, Jump Space is 2D... and there's no way to reach Polaris from Sol using Jump Drive. 8)

The red on black colour for the Ziru Sirka symbol is certainly what GURPS:Interstellar Wars uses in its illustrations, although I couldn't find any comment about it in the text. The original boardgame 'Imperium', on the other hand, has it the opposite way around: smaller black circle on a...

In the OTU, the starport isn't legally part of the planet at all, and local laws don't apply there. It's an enclave of Imperial territory. You are perfectly free to land on the starport on a law level 9+ world. What you can't do is step over the extraterritoriality line. Think West Berlin...

Unfortunately, the Gross Tonnage of a modern-day waterborne ship is calculated using a sliding scale involving logarithms, and my maths isn't up to it. :( If you are better at maths than me, the formula is: Gross tonnage = (0.2 + 0.02 * log(Volume)) * Volume (Volume is measured in cubic...

A frigate called 'Nivose' is probably a Republic of Haven ship, actually. :)

That's pretty much the way TNE did handle it, actually. The whole "killer AI plague wiping out humanity" was part of the setting's backstory, not its central concept. By the time PC parties started heading out again to rebuild civilisation, Virus had already evolved into multiple different...

By way of a change, here's my own campaign description of Vincennes/Deneb, for which I wrote up a very detailed description and history using the GURPS sourcebooks, based on what little canon information we have about the world. I did my best to make it an interesting place to visit. :)...

Here I'm going to quote from the first chapter of 'On Basilisk Station' by David Weber: If you're not as graceful as Commander Harrington, I imagine moving from zero-G to the starship would be rather more awkward. :)

Unfortunately, it doesn't work like that. Try putting your hand against the back of your refrigerator at home. Does it feel cold to the touch? If it does you've got a problem, because it should be hot. Chilling hydrogen down until it turns liquid requires pumping all the heat energy out of it...

That's how HeroQuest does it too. Let's say Magnus the Magician is a member of the Iron Blood School, which owns two grimoires: the Book of Conflict and the Mysteries of Health. Each grimoire holds a dozen different spells. Magnus, however, has only learned three from the first book and one...

A grimoire is a book of spells, but it's also a powerful magical artefact in its own right. A sorceror needs to attune himself to a grimoire and study it carefully, often for many years. (In game terms: acquire a skill or ability related to it). By doing this, he learns to draw on the power of...

Just to clarify: it's not that the ceiling is 3m high, but that there's a distance of 3m between one deck and the one above. (3.11m, to be exact.) The ceiling itself might only be 2.5m high, leaving a 61 centimetre gap between decks. That's where I assume all the life support equipment...

Sure. They all have the same concept of fteir now. The clans with different concepts all got wiped out. :twisted: In other words: no, I don't think the precise form of fteir promoted in the Aslan Heirate of 1100 is biologically programmed into all Aslan; rather that certain aspects - like...