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Onboard Crew Fatigue rules are your friend here too.

Whether or not this sees the light of day by Grabthar's Hammer I'd love to get that. :) A single unified table of weapons and armor? /swoon

The CT Spinward Marches book referenced previously in-thread has 36 column-inches of explanatory text on pages 9, 10, 11 that does a reasonably extensive job of telling you the main thrusts, goals, movements, and results of various theaters. I find it pretty decent. CERTAINLY enough for my own...

The text actually explains quite well where the thrusts were, why, and what the result were. It's much more than just the maps.

Fantastic, thanks!

Is there somewhere (LBB would be fine, even MegaT) a canonical simple timeline for the 5FW? Ie this fleet attacked here, that was interdicted there? I don't care about orders of battle, I'm just looking for 'backdrop'? Or is that in 5FW sourcebook?

Again, in SotA the other 2 switches control: 2) opening duration: i) stays open until closed or another tries to connect, ii) one use then closes, iii) stay open, refuse other connects and 3) "privacy"? i) accepts inbound connections freely, ii) chimes; someone on this side must approve inbound...

I like the danger aspect of psionic triggers. Seems like that's a pretty simple "it can't be taken from me and used on me" safety mechanism. Whether a non psionic can even trigger it is a question; a generous GM might allow the weapon's system itself to accept emphatic-enough non-psi use...

At least in SotA, the 'switches' beneath the portal control allowed 3 settings: 1) opaque 2) 'incomprehensible gibberish' which I presume is destination info, address, etc 3) you could see through it like a window when connected

Well, yes, that's precisely why I used the term 'aping'. Traveller certainly allows for the implementation of any of those settings (as I believe any mechanically consistent, generic, and relatively open system would as well, cf d20) but the original point seemed to implicitly genre-justify...

"Almost every" is a ridiculous exaggeration. But yes, MANY do, sure. Nothing is stopping people going ahead and making their game like that. Literally: it's their table. Traveller has never been about aping Star Wars, Blade Runner, Star Treg, BSG, Avatar, Dune, Foundation, Westworld, nor...

They put them in there to be backward compatible with LBBs. The game wasn't designed to be dominated by magic-wielding space wizards. Psionics are both limited by mechanics AND (not insignificantly) by setting and canon. There's nothing significantly wrong with the RAW except it doesn't match...

Did you ever post anything on this? I searched your username, but didn't find any.

I'm curious how/if other people apply fatigue to skills other than combat? Piloting (anything) in rough conditions feels like a good example. Do you count each skill roll as a 'fatigue hit' or do you have them check endurance to see if they're fatigued? Even Science skills should generate...

Why 2x Athletics(STR)? I haven't dug into designing robots at all, sorry if dumb question.