Recent content by Terry Mixon

This. I went with docking clamps for reliability beyond what the rules mention. The external cargo mounts seem so as hoc.

Docking clamps holding 18 50,000 pods external to the ship. These have fuel but I have cargo, low berth, and passenger pods, too.

I don’t have a drop tank variant to test. I’ll have to work one up to know for sure. It probably would make it but I’ll find out for sure tomorrow.

This ship doesn’t use drop tanks. The 680,000 tons is all internal. The 1,000,000 ton tender carries an additional 900,000 tons of external pods and the engines are made to jump 4 with 1,900,000 tons of load. Once it has jumped out and dropped the 900,000 tons of pods it can draw out 360,000...

It’s a pod tender. 1,000,000 tons of ship that jumps out with 900,000 in extra pods with its overpowered drives. Once the pods are dropped there, it is 900,000 tons lighter, so that is why the jump back uses less fuel. The 360,000 for the jump back comes from the original amount brought.

@MasterGwydion, look back at my last post. I have the numbers for you.

If one of my J4 Hercules jumps 2 parsecs, it could drop off 838,710 tons of fuel in pods and have enough fuel on board to get back to their origin point. Getting that fuel out there takes the 680,000 tons of fuel. They could create fuel dumps that way. EDIT: Acfually, it would be different...

I’d have to run the numbers, but I’d expect it to fall short of fuel.

*looks at @MongooseCassie with pleading eyes*

Maybe a robot avoiding detection as nonbiological is part of Camouflage: Olfactory Concealment. Not avoiding detection in this case, but mimicking a living being.

I got annoyed that unskilled people got more than those with some knowledge, so I house rule it that the skill level provided is bandwidth -1 for everyone. Added on, if someone has the skill as bandwidth -1 (and only if) they get it at bandwidth. It makes the more expensive ones worth the money.

I like the sound of this.

They keep making noises about a Merchant Prince book. When they do that, hopefully @MongooseMatt and crew will change speculative trade and broker rolls to be opposed like the rest of the skills.

Open! Open! Open!