Recent content by Tobias

No.

K'kree might, if it was an actual OG G'naak world. Otherwise none of the above, nor any other major power would IMTU. At least not if it was a medium or high population world. Destroying an outpost of thousands or tens of thousands of people for alleged reasons of military necessity, possibly...

Looks fine to me (although the picture of the ship should be downscaled a bit). Then again, the Classic Traveller I grew up with always had illustrated covers like this:

Looks good. One question: Will it be possible to make CT-TAS covers with artwork on them?

... has what to do with the Zhodani?

Ironically, the Consulate is among the more pluralistic governments in the OTU. Definitely, among the three major human powers, it is the least tyrannical. The Imperium is a hereditary monarchy. The Solomani Confederation is a single party oligarchy. The Zhodani Consulate is a limited-franchise...

About 20% of the population are nobles or intendants. In government agencies, probably more. Even if only a small fraction of them works for the Thought Police, that's sufficient to check on everyone regularly (every few weeks by conservative estimate.) You don't need any of that. You ask...

I do not, indeed. Because there is nothing to indicate that a shield works any other way than "up (and noticeable" or "not up".

No Zhodani are. Which means they can do it how many times a month? How many jumps inside the Consulate you think your prole-spy can travel before being weeded out? 1? 2? 4?

No. Probe can explicitly determine lies easily. That does not mean that other methods cannot determine lies. If, while I'm talking to you, I ask you something and you lie, your current active thoughts are going to reflect that. An initial reading of surface thoughts needs to do nothing more than...

In Classic Traveller, they were absolutely going to be mass mind reading. Surface thoughts is usually enough when talking to someone because they nedd to consciously lie when answering your questions. So, during the job interview or any routine security check, you'd be done for. Of course, with...

Those of everybody who works in any sensitive position, before they start working in that position. And regularly after. Seriously, think of any spying conducted anywhere ever. And then ask yourself: Would this have happened if the government being spied upon had the ability to routinely...

"Some sections" is a major understatement. AFAICS all the actual information on Zhodani society is copy-pasted from GTAR1. ;) I found that out only much later (had never bothered to check the wording). Maybe that was for the best. I butted heads a bit in this forum with Don McKinney over other...

Which translates into: There is no chance in hell a non-psionic Imperial posing as a Prole is not found out in the short term.

The MgT vibe (and for the military and government services, the almost explicit statement) is that a Prole can never hold a position of authority over an Intendant or Noble in any situation. [NOTE: That this is quite different from how it was in the CT Alien module.] So the scenario where an...