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Traveller space has a huge uptick in rads flying around due to all the ships jumping around and dumping a micro-universe's worth of rays every time they move bundles of spam from system to system. In a TL 8 system with few to no inter system travel the rads are a lot lower ;)

Too bad, since that stops you from being able to do Babylon 5/Mass effect style jump gates. It would still be an easy house rule though and could make for an interesting game, go for a ship with no jump capabilities but more internal space that is restricted to the jump network or a less capable...

And that basically recreates the hyperdrive ring from the Star Wars prequels, doesn't it?

If it is dense enough to block a laser than it is effectively a solid, even if the individual grains can be manipulated into different shapes. To a radar it would appear as a massive signature.

Hmm, space boarding actions... yup, either disable the target and maybe even tell them if they dont resist the boarding then some will live. If i ever want to conduct a boarding i plan on taking a note from FTL, it is a distressed or derelict object in space that is loaded up with pirates who...

It is as sound as the players want it to be. If they like it then they wont fight the scenario... too much. You could go a lot of ways with it too, are they willingly working for SolSec or being blackmailed/coerced into it? what do they want out of it and how far will they have to go to get it...

I would assume any spacecraft rated as operationally ready would have basic security software included. Only if something is in a weird prototype or stolen before completion phase would i not assume such onboard. Other provisions such as vac suits or anti-boarding cutlasses would be extra but...

whoops. looks like i will be rereading that whole chapter tonight.

Ok, i thought something was off in my math, i had somehow doubled the accuracy bonuses. i need to review that section again when i get home. Evade is thrust points dedicated to evading and is a straight conversion of 1 pt thrust spent on evading cancels one point from the attack roll and evasive...

Ooh, i forgot about that... Must be pretty terrifying to see your space buddies flashing away into nothing as a pulse laser starts tracking you...

I am new to Traveller and slowly working through my PDF of the 2nd ed book, can someone let me know if i have this right? Pulse lasers have a +4 DM and 2D damage while beam lasers have a +8 DM and 1D... but that +8 also counts towards Effect so that an average roll from an even moderately...

Not an expert on the rules but from what i gather its limited to sandcasters... but those do pack a nice punch in an anti boarding role, enough to damage through Battledress at least.

I am far from an authority on Traveller but the first thing to jump out at me is your focus on fleet combat games. Traveller can be used to run games like that with little to no modification but that also ignores massive swaths of the game that focus on characters instead of ships. The focus of...

I wouldnt think the CERES project would be handled by an average shipyard though.

UNESCO Sol System Heritage Site maybe?