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Why do I have the vision in my head of the "oops" of people who accidentally glued their fingers together with superglue . . .

Once people have adapted their society to this technology as its material basis, they will have become dependent on it for their fundamental needs for life. The issue being ignored is what will those in power/with power do with the technology once it is available? Assuming that it will be used...

That is not just an issue with your email address verification. I get that all the time when I am trying to create, edit, or update wiki pages. I have to refresh/reload, backtrack and resubmit multiple times sometime just to do a simple edit. And in the end (especially if I have done some...

I will be there. Originally from Lancaster, PA; now in Philadelphia.

I am using Edge and it works for me.

Yeah, but if you have a ship's locker . . .

In Classic Traveller the rules made the explicit point that any character could be assigned a "0"-level skill by the referee at any time by fiat at his discretion, the implication being that the character had gotten some basic familiarization in the past with the skill without any particular...

This is a likely interpretation. Alternatively, it could mean as noted above that Frontier Worlds out on the fringes are still granted some special privileges and additional leeway and home-rule provisions that go somewhat beyond that of the standard member-world contract as practiced in the...

The quote you raised above in the OP does not say that the world (or any world) either was or is granted an Imperial Charter. It says that the Imperial Charter permits worlds to govern themselves . . . Having said that, going all the way back to the earliest CT version of the Imperium at its...

TravellerCon USA in Lancaster, PA will be doing a 50th anniversary Year of the Traveller-game special convention in 2027 (it's been on the radar for the past several years - don't know exactly what the plans are yet) and I am certain Marc Miller will be there unless health or some other life...

GURPS Traveller: First In The sourcebook is all about the IISS. (You can ignore the parts with the GURPS Game Mechanics). Also, Classic Traveller - Book 6: Scouts

Factoid: Sometimes it's both . . . Daystrom Institute Technical Library :p

Well, if you're not sending the navicomputer CPU chips good vibes of the proper resonant natural harmonic frequency . . .

But also note this from MgT2 (2022) Core Rules, p.182: The skills may be separate skills in MgT, but a given crewmember may typically have both skillsets as part of his/her normal background training (maybe specializing in one or the other, but still often knowing both - or at least a pilot...

In J-Space there is nothing for any of the Operational Crew to do except the Engineers, other than stand a watch for any incidental panel notifications or advisories. In N-Space, either the Pilot or Astronavigator sets the course, and it is fairly simple Newtonian mechanics (differential...