Recent content by WHULorigan

That is correct. Depending on ruleset, recharging will take anywhere from 7 to 10 days in any unstressed space (MgT / T5) or 1-6 weeks with a nearby star (CT). But at least with the non-CT version, there is the strategic advantage of being able to cross a rift-space of any size; there are no...

Just seal up the seams on the unit with Krazy-gluonsTM and you'll be fine.

⬆️ What he said. :)

I am the opposite. Unless a constraint or specification is made in a question, I will almost always default to a synthesis of the available material. Yes, understood. They ought to be there, and SS3 was a CT/JTAS insert that was a missile expansion for CT: Book 2 Starship Combat, and had...

Your initial question was: NOT I could delve into the MgT2 sourcebooks containing Starship weapons and expansions to them to see what versions and derivatives of nuclear missiles exist in MgT2 explicitly across the various publications, but I frankly do not have the motivation to do so. And...

Sure, but a camshaft doesn't violate conservation of momentum . . . :)

Actually, no. A dirty bomb is NOT an Enhanced Radiation Bomb/Warhead because a dirty bomb is not "enhancing" anything. A dirty bomb is the cheap/terrorist alternative. An Enhanced Radiation Warhead (proper term) is exactly what I described above, and fits with the yield description for them...

You mean, "Neutron TDX" ?

As I recall, the idea behind a (modern) Enhanced Radiation Warhead is/was one of the following: A Standard modern warhead uses the following set-up (or some minor variant of it): A U235 Fission trigger to initiate: A D-T Fusion reaction, which in turn produced high energy neutrons (n0) as a...

And if you want to be really specific, the rules provided for both dirty (fission) and clean (confinement) triggered fusion.

As I mentioned upthread, it reminds me a little bit of the T5 T-Drive or "Thruster", otherwise known as a Dean Converter. Somehow converts angular momentum from a power plant when engaged to linear momentum / thrust thru a mechanical system. Makes my internal physicist cringe, but it fits the...

Is that from a specified Mongoose source? Would that mean an Imperially-designated E-Starport (Frontier Installation) is TL-12 minimum by virtue of the TL of the Beacon? Or that all Imperial D-Starports (Poor Quality) are also TL-12 minimum facilities? I would think a D-Port could be a lot...

Not necessarily. Under Traveller5, the suggestion is that meson technology is using the charged pions and their decay products, the muons (at least for the weapons, so presumably for the communicators (either Meson or CommPlus) as well). In the real world, muons have negative charge and have...

The pi0 meson decays into two gamma photons. The pi+ meson decays into a muon neutrino and an antimuon, which itself subsequently decays into a position and an electron neutrino. The pi- meson decays into a muon antineutrino and a muon, which itself subsequently decays into an electron and an...

We have already done Neutrino Communications today at TL 7/8. It was between two facility-sized particle research laboratories, one spelling out the word "Neutrino" encoded by sending it in pulses by letter of A=1,B=2, etc. to the other acting as receiver. But it has been done. Bump that to...