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You can also split astronavigation into two separate skill sets: Jump and InSystem - they have clear differences. You can easily suggest the latter is part of Pilot, and the former is part of Astronavigator, and that both Pilot and Astronav include SensOps skill (and perhaps Gunner does as...

And that is something that I miss with the rulesets going forward. It is one thing to have the game-design philosophy of "people doing things" rather than "my simple well-worded task-request to the AI interface to automate the search/task/hand-off to the "bot" to get the job done while I go...

Also, keep in mind that under CT, "0-Level Skills" were awarded at the referee's discretion, and were considered "basic familiarization, but with no real experience thru use". So you could in theory take the familiarization course or refresher course (with referee permission), or the referee...

It probably depends upon your interpretation of Grav Vehicle vs. Spaceboat. Obviously in a "Reaction Drive" setting a Spaceboat may require additional significant skills for handling specializations above and beyond a simple G-module Lifter on a Grav Vehicle. As you noted, would a spaceboat be...

So simply put: * High Passage = High Class (Upper Class) Passage * Middle Passage = (Upper) Middle Class Passage * Low Passage = Lower (& LMC?) Class Passage

But in modern travel a Sea Voyage vs. an Air Voyage is an option. In the analogy the interstellar voyage is analogous to the Sea Voyage and is the ONLY OPTION, and is not simply for a long-duration pleasure cruise but the only way of getting from A to B; there is no "fast interstellar airline"...

I wonder if that quote was originally intended to be an Imperium-wide reference, or more characteristic of the Imperial Core in particular, as distinguished from the "Frontier", "Marches", and or other backwaters and borders?

Under T5, it would be a Transport (Unscheduled Cargo/Freight). The Safari Ship and Expeditionary Vessel are mutual variants of the Chartered Expedition, and the Yacht is an example of the Private Charter.

I actually drop BCS to 2,500. I just rounded it for the post.

I also happen to like the conceit: NAVAL TERMINOLOGY: ACS = Auxiliary Class (Up to 2,500 tons) - Minor & Escort Combatants/Tertiaries BCS = Battle Class (~3,000 to 100,000 tons) - Subcapital Ships/Secondaries CCS = Capital Class (100,000 - 250,000 tons: A subcategory of Fleet Class) -...

The 2,400 ton cutoff derives from T5, which is also where the term "Adventure Class Ship" (ACS) and "Battle Class Ship" (BCS) (i.e. 2,500 ton +) come from. It is because the T5.10 Shipbuilding rules produce ships suitable for adventure-level play, and the QSP Code ("Quick Ship Profile") used to...

To whom (or to what comment) in particular are you responding?

You could also envision the internal pseudo-gravity field as being engineered via an encasing "network" in the bulkhead, or as grav-plates surrounding the compartment on all sides, the idea being that the pseudo-gravity field drops off fairly quickly with distance (-canon-) and that the way the...

I would guess that they do (both Rimward and Spinward). But the Aslan Hierate is not so much an Empire or Polity as it is a "Region" where Clan and "Pride" relationships tie groups together. Those who happen to find themselves born or otherwise "entrenched" on the Coretrailing edge of Hierate...

I have never owned an EV, so I have no personal experience. But I have always heard that the battery eventually needs (expensive) replacement. Maybe the mileage is better now than I had heard previously.