Recent content by WHULorigan

We must think alike - I was just thinking the same thing the other day about this topic. Solomani who don't live on or near the Spinward border have this - image - from fanciful descriptions and tall tales (no pun intended); and then they get to actually travel and see one and they are -...

The best depictions of Aslan in my opinion are the originals as a baseline: CT / William H. Keith artwork DGP Artwork Secondarily, the GT artwork, which is derived from the above two In the above cases, the Artwork is lion-like (i.e. vaguely similar to Lions, enough to make the connection)...

Sounds like Classic Traveller . . .

I am thinking realistically in-game, not out of game in terms of players & referees. A fully sentient/conscious robot brain is a bona fide entity. Such a brain is a regular NPC. If it is hard-wired into the ship augmenting the computer system, it has every right to consider that ship as its...

But that is exactly why I wouldn't want my ship fitted with one. What do you do when your ship one day says to you: "I quit." And leaves port without you? As noted above, the ship then becomes the robot's "body". A better idea would be to have a robot brain with its own dedicated body...

I'd hate to think the K'kree use gas on the battlefield . . .

Seems to me that individual worlds would keep "local" calendars and timekeeping systems as best fits the local world (or something independent that works for bizarre situations), but that the "Interstellar Community" (i.e. Imperial Standard, ship crews, etc) would utilize something like the...

A Lunar Month is 29.5 days, but it's sideral period is 27.3 days - they may have gotten it from there. The human circadian rhythm is still based around 24 hours (actually a little less - and the Vilani are 32hour), so that is a value not likely to change for local time, even if it gets out of...

The Hobbit month names were actually based on the Anglo-Saxon calendar names, modified to how they might have come down to modern English had they remained in common usage.

They probably know me then (at least by sight if naught else). I'd be the one who is usually wearing the Scots-bonnet (despite being of mostly German ancestry ;) ) .

Are you relatively local, on the continent, or coming across the pond?

I will be there, as always. I was born and raised in Lancaster (Pennsylvania :) ).

So just like an operational Fusion Power Plant, which is TL8 . . .

It is a thing in T5 as well.

Yes. The MT Interplanetary G-Drive had a 10D limit, and was TL10. The M-Drive "Thruster Plate" was TL11 and not limited by gravity wells.