Recent content by WingedCat

The Traveller rules support more than just Charted Space, and this is an example of that. Alpha Complex is not in the OTU setting. Every extended backstory of Alpha Complex that I've seen, places it on a future Earth that did not evolve the way Terra did in Charted Space. Having read through...

Why bother? Smelters do the job in bulk already.

There's been interest expressed, here and there, in something to address mining and manufacturing in depth - which should also address previous lore such as Universal Manufacturing Templates, and input on manufacturing practices from the ancient Vilani Bureaux and ancient Terra's International...

My favorite quote on this (which might be quoted by Travellers with a background in belter life support and some way of having heard or read ancient Terran media): "Water: 35 liters. Carbon: 20 kilograms. Ammonia: 4 liters. Lime: 1.5 kilograms. Phosphorus: 800 grams. Salt: 250 grams...

I just found this thread, and most of it is what I meant to imply, so I don't have much to add except: There is quite a bit of recycling, along the lines you point out. But no system is 100% perfect, and they do have the capability to manufacture food for export. It would be fair to say...

Yes. Manufacturing can add value to (or remove value from) materials by putting it in certain shapes and states. A typical car fresh out of the factory, for instance, is worth more than the sum of the raw materials involved - but it masses as much as said raw materials (not including any...

Typically? None, other than customers temporarily present on business (and usually restricted to the core). The ship is designed for K'kree physiology; other races, with their own (much smaller) support needs (and typically present in much smaller numbers if at all), are better supported by...

You are welcome. I recall there was a depiction of a lone female K'kree bartender somewhere in the region; I want to say it was in one of the Pirates of Drinax books. Explaining how this could have come to be, despite being on the far side of the Third Imperium from K'kree home space, was part...

Thank you. (And sorry for taking this long to see your question. I wasn't alerted originally.) Yes, they are pulling the raw materials - for agriculture, and other things they produce - from the asteroids. Yes, the exact quantities (other than for fuel refining) are not addressed by the...

You are correct, and battleships might not have windows at all. Most Travellers will never personally see a battleship, let alone crew one. Nonmilitary Adventure Class Ships, particularly ones that might possibly land away from prepared spaceports (not recommended, but it does happen), despite...

A bit late myself (I thought this thread had ended), but thank you for the compliments. To your question: there were indeed supposed to be Mission Support drawings for the Suleiman and Animal too, as you can see on the key. I don't know what happened to them. Likewise, the Suleiman doesn't...

Those video game screenshots give me vibes of the modern remake of Carrier Command, where most of the action is via the players directing remote action from the bridge. I wonder if the intended gameplay is similar. (If so, I would lose the "walking simulator" parts and have people just click...

The trope of immortals becoming immoral because they are distanced from mortality is long enough, with enough examples, that I saw no reason to elaborate on that aspect in this article. YTU is YTU. Your immortals can become immoral over time, or with longer life find more reason to be moral...

I am the named individual. I read both Agent and T5 prior to writing that article (which was originally to be part of SOM, but Mongoose preferred to put it in JTAS, which decision I have no qualms with). In T5. yes. In Mongoose, no. This content was written for Mongoose. This was not the...

Any time you are presented with a non-trivial working system and believe the description you have been given is a physical impossibility, you can usually assume that you have misunderstood part of the explanation. Just bluntly and repeatedly declaring that it is impossible never helps...