Recent content by wmarshal

Is there a list of changes between this and the original box set?

As the current method for Mongoose 2300 is to use the Traveller crb with some subtractions, if there was a 2300 crb would it just be a slimmed down version of the Traveller crb with some different art? Are there any additions to such a crb you would expect?

I think “no-one” is a fair enough approximation. I’d be surprised if more than 1% of the TTRPG community is aware of MA.

There was the USS Alamo. This is sometimes done. True, it was a Texan loss, not an American one, but when Texas joined the union, America then inherited Texas’ stats in a way. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Alamo

Yes. I don’t think the AI would equip all such beds in the crew staterooms this way, and in any staterooms shared between PCs and androids those beds would also be unlikely to have a recharge plate. The AI would take such steps to minimize to possibility of its ruse being detected before it’s...

I imagine the gunners could pose to the passengers as “assistant” stewards/engineers, since a rationale of the pop up turrets is to disguise the fact that the ship is armed. That disguise fails if the gunners are publicly identified as such. I did a decent skim of the document, but not a...

The document mentions the possibility of the captain taking a short side trip or two, which informed my thinking, but I could see the captain/baron taking that high state room as well. That does leave another regular crew stateroom on the Velos. I kind of feel like the design should have all of...

I’d guess the captain takes a stateroom for himself on the Velos, and the other 2 are set aside for android occupancy only, at least until it’s revealed to the PCs that the Ventura is actually two ships. Possible breakdown before the revelation: Ventura: Stateroom 1: Stewards 1-3 (hopefully a...

The ship has a crew listing of 15 positions to be split by 7 staterooms. I’m guessing that some state rooms will be sleeping 3 to a room. Three of those state rooms will be unavailable at certain times. I take it care must be taken to assign the PCs to the remaining 4 staterooms at the start.

I’m looking at the ship description starting in detail on page 28. I think the shading indicating Velos-only features have been misapplied.

It could be a key mission for Zhodani allied travellers to disable/destroy such a testbed ship.

Agreed. I was informed that per CT canon that a Hop drive wasn’t developed until IY 1900. Seems like a long time, but without being super familiar with CT canon that could be explained by all the other chaos that soon engulfs the Third Imperium in CT. However, my understanding is that MgT...

I don’t think the lack of a governor is a major factor; the very last jump to Capital could be handled by any capable Imperial Navy ship, so long as that last jump by the Hop courier was within 3-4 parsecs of Capital. There would be plenty of candidates in all directions of Capital.

Ok, I didn’t k ow that there was a canonical date for Hop technology. However, credible intelligence could lead to the same motivations, even if the intelligence was faulty. As far as experimenting with FTL technology 2 levels higher than a base level I thought that since experimental...

This could be a reason why the Zhodani initiated the Fifth Frontier War. I don’t know that current Mongoose canon incorporates any prototype Hop drives into the Imperium’s fleet, but it could have been intelligence that the Imperium was about to start building such ships that pushed the Zhodani...