Recent content by Yenaldlooshi

MasterGwydion's point is exactly that our human understanding (and therefore your understanding) of physics can be subject to change. You know what you know now, but in a thousand years we might know something different, just as peer reviewed then as a thing is now. Should you bet your life...

Agreed, but if your piracy target can still send a one way SOS where it gives full details of you the attacker in the message, even though there is no way they could respond in time physically, your wanted poster is prolly going to go up and a bounty on your head. It's not much but it ain't...

Rules lite and rules half-assed are two different things. Hinting at a rule, half describing a rule and then leaving out the obvious detail one obviously would want to know if they used the rule that was already written, is rules half-assed. It's lazy writing/editing. Don't say in a book...

Location info: At TL higher than us, I think that ought to be super simple, especially when you look at all the other advanced stuff done at spacefaring TL. Also, wouldn't the previously mentioned problem of the beam being so big on the reception end now become an advantage to help the...

I agree with this but with this caveat; the sandcasting ship needs to be adjacent and the target ship needs to be unable to maneuver. That said, there are multiple ways to block or jam or disrupt a laser being used for communications that do not involve putting substances in the way...

Of course, which indicates a possibility for interception. btw, what TL was that laser? Probably not high enough to be relevant in the year 1105 of the Third Imperium. I am posting about TL10+ laser comms with a typical 12-13.

and why is that? We are talking TL's above us here on Terra in the 21st Century after all. I understand your point about can't be intercepted and "maybe" detected, and yet in core they talk about jamming lasers on page67. I am not sure if I agree with that one, though tbh.

LOS= Probably not an issue. Would only matter in the case of being on the darkside of an orbit either for the receiver or the sender. Any Starport with a Highport would probably have an number of CommSats they could relay laser comms traffic off of. Same at sensitive and strategically...

"out beyond 50,000km"? I would hope so. That is nothing in space and the CSC still says interplanetary distances are possible for the L-Comms it lists. Looking at the costs and weight and TL of these comms in the CSC, including them as being normal on ships for ship to ship comms in the same...

Thank you! I think I understand it now. So, if I am on a world surface, that is the effective range. If I am in a ship in orbit, my range is effectively the whole entire system, but, I must have positional information with my other laser transceiver. So, I have two ships that often travel...

CSC64 talks about laser comms with interplanetary distances and reaching outer planets yet all the ones listed are 500Km. Where are these comms? Am I misreading something?

Honestly, I need to really deep dive into robots, test the design rules and get back to you on this one. I have the book but I have barely cracked it open. I have only used it to shop for engineers. lol.

Regarding Autofire and grappling. I cannot see how you cannot give autofire its due when having your weapon set to it and firing point blank into your target. I do think armor gets to reduce though with each damage roll. Here is my interpretation for now: Grapples and Autofire: Before a...

This is the Second Rule I have added: Weapons Used by Additional Manipulator Augments Including Grapples and Dual Weapon attacks: Weapons can be used by Additional Manipulators in attacks. However, normally an attacker can only attack with a limit of 2 limbs or additional manipulators due to...

Hey guys, thanks for all your responses. If I contradicted you, it didn't mean I didn't agree with you, it meant I wanted to test your logic. I thought about this in the context of if I would like to use some of this as a player and how I would handle it if I was the GM and I had a player...