I am aware that the Starship Operator's Manual is coming soon and we are going to get a lot of info from it, but I would like to know your opinion on a couple of things.
Supply
1) Refueling on water/ice - do you need special equipment to get unrefined fuel from water or ice that you get from a planet surface or from a comet? The Fuel processor converts unrefined fuel to refined and Fuel scoops allow gathering from a gas giant, so those do not really fit.
2) If you have a modular cutter docked in a docking space, are you able to swap modules, or do you need a full hangar for this?
3) Construction deck - High Guard says that " A construction yard can build a ship of tonnage equal to half the tonnage of the construction deck at a TL equal to the ship the construction deck is on.". Would you say that one can use, given access to resources of course, a construction deck to produce missiles, torpedoes or sensor drones? That is, to resupply a ship during a long range patrol or exploration voyage? Or would you rather say such a construction would be in the Fabrication Chamber from CSC range?
Ship computer:
4) Would you allow the pilot/someone on the bridge to freely swap software loaded in the computer during action, or would you say it is a task that is conducted "in the downtime". For example the Kashu multirole fighter from SCC has a Computer/25 installed and has both Evade/3 and Fire Control/5 software listed. Computer/25 would allow for FC5/E0, FC3/E1, FC2/E2 or FC0/E3. Could the pilot change the setting in flight?
5) Speaking of software, would you allow for salvaging software from a ship? It is said that "Software packages of more than Bandwidth 1 cannot be copied easily", but can you for example remove a disk/hard drive from a ship computer and transfer it to another ship computer? And if yes, would you rule that software is interchangeable (or that the ship computers have an universal OS), or would it require some work with integrating software (a electronics(computers) task)?
6) High Guard has the Conscious Intelligence software, and it is stated that A Conscious Intelligence is treated as a computer-bound Traveller with INT 15 and EDU 15, with a range of skills that can be uploaded, changed and improved (typically in the skill level 3–5 range)." Would you treat the CI's skills as expert software and if yes, would you allow the players to upload personal computer-scale expert software into the CI?
Supply
1) Refueling on water/ice - do you need special equipment to get unrefined fuel from water or ice that you get from a planet surface or from a comet? The Fuel processor converts unrefined fuel to refined and Fuel scoops allow gathering from a gas giant, so those do not really fit.
2) If you have a modular cutter docked in a docking space, are you able to swap modules, or do you need a full hangar for this?
3) Construction deck - High Guard says that " A construction yard can build a ship of tonnage equal to half the tonnage of the construction deck at a TL equal to the ship the construction deck is on.". Would you say that one can use, given access to resources of course, a construction deck to produce missiles, torpedoes or sensor drones? That is, to resupply a ship during a long range patrol or exploration voyage? Or would you rather say such a construction would be in the Fabrication Chamber from CSC range?
Ship computer:
4) Would you allow the pilot/someone on the bridge to freely swap software loaded in the computer during action, or would you say it is a task that is conducted "in the downtime". For example the Kashu multirole fighter from SCC has a Computer/25 installed and has both Evade/3 and Fire Control/5 software listed. Computer/25 would allow for FC5/E0, FC3/E1, FC2/E2 or FC0/E3. Could the pilot change the setting in flight?
5) Speaking of software, would you allow for salvaging software from a ship? It is said that "Software packages of more than Bandwidth 1 cannot be copied easily", but can you for example remove a disk/hard drive from a ship computer and transfer it to another ship computer? And if yes, would you rule that software is interchangeable (or that the ship computers have an universal OS), or would it require some work with integrating software (a electronics(computers) task)?
6) High Guard has the Conscious Intelligence software, and it is stated that A Conscious Intelligence is treated as a computer-bound Traveller with INT 15 and EDU 15, with a range of skills that can be uploaded, changed and improved (typically in the skill level 3–5 range)." Would you treat the CI's skills as expert software and if yes, would you allow the players to upload personal computer-scale expert software into the CI?