So here’s the problem book 2 of PoD lists Tech world and Drinax as both being TL F but the Traveller map list both as TL E. Now I can accept this because I consider the Traveller map to be largely a RP Tool minor variation is just error in the data. Now we know that this is wrong in Drinax case because it’s current TL is closer to 0 (TL being infrastructure and Drinax doesn’t have any) and before the bombing it was F because the Harrier is TL F. This is were borderland causes issues Tech World is listed in borderland as TL E that means the only place where the Harrier can get repaired is Theev which is 11 jumps away from Drinax. I feel this is another case where mongoose is failing to keep thing consistent.
Borderland and the Traveller Map breaks Pirates of Drinax
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If you need RP reason Tech levels vary for different technologies by one or two. One or the other could also be out of date in Traveller Map. Library data is notoriously fickle. Ultimately it only matters in your story as much as you need it to.
Here is the TL breakdown from Explanator for Tech World - https://peterssoftwareprojects.com/2018/05/19/explanator-nsf/
Here is the TL breakdown from Explanator for Tech World - https://peterssoftwareprojects.com/2018/05/19/explanator-nsf/
wintertraveller
Cosmic Mongoose
In Drinax Book 2 page 20, "The Aslan destroyed the original starport of Drinax, but the King’s personal starport qualifies almost as a Class A port. It lacks a shipyard, but can repair any ship that lands there"
In Drinax Book 1 page 7, "Drinax makes a great home base for a pirate, without providing an overwhelming advantage. The
Travellers can retreat there for repairs"
Except that Drinax is incapable of repairing the Harrier and has no infrastructure so all resources used to do repairs have to be shipped in. Just because you have the facilities doesn’t mean you have the resources and you need shipyard capacity to do a refit
Third party resource that not official plus if you read it both the computer tech and the transport tech is not even right. TL 16 gives jump 7 not the first availability of jump 6 for example. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on your opinion Borderland doesn’t do a complete WBH treatment to the worlds. But it does counter the computer TL 16 this author claims since all the robots in it are TL 14. While I definitely understand your point that if you do a full breakdown of the tech level using WBH you could give Tech world TL 15 or greater for transportation I don’t think claiming a third party resource is official is a legitimate argument.
It uses the Travellermap database and 40 years of game data from different versions, so is it canon? maybe, maybe not, I don't know the origin of all the data. It does give a reasonable explanation for Tech World and Drinax to be TL14 which is my point. It is YTU so you do what works for you. It is your story.
One of the reasons I put the link, was so that if you wanted to investigate you could see the history of the program and where the author got their data.
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