Crew going faster than 1g

[briansommers]

There doesn’t seem to be any rules for the crew when traveling faster than 1g with maneuver drives.
I would think they would have to strap in to special high g seats to avoid damage.

Did i miss it somewhere?

 

[AnotherDilbert]

Mongoose does not go into details, but other editions of Traveller have.

Most ship maintain a steady ~1 G gravity field inside. Any perceived acceleration caused by the ship accelerating is counteracted by a gravity field in the opposite direction, it's called an inertial compensator.

Momentum. Inertia. The effects of inertia remain. Acceleration produces felt effects. Most hulls have inertial compensators which counteract the effect.

 

[briansommers]

Ahh good to know, thanks.

 

[Condottiere]

Usually not something to take note of, until the spaceship can't power basic systems, or the naval architect decided not to bother adding in gravitational plates.

 

[Ursus Maior]

Also note that High Guard offers rules for ships that do not have such a system. These ships are noted as being limited in size, but there are no rules for what that does to the crew. Small fighters and combat boats might make use of high-g suits for pilots/crew. However, larger ships should limit themselves to low-g maneuvering, otherwise cargo, passengers and crew might get seriously damaged or injured.

 

[OrdosMalleus]

Anything higher than -say- 8-9Gs for more than a few seconds is very dangerous, IRL. In The Expanse, they have no artificial gravity plates,etc. so the crews have to strap into crash couches and get injected with "The Juice" to thin blood and try to prevent strokes.

Soft sci-fi like Star Trek, Traveller, and Star Wars hand-wave this with things like "Inertial Dampers" and "Gravity Plates." So high or low G is irrelevant.

 

[Condottiere]

1. You're safe, as long as you don't do something to get yourself cancelled, or apparently, be a serial offender.

2. Jet jockeys are trained to withstand high gee manoeuvres, and are equipped to do so; also, I understand, having a lower centre of gravity helps.

3. Long term, it appears that as long as the range doesn't stray beyond seventy to one hundred forty percent Terran standard gravity, long term acceleration should be okay.

4. Optionally, hamster cages and double hulls.

 

[cunningrat]

4. Optionally, hamster cages and double hulls.

Hamster cages and double hulls generate the equivalent of 1G via rotation: they won't help with extra G-forces imparted by acceleration. They're artificial gravity, not an inertial compensator.
Think about a fighter pilot. He is subject to earth's gravity at 1G, but he's still subject to acceleration G-forces if he opens the throttle.

 

[Condottiere]

I always thought it in terms of geometry.