Hop and Skip Drives

I think assumptions can be made in Traveller, which at times can neither be confirmed or denied.

Personally, I don't care either way.
 
phavoc said:
Wouldn't be more effecient to simply close the fuel tank valve on the half of the jump fuel tank you are planning on not using? Then with no fuel flow it couldn't be drained?

That's not directed at you Sigtrygg, it's directed at the person who thought it up without thinking too clearly about what it really means, and how easily it is to sidestep with basic engineering. If you can control a valve, you have a jump governor.
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This is what the jump governor is, it a VERY expensive connection valve separating fractions of your JDrive tank. :)
 
I've read good arguments that a '77 LBB:2 ship requires a power plant despite the official fudge. My personal interpretation is that the fudge is perfectly OK.
 
WHULorigan said:
Yes (I am basing this on T5). But you could try to plot a 10pc hop that intersects a closer target so that you precipitate out of hop at the 1000-diameter limit of the closer object as an "obstruction" to your hopline plot. In T5 each "Hop #" is a 10pc increment. Hop-1 is 10pc; Hop-2 is 20pc; etc. Without a governor, you can only do the specified Hop-# exactly. But I do not believe that any Hop drive of any rating can do less than 10pc (even a Hop-1 drive), even if it has a governor, except by the 1000-diameter-intersect/precipitate method. Just under 10pc (i.e. "Hop-0/1") is a hard lower limit for Hop, except via obstruction interference.

Presumably there is a hard lower limit for Jump as well (just under "Jump-0/1") but the distance is effectively intra-system and of such a small distance so as to be irrelevant.
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Agree. Why would you need a governor, when you can just make sure your actual target world 'gets in the way' of your jump?
No tech required, there are natural 'governors' everywhere, called gravity wells.
 
Ol'Weedy said:
Would be a lot easier if the other universe just had everyone grow a beard instead.
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Other universes don't go a certain way because they are easy. They are what they are. Of course, you may have to consider special effects budgets when portraying other universes, but all in all, printing Holly Hop Drive on a cardboard box, and dressing some female actors up like the series stars comes in at the low end, even for a 90s sit-com.
 
Ol'Weedy said:
Agree. Why would you need a governor, when you can just make sure your actual target world 'gets in the way' of your jump?
No tech required, there are natural 'governors' everywhere, called gravity wells.
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Well, at least in T5 the Astrogation rolls get very difficult with increased plot-distance, so you would want to make sure that you have a very good Astrogator or Computer automating the task, because if you fail the roll (and cause your hopline/skipline to fail to intersect your actual target world) and you mis-hop (or mis-skip) . . .
 
Because in-system jumps are possible, you can plot a course for anything up to your rating. Because Mongoose construction rules do not include a separate governor, that capability is built in for all Mongoose version starships, whether in software, hardware or both.
Problem solved.
 
Arkathan said:
Because in-system jumps are possible, you can plot a course for anything up to your rating. Because Mongoose construction rules do not include a separate governor, that capability is built in for all Mongoose version starships, whether in software, hardware or both.
Problem solved.
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Yes. But a difference between T5 and MgT2 is that MgT2 Hop Drives are fully functional as Jump Drives as well. In other words, a MgT2 Hop-3 Drive will do anything from Jump-1 to Jump-30 (no governor needed).

A T5 Hop-3 Drive (without a governor) can only do Jump-[21-30], and with a governor will do Jump-[10-30]. It still cannot do Jump-9 or less, except by Hop-line interference and precipitation.

If I were using the latter T5 rule I would probably introduce a House-rule that says you can build an Optimized Hop/Jump Drive system that displaces the size of both systems added together, the total multiplied by x0.75 (or something similar). Same for an Optimized Skip/Hop/Jump Drive, etc.
 
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I don't think temperature is an issue.
 
Condottiere said:
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I don't think temperature is an issue.
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Ah yes....forgot that the women could forgo the beards, as long as they wear skimpier outfits than their good universe doubles.
Hmm...judging by what I saw last time I was in a mall, I may have skipped universes without realizing...
 
Ol'Weedy said:
Ah yes....forgot that the women could forgo the beards, as long as they wear skimpier outfits than their good universe doubles.
Hmm...judging by what I saw last time I was in a mall, I may have skipped universes without realizing...
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How unfortunate for you that there aren't any transporters to get you back . . . 😉
 
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