PsiTraveller
Cosmic Mongoose
Odd semantic question regarding tech levels of ships. Tech level 12 allows for Jump 3 range on a ship. (pg 14 of Highguard). To do this you need enough fuel, and 7.5% of hull + 5 tons of Jump drives.
So a TL 12 Far Trader, with a Jump range of 2 (pg 116 of HIghguard) has 5% of Hull + 5 tons of Jump Drives, and 40 tons of fuel. If the skipper added 5 more tons of Jump drives and some fuel tanks in the cargo bay, upgraded the computer and software, would the ship be Jump 3 capable? Or are the Jump 2 ship designs using Jump Drives that are only Jump 2 capable (Tl 11 on the chart on pg 14).
The reason I am asking is to sort out the cost of increasing Jump capacity on a ship. If a ship is of lower TL, like the TL 9 Oghma Raider from MakerGod by Christopher Griffen (awesome module by the way). The Oghma tech level is TL 9, so their ships are Jump 1. If you got one, and wanted to upgrade the ship you would have to install higher Tech level Jump Drives (I think you would anyway). But a ship with a TL 12 as stated in the ship design sheet. Is the Jump limitation just the tonnage of drives and software?
So a TL 12 Far Trader, with a Jump range of 2 (pg 116 of HIghguard) has 5% of Hull + 5 tons of Jump Drives, and 40 tons of fuel. If the skipper added 5 more tons of Jump drives and some fuel tanks in the cargo bay, upgraded the computer and software, would the ship be Jump 3 capable? Or are the Jump 2 ship designs using Jump Drives that are only Jump 2 capable (Tl 11 on the chart on pg 14).
The reason I am asking is to sort out the cost of increasing Jump capacity on a ship. If a ship is of lower TL, like the TL 9 Oghma Raider from MakerGod by Christopher Griffen (awesome module by the way). The Oghma tech level is TL 9, so their ships are Jump 1. If you got one, and wanted to upgrade the ship you would have to install higher Tech level Jump Drives (I think you would anyway). But a ship with a TL 12 as stated in the ship design sheet. Is the Jump limitation just the tonnage of drives and software?