And what would happen to them if a source that they could detect at 1 parsec were to emit at 100 diameters? Overload? Again what happens to the PLANET and other ships with those gravity waves and other radiations? Seems like they would be magnified by a lot of orders of magnitude.
Which would mean the effects are small and therefore should NOT be detectable at parsec (let alone multi parsec) distances. System wide sure. But not light years away.
It's a thing that pops up in the DNR campaign, so you can infer the existence of interstellar civilizations by noticing clusters of jump activity. It seems to have since gotten into more general use, but this seems to me to be a bad idea.
That was going to be my first response, too, but then I remembered that being within a hundred earth diameters of the sun wasn’t such a great plan, either.Or maybe it is like the Sun which is visible many many parsecs away but does not in fact destroy the Earth that is not so very far away.
and his answers are just from ChatGPT.Or the background being obscured by the magic flloofle dust that falls out at emergence. Often we detect astronomic objects by what disappears rather than what appears.
I think tip-top-secret bases in interstellar space would probably anyways have at least low power thrusters to move themselves around a bit, and use signal buoys to bring in friendly ships - it complicates finding them a lot. Already a hard job, made virtually impossible.
Stealth Jump fixes this. That way you only catch the dumb ones.
Needs TL 11 for J-1 and TL 13 for J-2. So the "TL9 Threshing Oar raider" cited above couldn't use it. The Oghman Raiders would have to be TL 11 or 13 minimum but seem to be TL 9.
So you can detect an unstealthed jump a parsec away (at least) but not a stealthed one inside your solar system? They drop the emissions of a jump how many orders of magnitude as part of stealthing? Doesn't seem reasonable to me.
Agreed, it does add a TL penalty, so that only higher techs can use it, but since the Average TL in the Imperium is 12, that shouldn't be too hard. Agreed, some setting stuff would have to get rewritten.
No idea if it is reasonable or not. Advanced Stealth can give you a -6 to being detected by an Electronics(sensors) roll. Likely this would mean you can't be autodetected either. Combine Stealth Jump and Advanced Stealth and it gets nasty quick. The Difficulty for autodetect seems to be 8. That is too high for my liking. I would prefer autodetect happened at a Difficulty of 2, then add 6 for every range increment, 8 for 2 parsecs, 14 for 3 parsecs, etc. The Difficulty number should also use the size modifier for larger ships but multiply the ship's tonnage by the jump number to get the effective tonnage for the modifier.
Stealth Jump and Stealth of the ship are two different things. The ship stealth is like radar stealth whereas the jump bubble collapse is outside the ship and the two IMO do NOT stack in any circumstance.
Yep. This.
Remember that the jump flash travels at the speed of light (at best) so you can jump into a neighbouring parsec and hang around for about three years without risk of detection, if that’s what you mean?
I guess the problem is that Stealth Jump does nothing against the sensor from the DSE, Stealth Jump defines what it does by using the terms from the sensor page of the CRB. The Gravitational Analysis Suite does not use those term and would sadly be uneffected by Stealth Jump.
