MgT 2e p. 36 Would Solar Panels be providing only the power for basic ship systems?

[alex_greene]

Handwave it. If they wanted to create full, detailed rules governing every aspect of Traveller, we'd have an endless source of textbooks covering the tech, from solar panels in the Far Future to a ten-volume "The Science Of Jump Drives," and you know how many people would buy them? None, even if they were being given away.

What matters is that the thing works, and you can generate an adventure based on the scenario of them not working. Lots of EVA, some Engineering checks, a bit of a crisis when someone says something about an impending solar storm or micrometeoroids.

Or some ginormous great pirate ship can just turn up and demand your cargo with menaces while you're outside rigging the panels or something.

 

[snrdg121408]

Morning PST alex_greene,

Handwave it. If they wanted to create full, detailed rules governing every aspect of Traveller, we'd have an endless source of textbooks covering the tech, from solar panels in the Far Future to a ten-volume "The Science Of Jump Drives," and you know how many people would buy them? None, even if they were being given away.

What matters is that the thing works, and you can generate an adventure based on the scenario of them not working. Lots of EVA, some Engineering checks, a bit of a crisis when someone says something about an impending solar storm or micrometeoroids.

Or some ginormous great pirate ship can just turn up and demand your cargo with menaces while you're outside rigging the panels or something.

Until some update or revision occurs I will use the rules for solar panels as written in MgT HG 2e.

 

[Reynard]

The Interdiction ODP I posted uses solar arrays for station keeping and uses the rules of reduced power for basic systems since it's an autonomous vessel. When station keeping, which is intermittent as described in the rules, other power sources are reduced during the operation. The ODP has batteries recharged over time and can power the weapons through a protracted fight then recharge when and if it survives.

I was a little confused by the description of how solar arrays work and the limitations so I hope I got it right.