Near Future Traveller

[Sigtrygg]

This is a thread about NEAR FUTURE Traveller TL 5-8 has been discussed as it is about pre Jump and pre M-Drive. So primitive stuff IS the topic. Are you sure you are in the right thread?

Since I started it yes, I am in the right thread.

This is a thread about using the rules in HG(2022) to see what a TL7 to TL8 (and now to early TL9) with no gravitics and no fusion power plants may look like.

 

[rinku]

Stick to the thread, no primitive stuff, just what is in High Guard 2022.

Since you need gravitics to have a planetoid hull then there is a TL9 minimum... until the rules are changed anyway

I'd waive that for a planetoid station. The gravitic requirement makes sense if it's zooming around under high thrust, but parking a big rock in orbit and turning it into something passes the pub test.

 

[Condottiere]

 

[Sigtrygg]

I'd waive that for a planetoid station. The gravitic requirement makes sense if it's zooming around under high thrust, but parking a big rock in orbit and turning it into something passes the pub test.

I would go one step further and ignore the ban on non-gravitic hull for planetoids. I hope that in the update it goes away.

But until then it has to be a invocation of rule zero...

 

[Condottiere]

It exists.

The questions I'd have, is why acceleration capped to factor/three, and why gravitated drives are banned?

My theory is the primitive power grid.

 

[Fluffy Bunny Feet]

I would go one step further and ignore the ban on non-gravitic hull for planetoids. I hope that in the update it goes away.

Especially since primitive planetoid hulls are non gravitic.

You can't mount M-Drive or J-Drive on a primitive hull but can you carry them in a docking clamp while the other ship is using an M-Drive or J-Drive?

 

[Sigtrygg]

Good question.
One of the requirements of a jump drive hull is a network of cables to maintain the jump field.
Back in CT77 days if you built a non-starship hull then it was half price.

Then they introduced jump shuttles for SDBs in S:7 and the discount for a starship hull went away in LBB:81.

Fast forward to Mongoose, I would say a primitive hull lacks the jump cable network, so would need a jump shuttle with an extendable cable mesh.