Radiation and Ship Armour

[SSWarlock]

The Core Book states on pg 142 that starship armour decreases radiation exposure by 500. Does this mean 500 total regardless of how much armour is installed, 500 per level of armour (i.e. for every 5% of ship used for armour), or 500 per point of armour?

 

[Infojunky]

That set of rules is still in the nice idea phase, not quite ready for play yet.

 

[SSWarlock]

Okey dokey. I'll go with 500 per armour level and see how that works.

 

[SSWarlock]

My testing has shown that the 500 rads absorbed per armour level ruling works rather well vs. both nuclear missiles and stellar flares. It just became a permanent house rule for my campaigns unless/until some better comes along.

 

[Infojunky]

My testing has shown that the 500 rads absorbed per armour level ruling works rather well vs. both nuclear missiles and stellar flares. It just became a permanent house rule for my campaigns unless/until some better comes along.

So, how do you skim fuel? The radiation flux around larger Gas Giants is much higher than that.

 

[qstor]

So, how do you skim fuel? The radiation flux around larger Gas Giants is much higher than that.

How rads per hour could a ship expect around a gas giant? I think that's a rule that should be explained on future editions of MGT.

I'm glad the regular radiation rule was added in MGT. Other versions of Traveller; IIRC assume that the radiation from solar flares is blocked by the ships armor.

Mike

 

[SSWarlock]

Re: gas giant radiation, I go with the ideas at the following website.

http://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/science/gasgiants.html

It provides enough detail to be interesting yet doesn't bog me down as a GM or player. No, it's not the ultimate in realism but then neither is Traveller. I go for "maximum game fun", not a simulation of reality.

 

[Infojunky]

So, how do you skim fuel? The radiation flux around larger Gas Giants is much higher than that.

How rads per hour could a ship expect around a gas giant?

The figure I can see is is in the 100,000 to 1,000,000 range. But that is a generalization.

Io gets an exposure of 3600 rem a day.

That and though the Protection factor of a substances is linear. It is generally list in the attenuation per not the gross reduction...

i.e. 1/500 per increment. not 500 subtracted per increment.

I think that's a rule that should be explained on future editions of MGT.

I would go for a correction and expansion.