Rikki Tikki Traveller said:
Got it! FYI - It shows up as a separate download.
One question (well several related questions) that the starmap brings up that I don't feel are explained very well in the book.
Ships are given Jump Drive ratings, but you don't spend any time explaining how that translates to your Tachyon Drive really works IN GAME.
It seems like you are using the Teleport Drive option from the TMB, but that book specifically states that multiple jumps are dangerous. Your text indicates otherwise. Also, you mention the ability to make long-range jumps. A small section explaining how this all fits together (in-game and meta-game) would be very helpful as I am very confused about how long it would take a Fast Freighter for example, to get from Earth to Teron.
Other than this one little thing, I really like the setting.
I intend to read it more thoroughly this weekend and post a review early next week.
This is one of those complicated issues that was kind of left intentionally vague for a reason.
In the original version of Reign of Discordia, ships moved (at faster than light speeds) "at the speed of plot." In other words, there was never any hard and fast rules for how long a space voyage would last and I wanted it that way because realistically, nothing usually happens at faster than light speeds unless it's part of the plot. It's all meta.
As I ran the setting more, I decided that it was a good idea to set an upper speed limit on ships. I did realize that without a universal FTL speed limit, galaxy hopping became a distinct possibility, and that isn't something that I wanted in RoD, so I ended up setting the maximum speed at forty light years per hour. Essentially, I wanted it so that you could jump from one side of known space to the other in about a day, while still leaving the majority of the galaxy undiscovered.
Now, my philosophy in converting the setting over to Traveller was to leave the Traveller rules and open content material alone as much as possible, making only the changes needed so that the new version of the setting didn't disagree with the original one. I think the strategy worked quite well, and the end result of this is that there is now some new equipment that you can use in your Traveller games and the Traveller material is simply assumed to already be an integral part of the universe except where noted.
So getting to the specific questions posed:
The standard long range jump using the tachyon drive is analogous to the teleport drive, with the obvious limitation that the ship is actually not moving any fast than 40 light years per hour.
"Micro jumping" is a slower form of FTL that still uses the tachyon drive as well as teleportation like jumps, but it is going slow enough through space that you can get readings out ahead of you as you go. This essentially works like warp drive, which is where you would use the ship's warp rating.
The danger that the text mentions of doing multiple jumps refers to long-range jumps as opposed to micro jumps. Micro jumping is usually used for the exploration of space and searching for salvage.
Hope that sheds some light on things.
