Ship sensors questions

[Kromodor]

Hello mates,

I was building some ships and encounters with them and have stumbled upon a question.

In the core book page 108, there are listed different sensor package systems. However, when one look in Ship operations, you can see 2 of the Sensor types not included in the package:

Thermal sensors - detects bodies of heat
EM sensors - detect energy emissions

How do you play this? Do you include them by default, or you put them as upgrades to the sensor pack of the ship?

 

[rust]

The ship design chapter mentions only the active sensors like radar and
lidar, but it would be logical that the basic passive sensors like EM and
thermal (infrared) are also a part of each package.

I just wonder what exactly EM could mean, since all of the sensors ex-
cept NAS and densitometer are EM, just different wavelenghts, and I
have no idea which part of the EM spectrum the EM sensor is intended
to represent.

 

[Jeraa]

Page 143 of the core rulebook. EM sensors detect power flows and transmissions. So, fusion power plants.

 

[rust]

Page 143 of the core rulebook. EM sensors detect power flows and transmissions. So, fusion power plants.

Thank you.

I am glad I have ceased to play Traveller before a player could ask me
how this could be possible. :lol: