Show Us Your (Vehicle Handbook Update 2026) Vehicles!

[Arkathan]

I get that. Just venting really. I’m not done with Traveller… but I am done with posting when I’m on my second bottle of wine

I just like consistency and to be fair Geir’s vehicle system is excellent and the mere fact that you can design a structure that can be a container and it actually works is great.

I’m going to have a look at a (IMTU) Vehicle supplement for things like moveable structures - maybe just x10 price - collapsible structures, and may some design suggestions for stuff like flat bed grav trucks, 18 wheelers, optional cargo weight guidelines.

Movable structures: make a structure with only a secondary propulsion. Like lifters or legs.

 

[Libris]

Movable structures: make a structure with only a secondary propulsion. Like lifters or legs.

It’s not difficult to design them using the existing rules it’s just that they don’t mirror real world examples. Small basic box trailers, for example, are significantly costlier than a hut, secondary propulsion takes up a chunk of space and implies they are powered - the running gear for a semi-truck trailer while not unsubstantial is much smaller than that of the powered tractor unit.

 

[Arkathan]

Great ideal but it will not work. Nuclear Dampers do not clean up radiation they inhibits nuclear reaction, the best a nuclear damper can do is temporarily lower the ambient radiation while it’s operating. Field Catalog pg 170 “ One can also be used to make an irradiated area somewhat safer, but contact with contaminated material will still pose a severe hazard. “. A nuclear damper doesn’t remove the contamination it only represses the radiation while it’s active. In the Drinax case it could be used to make it safer for a cleaning crew but they would still have to remove the top 10 feet or so of soil and any contaminated water including ground water.

The radiation from an explosion crater is due to nuclear decay, not reactions. The explosion is where the reactions come in.
Dampers either stabilise an isotope or cause it to decay very rapidly to a stable isotope. Lead for uranium and plutonium. So the nuclear damper permanently renders substances in its area incapable of reacting or decaying.
Most of the hazardous airborne radiation following an explosion that people are concerned about is iodine That one is troubling because it concentrated in your thyroid. This is why "radiation" pills are concentrated stable iodine. It saturates your thyroid so the radioactive stuff cannot get in. They do not actually protect you from radiation fields.

 

[Arkathan]

It’s not difficult to design them using the existing rules it’s just that they don’t mirror real world examples. Small basic box trailers, for example, are significantly costlier than a hut, secondary propulsion takes up a chunk of space and implies they are powered - the running gear for a semi-truck trailer while not unsubstantial is much smaller than that of the powered tractor unit.

Unpowered light structure, wheeled, with internal volume comparable to a standard Semi. Price falls within the range of current new units, without features, and that is without using field W3 that allows for mass production discounts.

 

[tytalan]

"E. Radiation Suppression: Another use of nuclear dampers is to eliminate the radioactive contamination created by a nuclear weapon detonation. Instead of performing its usual missions, a damper may be assigned to eliminate the radiation from one nuclear strike per fire phase. Both the crater and the area of induced radiation are rendered permanently harmless."

You didn’t include the book and pg so include it or it’s not real

Because the FC say this on pg 170 “ One can also be used to make an irradiated area somewhat safer, but contact with contaminated material will still pose a severe hazard.” And SF says this on pg 47 “ Nuclear dampers interfere with the reactions between particles in a warhead, slowing down the reaction to the point where it will not cause an explosion and controlling the decay of nuclear materials inside. As a result a warhead that is successfully damped will not detonate but the conventional components of the warhead will still operate. The result is an activated nuclear pile of supercritical mass that must be disposed of in some manner. Left alone, the device will gradually get hotter until it destroys its casing. Active dampers will slow the nuclear decay process to the point where the casing is not breached but removing the damping field before the reaction has run its course allows the runaway reaction to begin again.” Both disagree with you quote so what book and pg

 

[Arkathan]

You didn’t include the book and pg so include it or it’s not real

Striker Book 2 pg 12

 

[Endie]

I started to type out a response correcting tytalan this morning then I remembered my rule about how arguing with him is futile and chose to laugh, instead. It made my day much better.