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.