I find all this rather eye-watering to comtemplate but sometimes a Traveller has to do what a Traveller has to do...
The dear old Central Supply Catalogue has this augment:
SMUGGLING CONTAINER
A portion of the Traveller’s body is surgically modified to house
a polymer pocket, covered by what appears like normal skin.
Using a trigger, usually looking like a blemish or scar to open,
the pocket can hold roughly 5 kg of mass, but nothing larger
than eight inches in diameter. Under normal circumstances, it
requires a Difficult (10+) Investigate check (1D rounds, INT)
to discover the container when closed.
Smuggling Container TL8 Cr15000
Firstly in the context of the human body 5 KG and 8 inches in diameter (I thought the Imperium was metric? and in any case 8 cm would be more realistic..) is bloody huge.
The one real world example I could find in a short but rather unpleasant google was a Colombian drug mule who inserted a pound of cocaine into two incisions in his thighs - so that is about 450g per thigh and the customs guys still eyeballed that he had weirdly lumpy thighs and caught him...
So we are presumably talking radically shortening someone's intestines or something equally gross and that at a sufficiently hi tech level this would somehow have no medical consequences.
So what can I reasonably get into this massive 5 kg and 8-inch diameter cavity?
I'm thinking a a body pistol, a stealth dagger, lots of plastic explosives, doses of combat enhancing drugs, commdots, a bug?
But at 5 kg you could presumably get an entire mini-armoury in there as long as it can be folded/dismantled and put back together - can you use TL12 3D printers to create a non-metallic Body ACR for instance? (That real world TL7 or whatever we are 3D printers can only make rather crap guns is not really an argument against this as we're talking 3,000 more years of developing this tech...)
The point being that to break someone out of prison as per Rescue on Ruie you need to get sent there - but as it is a rather backward TL6/7 prison they have no scanners other than metal detectors so you probably can get away with this as they are not going to be familiar with the concept of someone being mad enough to have a bloody great artificial cavity excavated out of their body just for smuggling.
The dear old Central Supply Catalogue has this augment:
SMUGGLING CONTAINER
A portion of the Traveller’s body is surgically modified to house
a polymer pocket, covered by what appears like normal skin.
Using a trigger, usually looking like a blemish or scar to open,
the pocket can hold roughly 5 kg of mass, but nothing larger
than eight inches in diameter. Under normal circumstances, it
requires a Difficult (10+) Investigate check (1D rounds, INT)
to discover the container when closed.
Smuggling Container TL8 Cr15000
Firstly in the context of the human body 5 KG and 8 inches in diameter (I thought the Imperium was metric? and in any case 8 cm would be more realistic..) is bloody huge.
The one real world example I could find in a short but rather unpleasant google was a Colombian drug mule who inserted a pound of cocaine into two incisions in his thighs - so that is about 450g per thigh and the customs guys still eyeballed that he had weirdly lumpy thighs and caught him...
So we are presumably talking radically shortening someone's intestines or something equally gross and that at a sufficiently hi tech level this would somehow have no medical consequences.
So what can I reasonably get into this massive 5 kg and 8-inch diameter cavity?
I'm thinking a a body pistol, a stealth dagger, lots of plastic explosives, doses of combat enhancing drugs, commdots, a bug?
But at 5 kg you could presumably get an entire mini-armoury in there as long as it can be folded/dismantled and put back together - can you use TL12 3D printers to create a non-metallic Body ACR for instance? (That real world TL7 or whatever we are 3D printers can only make rather crap guns is not really an argument against this as we're talking 3,000 more years of developing this tech...)
The point being that to break someone out of prison as per Rescue on Ruie you need to get sent there - but as it is a rather backward TL6/7 prison they have no scanners other than metal detectors so you probably can get away with this as they are not going to be familiar with the concept of someone being mad enough to have a bloody great artificial cavity excavated out of their body just for smuggling.
