Starship Encounters: are there any more detailed 2e rules beyond the Core Book?

[swordtart]

Nope. How do you use fusion energy without changing disorder or randomness in a system? It isn't simply waste heat.

Fusion is adding atoms together. Does it not reduce local entropy as there are less free atoms jiggling around? But the normal rule is that entropy always increases. That is overall entropy of the closed system though not necessarily a specific sub element of the system. The fusion reaction releases energy but if it isn't waste heat then surely it isn't entropy?

I always hated entropy. Too bloody slippery by half.

 

[Sigtrygg]

You have to consider the entropy effect of all the products of the fusion reaction and what they do, the particles and energy released during the fusion reaction increase entropy or the fusion process would not occur in the first place.

It looks like an entropy decrease if you only consider the arrangement of the fusing particles, but you need to take into account the effects of the products, especially the energy, on the number of micro-states that are now available, ie entropy (at least one version of it anyway).