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alex_greene
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Personally, I drink mine black. Neither milk nor sugar. High Crime against the Imperium. Shocking.
Norwich produces good results...
Anstett
Cosmic Mongoose
I almost never add anything. Sometimes a slight touch of honey (a girl I dated from Finland taught me that) but mostly just simple easy leaves and hot water.
Jump 4 would fix the problem.....
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
Lurking Grue
Banded Mongoose
Do we know who's writing The Starship Operator's Manual? Also, has it been disclosed if it is going to be rewriting (inventing anew) everything the previous Starship Operator's Manual (by DGP) did? Most probably so, but maybe they took some notes, or at least drew inspiration, from it.
CordwainerFish
Emperor Mongoose
It's been stated that the Old Hand won't be in it, which makes me sad. I hope he shows up somewhere else.
GabrielGABFonseca
Cosmic Mongoose
Lead author Adrian Tymes, and co-authors Sabrina Tymes, Robert Eaglestone, and Gabriel Gonçalves de Araujo Barbosa da Fonseca (Hi!).
The book covers a lot more than the original SOM did, and to a much greater depth. We have done our best to be faithful to the old SOM, but a lot was also updated both to comply to Mongoose 2nd and Traveller 5, as well as the last nearly half a century of space travel advancements.
Lurking Grue
Banded Mongoose
That sounds most excellent! Looking forward to reading what you came up with, especially with regards to the maneuver drive (thrusters). The one they came up with in the old SOP was interesting and I really liked the entire thrust vectoring part (with rapidly dropping efficiency as you vectored it away from straight backwards). As you mentioned Traveller 5, I take it you are going with the idea (or option) of limiting thrusters to 1000 diameters of a major mass (gravity well) given in T5, or am I mistaken?
Anyway, for all the tech, not just thrusters, you can invent all sorts of theories and/or technobabble for the why it works, but I'm mainly interested in how it works - the effect of said tech in practice (what you can do with it).
Sigtrygg
Emperor Mongoose
Will you finally explain where waste heat goes?
Will you make some attempt to reconcile known science with the handwavium?
Will you explain gravitics - artificial gravity, acceleration compensation, null-grav modules
What will the m-drive paradigm be this time around?
Will you end the hydrogen filled jump bubble debate?
Will you include the ramifications of damper technology at TL12?
GabrielGABFonseca
Cosmic Mongoose
Yes-ish.
Yes.
Yes.
T5 Compliant, but incorporating the concepts of the original SOM of thrust output varying with angle, etc.
Hopefully.
To some extent; for instance, we point out that nuclear dampers are in large part what makes fusion reactions so easy by artificially decreasing the repulsion between nuclides due to the strong force, therefore requiring colder temperatures to achieve fusion at the cost of the energy yield in the reaction.
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
I'd tinker a bit more with the gravitationally motivated drives.
I'd suggest more extensive customization options, at introductionary technological level, not just budget and advanced.
Lifters could be organic, or an add on.
I'd suggest more extensive customization options, at introductionary technological level, not just budget and advanced.
Lifters could be organic, or an add on.
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