Travellers Needed! High Guard Updates

[Sigtrygg]

Can I pump the entire load of a drop tank into a jump drive in one turn?

I therefore have pumps that can shift that volume of fuel in that time frame.

 

[Condottiere]

Have you tried mounting the fuel bladder on the drop tank mountings and jumped, in official Traveller gaming session?

The results should be illuminating.

 

[Vormaerin]

Last game I was in, we used fuel bladders but they were permanently hooked up to the main tanks and basically part of the cargo hold.

That describes what the Fuel/Cargo container is supposed to be.

 

[Vormaerin]

Can I pump the entire load of a drop tank into a jump drive in one turn?

I therefore have pumps that can shift that volume of fuel in that time frame.

There's a lot of weirdness in Traveller. You can drain a fuel tank in 6 minutes, regardless of size, but filling it at a starport takes 10x+ as long.

With the rules as currently laid out in HG, Fuel bladders are just a cheaper, less space intensive way to allow multiple jumps. Because transferring the fuel from the bladder to the fuel tanks has no listed amount of time necessary. And it isn't clear that you can't just do it during the week in jump, making any time you give essentially irrelevant.

The only actual reason in RAW to use Fuel/Cargo containers is to add cargo space on short jumps when you have a high rated jump drive. And this is so valuable that it is not clear why it is not standard. The flexibility to switch 5/6 of your fuel tank to cargo makes your J6 merchant vastly more viable.

 

[Condottiere]

Considering it's three millenia in the future, you could probable reconfigure the shape, and fill up a cargo hold.

Cargo holds aren't renowned for their plumbing.