Update - The "Verse" for Traveller 2.0

[RYXlord]

In the Verse, the ship's drive provides the power for the ship.

Really? Gosh, that's the first I've heard of it. Maybe I missed something in my research. Where does it talk about that?

 

[MasterGwydion]

Really? Gosh, that's the first I've heard of it. Maybe I missed something in my research. Where does it talk about that?

It was in an episode of the show. Kaylee says if the engine stops then they have no power and no power means no life support.

 

[AndrewW]

Basically, you have the two engines on the pylons for atmospheric thrust and then the pulse drive/power plant. I love Firefly and loved playing the RPG, but it wasn't all that well written.

Don't forget you can also use those engines for doing a Crazy Ivan.

 

[RYXlord]

It was in an episode of the show. Kaylee says if the engine stops then they have no power and no power means no life support.

Gosh, yeah, out of gas. Of course. "We're dead in the water... Main life support is down on account of engine being dead... Engine don't turn, life support won't function, we don't breathe." That would certainly imply that the power supply and main engines are integrated, though presumably it doesn't only provide power while the ship is engaging in pulse-drive maneuvers.

I think, mechanically speaking, it still works okay to treat them as separate systems in a write-up so that it's clear what the tonnage, cost and output of the engine's power production components is in Traveller terms. Might get a little tricky otherwise. It would all be combined on a map though and you might maybe have some crossover when it comes to the crit tables.

 

[MasterGwydion]

Gosh, yeah, out of gas. Of course. "We're dead in the water... Main life support is down on account of engine being dead... Engine don't turn, life support won't function, we don't breathe." That would certainly imply that the power supply and main engines are integrated, though presumably it doesn't only provide power while the ship is engaging in pulse-drive maneuvers.

I think, mechanically speaking, it still works okay to treat them as separate systems in a write-up so that it's clear what the tonnage, cost and output of the engine's power production components is in Traveller terms. Might get a little tricky otherwise. It would all be combined on a map though and you might maybe have some crossover when it comes to the crit tables.

Seems to me to be like a car engine with an alternator. Doesn't have to be providing thrust, but it has to be running.

 

[WHULorigan]

Seems to me to be like a car engine with an alternator. Doesn't have to be providing thrust, but it has to be running.

As I mentioned upthread, it reminds me a little bit of the T5 T-Drive or "Thruster", otherwise known as a Dean Converter. Somehow converts angular momentum from a power plant when engaged to linear momentum / thrust thru a mechanical system.

Makes my internal physicist cringe, but it fits the visual depiction on the show.

 

[Sigtrygg]

Isn't that what a camshaft is for...

May explain all those big rotating things in the engine room.

 

[WHULorigan]

Isn't that what a camshaft is for...

Sure, but a camshaft doesn't violate conservation of momentum . . .

 

[Sigtrygg]

It has artificial gravity and inertial compensation, conservation of momentum fell off many episodes ago...

 

[CordwainerFish]

Sure, but a camshaft doesn't violate conservation of momentum . . .

Not with that attitude it's not.

 

[BloatedBlowfish]

Update Version 2.0: Added an appendix broken down by Sector, listing orbital order, planets and their respective moons.

First post link updated.

Cheers,