What Traveller Ship technology is not in Mongoose? (yet!)

[Nerhesi]

I was randomly browsing when I happened upon Repulsors, and thought damn it - why I can't find Mongoose rules for these!

a) So what significant ship weapons/defenses that have not made it in Mongoose?
b) Are they available in Classic Traveller so that they're easy for me to import?

 

[AndrewW]

I was randomly browsing when I happened upon Repulsors, and thought damn it - why I can't find Mongoose rules for these!

a) So what significant ship weapons/defenses that have not made it in Mongoose?
b) Are they available in Classic Traveller so that they're easy for me to import?

Repulsers where used in the Reigns of Discordia Traveller setting.

 

[alex_greene]

Spinal-mounted disintegrators, D-gun turrets, antimatter spinal guns, ship's transporters, coherent bonded superdense armour, white globes.

Off the top of my head.

 

[Nathan Brazil]

From a certain television show

Tractor beams
Enveloping energy weapons

 

[Nerhesi]

How many of these techs are in classic traveller? And so would be an easy port to mongoose traveller?

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

AI as ships (as in The Culture).

 

[AndrewW]

AI as ships (as in The Culture).

Not precisely AI as ships, but can reside in the ships computer and such with Terra/Sol Games Twilight Sector.

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

AI as ships (as in The Culture).

Not precisely AI as ships, but can reside in the ships computer and such with Terra/Sol Games Twilight Sector.

AI ships would probably be NPCs really, with PCs along for the ride. However, crewless mega-ships are not yet possible rules-wise... probably too new a concept in Sci-Fi for the period that 'Traveller' was written in.

 

[AndrewW]

[AI ships would probably be NPCs really, with PCs along for the ride. However, crewless mega-ships are not yet possible rules-wise... probably too new a concept in Sci-Fi for the period that 'Traveller' was written in.

In this case the AI can be the crew. But AI's can be players. AI's still have skills and the like.

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

I was thinking more of "mind" ships (like a GSV). Far too powerful to be PCs.

 

[middenface]

Fusion Guns (ie not Bay weapons)
Jump Dampers (Megatraveller?)

There was a few bay options missing too I think.

You could argue theres a whole pile of software missing too.

 

[Condottiere]

Gravitic drives for Adventure and Capital class ships.

 

[Old timer]

Gravitic drives for Adventure and Capital class ships.

? The manoeuvre drive is gravitic. Page 42 of high guard says that the gravitic drive is the standard throughout the imperium. All ships in travel use a gravitic drive as standard (the manoeuvre drive).

 

[Condottiere]

I put that down to editorial oversight. Try comparing smallcraft and their larger cousins' drives.

 

[middenface]

I put that down to editorial oversight. Try comparing smallcraft and their larger cousins' drives.

Explain.

For a moment I was thinking reactionless gavitic drives, ala Minbari and Space Opera-ness

:O)

 

[Condottiere]

1. Smallcraft: sK Grav 5t/11MCr; Reaction 2.5t/5MCr [factor2/100T]

2. Adventure: A reaction 2t/4MCr [factor2/100T]

3. Capital: factor2/1.25% extrapolated to 100T is 1.25t/MCr0.625

4. Reference is made to both grav and reaction drives.

5. No effort is taken to add another option.

 

[Jame Rowe]

[AI ships would probably be NPCs really, with PCs along for the ride. However, crewless mega-ships are not yet possible rules-wise... probably too new a concept in Sci-Fi for the period that 'Traveller' was written in.

In this case the AI can be the crew. But AI's can be players. AI's still have skills and the like.

And they can take over robotic "bodies" for off-ship missions too. Possibly leading to complications on lower-tech worlds or in anti-AI places.

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

Or the ship as a single character's "body".