Shields/Dune

BAD SHARPE! NO BISCUIT! Body shields= force fields= STAR TREK or
STAR WARS. NOT TRAVELLER. Non-physics. Much useless handwaving.
Enough trouble with thruster plates already. Bad bad bad.

metlay

>Has anybody ever explained the body shields from Dune in traveller terms.
>Tech Level, How they work, cost, and game machincs?

I'd probably rate them as an inferior form of white globe.  Therefore,
TL=20+  I seem to remember personal white globes as being TL=21 so it
might be possible to put them in at high TL20.  I won't say anything about
how they work.  The cost is going to be excessive if you can even locate
the things.

It might be saner to rate them as even more advanced than white globes since
they have properties that white globes aren't supposed to have --- transparent,
only allow slow things through.  I know that no players I GM for would get
their hands on a (fully) working version ;-}



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> Subject: (3358) Re: Shields/Dune
>
> BAD SHARPE! NO BISCUIT! Body shields= force fields= STAR TREK or
> STAR WARS. NOT TRAVELLER. Non-physics. Much useless handwaving.
> Enough trouble with thruster plates already. Bad bad bad.

  Ehrrm... Check out the secondary function of the oynssork (sp?) in the
adventure in the good old Droyne alien module... :)

> metlay

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