Tom asked a couple questions I can answer, but as to Megacorps in the
Rebellion... Well, I never used the Rebellion background.
}1. Is it possible to make pure fusion warheads in Traveller? If so, how
} small can they be usefully made? As they presumably would not be
} affected by nuclear dampers they would be quite devastating.
Yep. They talk a bit about it in the Journal of the TAS issue 21 or
so in the Missiles Suppliment (I think). I don't recall if they had
anything much to say except that the warheads cost something like
1MCr per kiloton yield.
(But that may be the same for fission warheads. I may be wrong but I
think it might have been 10MCr.)
The problem with fusion warheads is that it is inconsistant with High
Guard combat. Surely if you had warheads that could penetrate Dampers
you would use them in preference. It would be more cost effective also
even at ten times the cost. (When you consider how many salvoes get
wiped out by high powered nuclear dampers)
}2. Is it possible for a starship to refuel from ice? If so then any
} iceball can provide fuel, including comets and other pieces of
} junk at the fringes of a system.
Yep again. I can recall a couple of published adventures that relied
on getting fuel from frozen ice asteroids, comets, etc. But they don't
actually mention all the back breaking labor necessary to get all that
ice into the tanks. Imagine filling those huge fuel tanks with picks
and axes and shovels? Even under micro-gravity! :-P And you thought
shovelling the DRIVEWAY was bad...
2G Scott