First off, I've gone and decided to read through the Regency section
in the TNE book.
<The also might have a few nasty viruses in bottles to unleash on
opponents.> The Regency does have a bottled, and maybe semi-tame
virus it is using (though if asked they don't have such a thing). And
there is a concern between all the Spinward states of going to war
because of the Virus threat, either because your enemy well set it on
you, or because it might leak through because your assets are tied up
fighting the other guy.
<An interesting concept. Does this mean *every* military asset in the
Regency must be retrofitted in some fashion?> This seems to be the case.
And makes sense.
<internal disorder (Rebellion)> This seems to be the biggest factor,
but it looks like I said earlier. It seems to be restricted to
assassinations.
<Kirsch> Care to post your designs? I'm sure there are plenty of people
who might like to see/use them.
<Kirsch: Is someone compiling the submitted weapon specs in one archive?>
I have something of a compilation. There aren't many yet.
<Howie: GM=1> Government Modifier? I'm not sure offhand, but that's my
guess.
<I presume "Early" "Average" and "High" technologies correspond to TL
13, 14 and 15?> See Megatraveller. Early Stellar, Average Stellar, and
High Stellar. I think 9-11, 12-13, and 14-16?
<Plus RCEs and Regency ship classifications will differ...Please
xpand on this point.> The RCES seems to have very limited ship building
capacity. Actually change that to has very limited ship building capacity.
The Regency on the other hand still has almost the entire shipbuilding
capacity it did before the Virus (and might even be better now after the
Virus do to various needs).
<BTW, how can I get at more documentation of this sort?> On disk. IBM.
By joining HIWG.
<Jeff: Also, can anyone tell me how to go about getting the Sunbane
sectors> Same as previos answer.
<What I'd like to know is, "What publishers' material is considered
'official'?"> GDW, DGP, FASA. High Passage, 3rd Imperium(?), Far
Traveller(?). Maybe more. I think it mostly depends on what the
main writers considered worthwhile material. Or the quality of the
material itself.
<Fuedal Technocracy> An idea here might be rather than shares in a
corporation the vassals. They might give patents instead (at least this
would allow for something different than shares, though shares seems
to have been what has been used by the Imperium).
<A zillion watt particle accelerator in a jillion ton vessel is
useless if you've burnt off all the antennas. maybe you could look
through a porthole and aim??? :)> In designing large vessels at least.
I'd have two thoughts. First would be back-up folding array antennas,
the second would be either missile(rpv) or fighter based sensor arrays that
feed the info to the larger vessel and for that matter extend it's
sensor range.