Re: Battle of Two Suns

>Date:     Thu, 28 Jun 90 9:10:51 EDT
>From: "Robert S. Dean" [email removed]
>Subject: (1365)  Battle of Two Suns

>With Regard to Adrian Hurt's commentary on the battle of Two Suns:
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>Now for the question.  The final battle of the Fourth Frontier War was the
>Battle of Two Suns, so called because it took place somewhere between Yres
>and Menorb (see Library Data A-M, and Adventure 1 - Kinunir).  What were two
>battlefleets doing in interstellar space?  (Apart from blowing holes in each
>other! :-)

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>      In my opinion this could not have happened, and is really an artifact
>of an earlier conception of the game.  The particular entry he cites was
>culled from Adventure Module 1 (The Kinunir), which was issued before High Guar
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>came out (I think), and before Trillion Credit Squadron (certainly).  The mere
>fact that that module describes a 1250ton vessel as a "cruiser" compared to
>the later 50,000ton+ cruisers, and equips it with a black glode marks it as,
>shall we say, a trifle obsolete.  (However--the Traveller Adventure includes
>a battle as a deep space refueling rendevous).

Well, there is one thing to consider about this.  In space, stars are rarely
one parsec apart.  I am not sure about the distance between Yres and Menorb,
but for arguments sake, lets assume that it is one hex on the star map.  The
stars could be any place within that hex.  So lets say that this is the setup:

      +-----+
     /       \
    <   Yres  >
     \    *  /
      +-----+
     /     * \
    <  Menorb >
     \       /
      +-----+

The asterik indicates where the stars are.  It is possible that they are close
to being a binary system, just that one doesn't rotate around another.  In
which case the battle could have occured in deep space.

As far as the cruiser comments go, in Suppement 9, Fighting Ships you will see
a whole line of cruisers ranging from light cruisers to heavy crusiers.  The
Kinur (sp) was a colonial cruiser and could have been listed at the 1250 ton
displacement, though I seem to remember it being larger.  (Ah the problems of
not having your reference material handy)  Regardless, High Guard and TCS were
both founded upon the earlier works.  There is a lot of contenuity.  In fact, I
seem to remember the Kinur using the High Guard statistics (don't quote me on
that one).

Just my 0.02 credit's worth for the sake of arguing.... :-)

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