Rob Miracle replies to my comments on The Kinunir (Adv 1):
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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).
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Well, there may be a fair amount of continuity in things Traveller-esque,
but to this old scarred veteran (1st printing of rules), the fact that there
were two incompatible editions of High Guard, not to mention four incompatible
combat systems (Book 3, Snapshot, Azhanti High Lightning, Striker), two margin-
ally compatible character generation systems, and at least two incompatible
trade and commerce systems prior to the publication of MegaTraveller (Which,
much as I love, still has uncorrected errors-a subject for another letter),
makes that the nature of that continuity a little suspect. I know that I had
designed several fleets before High Guard was released (the 1st repudiated
edition) in which, since a 5000ton hull was the biggest there was, those
were the battleships, and so on scaled down the line. A 1200 ton "cruiser"
falls right in line with that.
Rob Dean