In Message 1524, Brent Woods writes:
> Anti-cyborg prejudice? Where'd that come from? The only general <
> prejudice that I know of in the Imperium is *anti-psionic*. Where'd <
> they get a problem with cyborgs? <
I'm not absolutely sure on this, but I think it is found in the Robots book,
under a discussion of when artificially intelligent robots are considered
to be citizens (and not.) I think there was a remark that on some worlds
(not an Imperium wide prejudice) you could lose your citizenship/be
consdiered property for having "too many" cyborg replacement parts.
In Message 1525 Adrian Hurt writes:
> To summarise: at higher tech levels, you may only be able to kit out a<
> small force for the same cash, but you can make it invulnerable to <
> anyone who doesn't do the same. <
Exactly. For a historical example, you need only look at the naval arms races
in the second half of the nineteenth century. The most pressing example is
the Union in the American Civil War which would have found itself completely
unable to deal with Confederate ironclads such as the Virginia (aka Merrimac)
had a building program for their own ironclads not already been started. This
sort of thing was repeated in the naval field frequently--the launching of
the Dreadnaught in 1906 pretty much rendered all previous battleships useless.
A question occurs to me as a result of all of this: Would low tech planets
inside the Imperium, that are not balkanized, maintain any sort of army? If
the only conceivable threat is TL11+ Vargr corsairs, Imperial Marines or
TL14 Aslan, your TL5-8 army will be useless, except to provide target practice
to the invaders.
The tag-end of -bertil-'s Message 1526
> "And your vehicle takes four suspension hits. You are all thrown out <
> of your seats as your tank's 'suspension of disbelief' fails with a <
> grinding noise. 'I won't buy this anymore!' your vehicle says. 'This <
> is ludicrous! Totally unrealistic! I'm outta here!' it says and drives<
> away into the sunset." <
I tend to agree--the vehicle damage rules do not "feel" right to me, compared
to the fairly substantial number of wargames I have/have played. At least
by multiplying the damage numbers by 10, as per the second errata sheet, you
prevent that barbarian from chopping the family car into rubbish with one
stroke of his mighty broadsword...
In Message 1527 Richard Johnson writes:
> To Robert Dean: Stick with it. Just remember, by the time he's a <
> teen-ager, he'll be repaying all those sleepless nights with more <
> sleepless nights. <
> <
> Some folks will go to ANY length to recruit Traveller Players :-) <
> (p.s. I already have four [three adopted]) <
I was just commenting to my wife the other day that we might get in a year
or two of sleep somewhere between the time he starts sleeping through the
night an the time that he starts staying out all night...Actually, we had
him so we could find someone else to play Lace and Steel with (much rarer
than Traveller players). (-: