Black Globes and other things

This is all from memory as I don't have the old High Guard rules with me at the
time,

        Black Globe generators were designed as an powerful defense system, the
draw backs however are fairly major.
        (1) At tech 15 when they are first introduced they are prototypes,
(Imperial Navy used an High Lighting Class ship to test one)... This gives next
possiblities for worrying players .. will the ship explode when it is turned
on, will it move to a different universe etc etc.
        (2) The Black Globe absorbs all forms of energy. It places a shield
around the ship and absorbs all forms of energy (as defined by Enstein) fired
at the ship. Also all forms of energy from the ship. This means means the ship
is part a of a nasty feedback loop as the ship provides the energy sinks for
the Globe, This means the Globe must flicker to remove the energy which is of a
form that is no good for anything on board. High Guard gives all the rules for
this (40% flicker rate remove 40% of the energy stored)
        (3) The tactical problem of use with the black globe is this. When the
Globe is turned on the ship can't fire, communicate or maneuver. The Ship
maintains it present direction and speed, so the opposite ship hjust predicates
the course of the target and fires when the ship drops its Globe to fire (or
maneuver). You may be invisable but this does not help if the target knows
where you were.
        The tactic suggested by High Guard was to enter the system with the
globe on and drift past the enemy and attack them from behind. (might work)

        Now my defense screen that I would is the personal white globe.


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        If any one writes software to aid the traveller universe (weither the
orginal rules MT or RDT) could they try to make it fairly portable. I use a
basic Atari ST. I know most stuff is written in C but I don't have access to an
ANSI C complier only K&R. This is not a flame or a major gripe as most stuff
that complies on unix complies on my machine, (mine you some stuff I got would
complie on the unix machine I use). It is just a request that the author makes
it clear if the code uses any machine specific commands.

Keep up the good work

Cheers

Dave

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