Re: (4157) Nuclear dampers and alien romance

"J.A.F.O." [email removed] writes:

> I recently shelled out on a copy of Hard Times
> (wot no virus?) and was intrigued
>  by part of one of the scenarios in which the
> evil (boo hiss) pirate is tricked
> into stealing this ship with a nuclear damper
> in the cargo hold,  when said
> baddie stores his nukes in there this device
> renders them PERMENANTLY inoperable
> ............ comments any one?
> If this is the case in the Trav' universe then surely
> you might be able to use
> one to tidy up radioactive messes?
>
> NB   PLEASE,  no 400 megabyte physicist raves about all this! PLEASE....
> I have enough trouble staying awake long enough over the gravitics debate :)

OK.  I'll keep this very short. (-:  You're right.  A damper can clean
radiaoactive messes.  This function is specifically described in the
advanced rules for Striker (Book 2 out of 3), which is unfortunately a
little hard to come by right now.

This, by the way, is another example of a MT problem--the old-timers know
what a damper is and roughly how it works, but it isn't described anywhere
in MegaTraveller...lots of Striker stuff in MT without the required
explanations...

Rob Dean