Low tech surprise!

By Leonard Erickson ·

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I was talking with a friend the other day, annd we got to discussing
some of the "odder" things that can be stolen from older SF and
incorporated into Traveller.

We came up with one that looks like it could be *real* nasty, but I'd
like to bounce it off the ship design folks.

Jack Williamson had a couple of Novels in the 50s set in a version of
the solar system that was a bit improbable then and *totally* impossible
now. But a similar solar system *could exist in this galaxy (it'd just
be *very* unlikely).

Specificly, this system had suffered from an encounter with an
extra-galactic rogue planet. Both it and one of the systems planet
interacted and the result was a large asteriod belt.

I hear you saying "So what?". Well, there's one *teensy* detail... the
rogue planet was antimatter. This means that a rather low tech level
culture could have antimatter powerplants *and* warheads...

Picture the poor unsuspecting Imperial scouts encountering *that*
contradicttion. (Tech level 10 ships with antimatter power! <shudder>)

Anybody think it's worth fudging up some designs for?