>> What's the Traveller equivalent of a Star Wars Blaster? Is there one?
I really prefer not to *try* to mix these sorts of genres.
Traveller, as fantastic as it is, has a much different feel to it than
Star Wars. Perhaps I've been in the PBEM too long, but for me,
Traveller has greater versimilitude.
> Recreating Star Wars using Traveller is a matter of making a number of
> decisions regarding translation. My inclination would be to treat the
> Star Wars blaster as a laser pistol, and the Force as straight psionics.
> It's the light saber that is hard to translate, since I can't come up
> with a good explanation for it that doesn't involve force field tech
> that Traveller doesn't have.
Not that hard. The light saber is, essentially, ancient technology
in the hands of a small religious sect, powered (if I recall correctly) by
the psionic energy of the user (aka The Force). Light sabers in Star Wars
weren't something you could pick up down at the corner Sears. They were
legendary in their ability to penetrate whatever you stuck 'em in, only the
jedi had 'em, and the jedi built their own.
Steven J. Owens
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