Re: Request for Traveller Tech

> > > Swap your hand comp rom pack out and put in a module for local street
> > > slang.  Then when the local street scum question whether you belong on
> > > their turf, you can respond to them eloquently with out resorting to
> > > violence.
> > 	Uhmm... yes, but where do you find a street slang module?
> > Perhaps by dropping by the local major university's linguistics or
> > anthro dept...
>
> I somehow can't visualise this.
>
> Scum: Hey, dude, where the *@#! are you from?
> PC (looks at handcomp, presses a few keys, face lights up):
>       I's out of that there !#$@ just round the sqorner.
> Scum: That there's one real *&^% looking piece of gear. Hand over, now, $%&*!

	You're right, you can't visualize it.  For one thing, in the campaign
supposedly *everyone* has handcomputers.  Kinda like a watch, or driver's
liscence.  For another, the input wouldn't be that slow, nor the output,..

Scum: Hey, dud, where the *@#! are you from?
PC (pauses for a moment, his eyes inscrutable behind a set of heavy wrap-
    around shades)  I's out of that there !#$@ just round the sqorner.
Scum: #$%% ensem there, you're ice.  Let's find some $%#

	Since the PC is using a set of eyephones, and the computer is equipped
with microphone (and even speakers & subvocal input) the Scum has no idea what
is going on.

> > 	Speaking of which, what kinds of things could I do with my high
> > computer skill?
>
> Well, on one occasion when we were facing an enemy battleship, one character
> with a good computer skill and a good computer hacked into the enemy ship's
> computer, and caused the ship to jump. No-one ever saw that ship again,'
> partly because it had been in near orbit round a planet when it jumped.

	Sounds fun, especially since my computer skill should be high enough
to make that a breeze.  However, our GM has already ruled that ships computers
are generally not acessible from outside the ship.  Does anybody have any
suggestions, or know of any traveller sources that say otherwise?

	So far I've done a few nasty things by sneaking inside the ship to
get access to the computer (with forged documents saying we were from the
starport maintenace service...)

   Steven J. Owens  |  [email removed]  |  [email removed]

"Okay, Major Jonathan "Wrong-Is" Wright rubs his magic ring of Imperial
 Intervention and twenty stormtroopers with battledress and gauss rifles
 pop out of the microwave oven..."

	- Sean T. Grape, in a truly bizarre traveller campaign...