Corran:
Now the way that the volume of a jump drive is calculated is (1 + jump)%
of the volume of the hull. This implies that you can fit a jump-1 drive
into an 8 ton hull (ie. 112 cubic metres) and you can fit a jump-6 into
a 3 ton hull.
This is:
a) A mistake - should it perhaps read 2 tons (28 cubic metres)?
b) A _major_ retcon.
Scott2G:
Speaking of Jump drives, I haven't got Brilliant Lances yet, but I hope
that it was NOT a misprint about a 2 cubic meter jump drive being the
minimum rather than 2*(whatever a displacement ton is). A 2 cubic meter
jump drive will now allow such a drive to be installed into the enlarged
TNE missiles, so we can now build Jump torpedoes again.
I don't think this is such a major retcon... If you look at the overall
picture of Brilliant Lances, it seems to be "classic traveller" stuck into a
hex pattern instead of using a milimeter scale. As for the Jump Drives...
it's going to change some things in traveller, but all _that_ much. The
leviathan merchant cruiser had those "jump Torpedoes" which I loved, and
missed in MegaTrav. The Merchant cruiser is, of course, from Classic
Trav...
Seems to me like GDW is not doing too many retcons, but more going back to
what a lot of folks called "the good ole days" of Traveller. The combat
reflects it, the names reflect it, and the "guts" of the system seem to
reflect it. It's obviously not going to be the same, since megatrav and
especially DGP put the "flash" back into Traveller - so now we're expecting
that quality of writing again.
But hey, they're all just my opinions anyway.
joe University of Missouri - Columbia
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