Loren writes:
>Mark wrote:
>> Life support. There is a set of numbers in a table,
>> but no info on how to apply them. Is is per lifeform per
>> 24 hour period or what?
>Nope. Life support machinery is assigned on the basis of
> overall displacement, I believe.
Ok, so are the numbers in the table per displacement ton of the vessel?
I remember MT ship builders removing displacement of hull armor, fuel
tanks and in some cases even cargo space, before calculating life support
values. Saves a few Cr here and there as well as some space and power.
Another trick I remember reading about was to allocate a few extra meters
of volume for each airlock and cargo hatch. This was used to mount laser
rifles or VRF Gauss guns tied to the Anti-Hijack Program.
Such anti-personnel devices would come in quite handy while exploring the
wilds. Some other simple measures would be claymore mines (or the
equivilent) attached to the landing legs of your scout ship. Patch control
wires up the bridge. Of course you could use your turret mounted laser,
but that's a bit of overkill and you can't track things once they get too
close. One CT GM I knew was fond of the trick Han Solo used on his ship.
A pair of waldo mounted twin laser rifles that dropped from the belly of the
ship, again controlled by the anti-hijack software with console overrides
on the bridge.
Two more BL nits.
First, I said the scout in the TNE source book only had two small state-
rooms. I was wrong. It's two large and two small, just like BL. Both the
TNESB and BL list the large as double occupancy. Add the two smalls and you
have 6 onboard adventurers. CT allowed 8. Refit the small stateroom to
double and we're back on track. While I'm on this subject, I don't recall
seeing any cost/vol/mass differences between a single occupancy stateroom and
a double/trip/quad occupancy stateroom. Is this a designer/GM call?
Second, Drones. The BL technical book lists two drones. Both are sensor
drones with active and passive sensors. The rule book mentions jamming
drones. No stats on jamming drones. Wait till FF&S and build our own?
One more thing on the drones. The lower tech level drone seems more efficent
to me. Are the numbers correct?
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Mark Urbin Racal-Interlan Boxborough, MA These opinions are mine.
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immane mittam.
( Tr. "I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an
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