RE: "There are no GRAVITICS in the Eight Worlds universe. Eight Worlds
spacecraft are propelled by reaction drives, the way the gods meant Man to
propel spacecraft. No inertial compensation either. Grunt snort."
My inclusion of gravity drive was done for a couple of reasons:
Traveller spaceships assume that there is some kind of artificial gravity for
the living quarters orientation at least. The rules sort of assume that except
for fighters, all ships have artifical gravity. If they have artificial
gravity, I assume that it's strength can be varied. It may not be dymanic
enough to cushion a crash, but it can certainly be set to some static value to
counteract acceleration.
I have yet to fathom how the majority of Traveller ships land and take off with
out some kind of gravity or auxiliary thrusters. Take the scout ship, which
has the drive in the stern, yet lands horizontally. How does it take off or
land in a wilderness as a scout should be able to do? Since Traveller ships
obviously have some gravitics, why not use some form of gravity drive for at
least the initial liftoff?
I wish Traveller would either explictly define the spaceships gravity drive, or
explain how these ships land and take off without them. And allow for ships
designs with and without the gravity drives.
Jim Baranski
DEC Tewksbury MA
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