In Archive-Message-Number 6362 (Bundle 519) Loren Wiseman
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> Glenn E. Myers
> [email removed]
> I have a few questions concerning BL.
> > (1) Has anyone found the stats for the Manta fuel skimmer
> > listed in the Aurora-Class Clipper.
> Yes. They were right there in Dave's office all the time...: )
> RCES "Manta" Fuel Skimmer
> Rate: 400
> Total Volume: 5600
> Price (MCr): 119.57359
> Configuration: Dome/Disc SL
> ...
I've not purchased a single Traveller product since "Survival Margin",
as I'm not interested in either moving to a game system, or in
abandoning the Imperium. Thus, I've no experience with the "Brilliant
Lances" product for Traveller:TNE. I *am* however, curious to know
where the idea for this Manta 'fuel skimmer' design originated, since
I designed almost *exactly* the same ship (with the same class name)
for the TML PBEM over TWO YEARS AGO. (I have the dated electronic
archives to prove it.) I also find it convienently coincidental that
the clipper it supports is named after *another* starship in the very
same long-running (5 years), international Traveller PBEM, created by
Richard Johnson, and currently run by Mike Metlay and myself.
It looks to me as though someone took the original (PBEM) Manta gas
mining ships and modified the designs to use the new TNE ship design
rules.
Where *exactly* did Dave (Nilsen, I assume) get these ideas?
Mark F. Cook
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