From the "mote" to "The Gripping Hand"

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Shalom Zaidfeld said:

>Michael Basinger said:
>
>>One idea I had for a Traveller game, was a
>>campaign based in the universe of Mote in God's
>>Eye (by Niven and Pournelle).
>
>very good book in my own opinion.  I was think
>about it too.  It shouldn't be hard, It would be
>nice to be able to  generate a PC based on the aliens :)
>
>was there a follow book after Mote.. ?

Yes!  It's call the "Gripping Hand" and it's out on paper back.  I
personally perfer the original but GH is still quite good.

>
>>The technology of this universe is very simular.
>>The jump drive (Aldersen Drive) is more powerful,
>>but also more limited. In the
>>Langstrom field is basically a black globe device.
>
>The aldersen Drive could be discribed as a Jump Drive.
>Probebly Jamp-4 or 5 ?.. not sue.  and the Black
>Globe thing, well I don't think it's the same as in
>Traveller, but a nice device indeed.
>
I thought the Alderson Drive is more like the Wormhole drive mentioned
in FF&S.  Specifically the closed type.  You right in that the
principle for the Lanston Field is different than the Black
Globe...but I always though if it quacks and walks like a duck, it's a
duck.

Also I think the "mote"'s universe haven't mastered control of gravity
yet.

Good Luck!

- -Edward Fok