Re: The Mote in God's Eye

[email removed] writes:
> Shane Said:
>
> >Yes.  It was called "The Gripping Hand" in the US I believe,
> >and "The Moat around Murcheson's Eye" elsewhere.
>
> are you sure?..  "The Mote around Murcheson's Eye"..
> what would be my best option when I look for it?.
> the Gripping Hand or the other name?

It's "The Mote Around Murcheson's Eye" here.  (Here, being the U.K., counts
as "elsewhere" in Shane's text. :-)  Enough other people have mentioned
"The Gripping Hand" on TML to convince me that for some reason, the U.S.A.
does indeed have a different title for the book.  As for what to look for -
take no chances, look for both! :-)

> >It's pretty good as a sequel, but of course like pretty much
> >all sequels it's not nearly as good as the original.
>
> So that's why we have Traveller <smile>

MegaTraveller: it's pretty good as a sequel, but of course like pretty much
all sequels it's not nearly as good as the original.  The same goes double
for TNE. :-)

> umm.. a wormhole.  my impresion from the book was that it
>  seemed more like a jump drive, dunno..

You can only jump between specific points linking pairs of star systems with
an Alderson drive.  A jump drive works from anywhere to anywhere in range.

> I have a question for you, do you remember if in the book
> there discussed about the kind of ships that the Motes had?

Customised!

> I would like to try to design one :)

Good luck!  The Moties rebuilt the thing on the fly.  A High Guard profile
of the ship would basically be a row of question marks.  If the players
got their hands on one, either because it had been abandoned or because
the Moties inside were dead (possibly as a result of interaction with the
PC's ;-) then you could draw up a design for its final state.  Otherwise
the ship is purely a matter of referee's discretion, and liable to change
at any time.

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