Re: Deep Space Refueling

In TML Archive-Message-Number 7309, J Roberson [email removed]
writes:

> I always thought that there weren't deep-space refueling stations in
> Traveller because ships don't just refuel, they discharge energy. I know
> that was true in 2300AD and I'm pretty certain that's how jump worked in
> Battletech, and I guess I always assumed it was true in Traveller. Jump
> Drives must discharge accumulated energy before moving on, and they must do
> so in a significant gravity well. A deep space station with that much
> gravity would need a celestial body, or be a truly immense (possibly Dyson
> Sphere-scale) station. Lemme know if I'm wrong. . .

You're wrong. :^)

mark f. cook * 2055 sw whiteside dr. * corvallis, or * [email removed]
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