[email removed] (J Roberson) responded:
>> Islam == people who have embraced TNE?
>Depending on your POV, it might be more applicable to equate the
>Mromons with TNE people, making the TNE rules the Book of Mormon.
Not meaning any disrespect but would that make them Latter Day
Travellers? BTW has anyone else noticed the recent news release from
Iran. Their High Ayatollah has decreed that it is sacrilege for muslims
to watch TV via sattelite.
SPLITTING GROUP
I am not in favor of splitting the group. I have CT, Mt. & TNE and have
played all incarnations starting w. CT in the eqarly '80s. I enjoy
reading the thought's others have regarding all types of Traveller as
well as both official and individual campaigns. The use of identifying
headers seems a brilliant idea. If you don't play the game, ignore the
message and why flame the other system when the bandwidth could be
better used to crow about the system you're fond of using.
DEEP SPACE STATIONS: (in a Steve Urquel voice) "Did I do that?" At
least I think I mentioned something about them that started this round
of discussion. IMHO DSS's can make economic sense given the right set
of circumstances (distances of systems and the political/economic
situation of those systems) as well as military sense.
I can not remember (in CT, MT, or TNE) anything from GDW indicating the
mechanics of how a ship navigates (astrogates for us Latter Day
Travellers) through jump space. I can think of three methods:
1) A vector (distance & direction) is always directly related to
jumpspace navigation; if I wish to jump two parsecs 270 degrees from my
current forward position the parameters necessary to achieve that can be
directly calculated.
2) Jumps are made toward gravity sinks. When I start to enter jump
space the ship is attracted to gravity nodes - the navigator allocates
the proper amount of enery to drop out of jumpspace outside 100
diameters to avoid merging with heavenly bodies. Or as Han Solo put it,
"It's no mean trick. Be nice if we rushed it and passed right through a
star or some other friendly spatial phenom like a black hole. That
would end our trip real quick."
3) Jumps might be calculated toward objects emitting sufficient
radiation (for a sufficiently long enough time - at least a dozen years
or more) to be detected by starship sensors and used to lock in a
course. Obviously a DSS would not emit enough radiation nor would it be
in existence for a long enough period of time if it did.
Looking at the "official" evidence either methods 2 or 3 seem to be the
correct method, probably 2 since gravitational fields are specified as
being involved in the procedure (one must be at a sufficient distance to
avoid having gravity interfere with the jumpdrive.
As was pointed out during the 5FW neither side made use of DSS's and
while the 3I & Zhos may be a lot of things neither group would be likely
to pass up any advantage, no matter how risky.
PBJuzyk | 'Most plans don't even survive
Reading, PA | contact with Reality'
Terra/Solomani Rim (1827 G867975-8) | -Hammer Lanthrop, *Smash & Grab*