Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

[Fellgar]

Have they also shrunk down the germanium cores of the K-F drive? Because having 95% (or 47.5%) of a ship's mass be K-F drive kind of sucks.

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Read the story.

 

[wellis]

Read the story.

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Funny thing, a Battletech K-F drive is closest to a Traveller hop drive (i.e. a hop-1 drive is capable of 10 parsecs a week).

 

[Blade4]

On the other hand battletech jumps drives are literally instant. It just takes time for them to charge up but once it has a charge it can go anywhere in range instantly.

So... uh... kind of broken.

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Actually no. Jumping takes at least 30 seconds to transit. Longer for greater mass being moved and the distance. With a arrival bloom of anomalous heat where a ship will arrive that grows with jump time until the ship actual translate in. A fun factoid with the largest shipjump/warships the heat bloom can appear at the arrival point even before the ship initiates jump.

 

[cliffc999]

Funny thing, a Battletech K-F drive is closest to a Traveller hop drive (i.e. a hop-1 drive is capable of 10 parsecs a week).

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I didn't even know that edition of Traveller existed, but I doubt I'll be paying much attention to it.

 

[wellis]

I didn't even know that edition of Traveller existed, but I doubt I'll be paying much attention to it.

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Traveller 5th Edition had an...interesting development I recall. And yes the core rulebook is not really liked either.

Do you go with GURPS Traveller and/or Mongoose Traveller mostly?

 

[cliffc999]

GURPS Traveller and OG Traveller mostly, yes.

 

[wellis]

GURPS Traveller and OG Traveller mostly, yes.

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Nice. While Cepheus Engine is a fork of Mongoose Traveller 1e (the Pathfinder to its 3.5 you could say), one thing I do like is the extensive support for 3rd party campaign settings which are often pretty different from the Charted Space setting.

 

[Setras]

Yes, cue the screeching

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Nah, this was a good move. It's not like she won't have tons and tons of inventions of similar scale down the track to cement her place, and this way she probably won't be the primary Vilani target.

 

[KugelBlitzner]

How does the battletech armor compares to traveller?