OK, before this site gets cobwebs, I'll post something to maybe stimulate some discussion. ;) Just a general query to collect and compare ideas: how do you...
Martin asked -- ... In general, IMTU (& IOTU, AFAIK) starport law levels (within the XT line) are around 3. Starport security is armed at law level 0. This ...
... The magazine Far & Away #1, p. 24 lists the chance that a starport offers guards ($25 * 1d6/week) for hire. Judges Guild's Fifty Starports lists different...
The magazine Far Away #1 always talks about and gives charts for a given Starport 'extrality' - whether it is treated as part of the plantary government or...
In a message dated 5/13/05 8:19:18 AM !!!First Boot!!!, ... I've always considered that the Starport would be a purely non-planetary, Imperial run organization...
... with ... Sorry Chad, no offence intended in all that follows; I really appreciate your reply. I know this seems like a lot of nitpicking, but it's cos I've...
... a given ... plantary ... significantly ... planetary, ... boarded in ... disabled) as soon as ... ortillery (naval ... Yes, I've been thinking that some...
Martin wrote -- ... Yes, we do. It's called "anything approaching within 50km without authorization is pulverized" and "enter your identification credentials...
In a message dated 5/15/05 8:06:50 AM !!!First Boot!!!, ... The only logical way I can see a low level starport is a locally (non imperial) controlled one at a...
... (non ... low level just ... So what do you think about Chad's take on it? I need to get my head around his sociology before I can make much comment on his...
Martin, responding to sethkimmel, wrote -- ... Heh, heh. Messing with heads is my profession. ... Indeed; please consider my notion that starports are more...
In a message dated 5/16/05 8:13:11 AM !!!First Boot!!!, ... between worlds, and the protection and encouragement of free trade through the Imperium. Too much...
... A "handful of suicide gunners" every month or so? How exactly do you recruit for this job? Especially when the goal it as vague a "put pressure on the ...
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I added Tom Bont's old program that you can build 3d maps with. It will randomize worlds or you can design your own. I just remembered it this weekend and...
... government. ... until ... you recruit ... on the ... I don't know, ask Osama. The middle east today,for example, seems to be full of people who are only...
... Just Curious – why don't you like Book 5 / Spinal Mounts? ... Leading to long C3 protocols. ... keep a ... shooting ... So letter-code law levels run...
Martin wrote -- ... Two reasons: 1. Actual physical meson don't work the way "meson" guns do; not even close. PAWS are OK, though. (This leads to the amusing...
There are other variations on government types that could be added to, or derived from, those in BT. I'm thinking that the most promising would be a type of...
... Enlighten me. ... I'm not sufficiently into canon to have read this stuff. ... I'll take your word for it, but I'll keep book 5 IMTU thanks; I'll paint a...
Martin wrote -- ... Real-world mesons decay as an inverse function of range. Accelerating them to relativistic speeds merely stretches out the slope, it...
Martin wrote -- ... Neither. "Republican" in the technical sense of "not direct democracy, but rather democracy-by-proxy, where the populace chooses the small...
... Even dead they'd leave evidence. ... Well, in a low-level starport (such as Jode) there is not much to prevent an attack like that the first time, but I...
When designing ships, how do people interpret the Book 2 'one engineer per 35 tons of installed drive' rule? Do you take it as 1 per full 35 or 1 per 35 or...
I've been following this thread with interest and have a couple of points I'd like to throw into the debate - at the risk of fanning the flames ;-) You don't...
In a message dated 5/19/05 8:08:16 AM !!!First Boot!!!, ... so in game terms (especially LBB5) they (Meson spinals) are like PA spinals? [Non-text portions of...
In a message dated 5/19/05 8:08:16 AM !!!First Boot!!!, ... I've always considered that in the states', that the closest job to a Traveller (merchant at least)...
In a message dated 5/19/05 8:08:16 AM !!!First Boot!!!, ... gee like a certain representitive republican democracy superpower...;-) ? [Non-text portions of...
In a message dated 5/19/05 8:08:16 AM !!!First Boot!!!, ... I usually use republican small r to designate form of government and Republican capital R to...
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