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Does anyone have a list of all the systems the Sindalians ruled from -2074 and -1441?

In personal scale combat when using Destructive trait

Roll damage dice and apply Effect. Say 8. OK, I have that much.

Then apply the x10 to get to 80 damage and then apply armor (say 3) and protection (say 8 for a stone wall)? 69 in this case?

Or do subtract armor and protection first, get -3 in our example, and then have no effect even with Destructive?

In starship combat there are also Destructive trait and also the multipliers for bay and spinal weapons. Where do the multipliers happen there? The bullet point on p 168 of the Core Rules specifically states "AFTER TAKING INTO ACCOUNT ANY ARMOR..." emphasis mine. But if that principle applies it seems to be really reductive of stuff like final mounts. A spinal hit should pretty well eviscerate a free trader.

He has a bunch of stuff on DriveThru, but they're pretty pricey and I can't find any reviews.

So I haven't run a space combat yet but I have an idea where it could happen and depending on how the PCs play their cards this could be a Mexican Standoff. Three separate ships, each hostile to the other.

Problem is, the abstracted nature of relative distance and vectors in the rules, while nicely streamlined, seem difficult to apply in this case.

For example, the range band between the PCs ship and both antagonist 1 and antagonist 2 are each separate variables, plus the range band between antagonist 1 and 2.

How do you track that?

How do you plot it out?

Is there an equation that helps constrain the differences between each of the variables?

I'm not a math guy!?

My head's gonna explode here!

So unless I'm missing something, and I'm pretty sure I'm not. It seems the design team goofed.

The Core/CSC Gauss pistol is 3d6 AP3 on that same token, the gauss rifle is 4d6 AP5.

But when building from the MFC, you get:
Gauss Pistol 3d6-1 AP3
Enhanced Gauss Rifle 5d6-2 AP5

Am I in fact missing a ruling or should I just use my best judgement? My work around if there is bad referencing on the part of design is to say pen +2 ignores the damage fall-off but +3 and up does as listed.

According to canon a standard (small) missile mass 50 kg and each launcher holds three per launch tube. How do you handle in battle reloads in your game if it ever comes up?

Older ship designs (by GDW and others) had gunners sitting in the turrets themselves so access was easy and the only problem was schlepping the 50 kg thingies from storage to turret. More recent design have turret control stations separate from the turret itself implying reloading externally which means a nasty space walk in the middle of battle.

So, how do you referees handle such reloads? Sure, turn lengths are long enough to facilitate reloads but who does the schlepping, what is the risk of being hit while on the outside hull during battle and so on, thoughts?

In Intercept the design system/software has a magazine option where you stipulate the capacity (great for those SDB designs for example) but doesn’t really handle reloads at all past that. Maybe having the Jury-rig team doing reloads?

Apologies if it's been answered, but can't seem to find it.

What proves a character is a mercenary, is it a roleplaying choice of the character in question or is there a more hard rule?

Best I've seen is having a military career at some point but I'd like to think there's a requirement more than 1-2 terms in a military career when trying to bypass Law Level restrictions. I know as GM I can just rule with whatever I like but I like to stick to RAW as much as possible.

A while ago on Facebook I asked the traveller community what interstellar travellers eat. I still like the idea that they eat hard tack and related recipes, but what else do they eat?

I have made quite a few worlds, quite a few of them are unnamed because I’m not good at names. Enjoy.

Cl fishing station
Starport quality: X,
Size: 9,
Atmosphere type: B,
Hydrographic percentage: 3,
Population: 1,
Government type: 0,
Law level: 4,
Tech level: 9,
Trade codes: Fl, Lo
Bases:

Chenoos
Starport quality: C,
Size: 1,
Atmosphere type: 0,
Hydrographic percentage: 4,
Population: 5,
Government type: 0,
Law level: 0,
Tech level: 9,
Trade codes: Ic, Az
Bases:

Great tit colony
Starport quality: C,
Size: 6,
Atmosphere type: 1,
World temperature (optional): N/A
Hydrographic percentage: 4,
Population: 6,
Government type: 2,
Factions(optional):
Culture differences (optional): 54
Law level: 5,
Tech level: 8,
Trade codes: Ic, Na
Bases:

Kingdom of oats.
Starport quality: B,
Size: 4, they have .42 times earth’s gravity.
Atmosphere type: 6, they have .78 atm.
Temperature: temperate, they are 12 degrees Celsius on average.
Hydrographic percentage: 4, 39% of their surface is covered in water and glaciers.
Population: 6, they have 5.4*10^6 people on the planet.
Government type: 3,
Law level: 3,
Tech level: 9,
Trade codes: Ag,
Bases: N.

Lobster doom
Starport quality: B,
Size: 4, they have .4 times earth’s gravity.
Atmosphere type: 7, they have 1.2 Atm and there are so many spores on the planet, the spores take 1d6×10 minutes to affect your lungs, you get use to them after 1d3 months
Hydrographic percentage: A, 2% of their surface area be land, so most people live under water. Most of their mass is still of rock, they just have very high sea levels.
Population: 5, they have 7.2*10^5 people on the world.
Government type: 7,
Law level: 7,
Tech level: G,
Trade codes: Wa, Ht, Az,
Bases: N, S.

RAW in Mongoose 2e explicitly state that "Only fusion and antimatter

power plants can generate the intense burst of energy

necessary to operate a jump drive". Is it within the rules to have a battery system in place that could meet the needs of basic systems in the amount of the jump drive's power requirement?

I don't want to design a power plant that can cover everything since it would be wildly inefficient.

thanks,