CliffBates
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No doubt about it: those weapons are not part of the OTU. They are intended to help Mongoose Traveller adapt to other (e.g. Star Trek) settings.
Then why call it HIGH GUARD.... its sad. Especially the inconsistency with repulsers!
How do you deal with warp and hyperdrive... cause you can't via traveller. H and S drives are still neither. Nor is there subspace communications. Traveller was based on what you had in H Beam Piper, Jerry Pournelle's Mote in God eye, and others view of space travel.. where there will be a lag in moving from one system to another and communication would move at the speed of transport... no faster. So you could hide and escape unlike today's world of global information.