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Yes, now that you mention it.
What sci-fi convention do you chair?
So what? Tell me how to answer a techie question when 1) You don't what the hell the technology is and B) You don't know how the hell the technology works?
True, although somehow the game fails to reflect that fact in ship combat. Hull damage never effects a vessel's jump rating except by destroying the vessel entirely. Odd, no?
Hmmm. The damage table on Page 30 of LBB:2 reads in part:
Seeing as the MWM Jump Space essay post-dates HG2, yes. But you can also see that LBB:2 has much the same results. Is there any version of Traveller ship combat in which a hull hit or cumulative hull hits degrade jump performance? Degrade jump performance before destroying the entire ship that is.
Please explain how exactly an Atomic reactor works, the complete cycle of 1 molucle of H20 from when it becomes a rain drop to when it becomes a rain drop again.
That's assuming you can recover the gas when you drop out of Jumpspace. I can imagine that the gas needs to be replenished during Jump as it, erm (waves hands) percolates out of the J-field, and any left at the end of your J will be lost to hard vacuum upon return to realspace.
That's true if the Jumpfield-bounded space remains at near-absolute-zero throughout the week. If heat cannot easily cross the jumpfield barrier to be lost in J-space, the volume inside the J-field will get hotter and hotter until you can no longer cool the J-drive. So the gas has to 'percolate' across the barrier, carrying enough excess heat to keep the ship comfortable. Now, since ships' exteriors can get pretty hot without damage, it might be feasible to say that in YTU, the space between hull and J-field actually becomes filled with a quite high-energy plasma by the time the journey is complete, and the dispersing clouds of cooling hydrogen would leave traces of Jump-emergence for quite some time, as well as the gaseous eruption being detectable.
Sorry about being so blunt. Didn't mean it to come out that way.Originally posted by DaveChase:
Please explain how exactly an Atomic reactor works, the complete cycle of 1 molucle of H20 from when it becomes a rain drop to when it becomes a rain drop again.
Point is Explain how you want to in your Role Playing Game. If you have characters that want to know exactly how it works, suggest that those characters become scientist and role-play research it out.
Some times the fun of the game gets lost in the details
Dave
Not to nitpick or anything, but in the Navy, you are expected to know a LOT about how the ship works. Theoretically, someone who's been on board a ship for 3 years with a paygrade of E5 or higher should know how to operate just about any of it. Not saying they become experts at it, but even the CO knows how the steam cycle works and what the ship can and can't do.
Certain materials in close proximity start a cascading reaction whereby the change in mass is converted to energy. If you keep this running at a rate by which it maintains heat output, but does not reach a bursting point, then that heat can be used to boil a kettle. The steam from the kettle spins a turbine, inside the turbine are magnets. Spinning magnets cause an electronic flux in a nearby coil.
