That depends on your understand of how grav works....It can ... when the local gravity is lower than 1G ...
When the local gravity is higher than 1G, the Speeder only has enough thrust capacity for subsonic flight.
Because 2-1 = ?![]()
That depends on your understand of how grav works....It can ... when the local gravity is lower than 1G ...
When the local gravity is higher than 1G, the Speeder only has enough thrust capacity for subsonic flight.
Because 2-1 = ?![]()
If I knew there was going to be a test, I would have studied for it.It can ... when the local gravity is lower than 1G ...
When the local gravity is higher than 1G, the Speeder only has enough thrust capacity for subsonic flight.
Because 2-1 = ?![]()
Honestly I think the discussion of Grav Vehicles and their nature should be it's own thread.If I knew there was going to be a test, I would have studied for it.![]()
Done.Honestly I think the discussion of Grav Vehicles and their nature should be it's own thread.
There are probably different grav motor/air/carriages with different performances.
The original in Dumarest sounded like a flying zodiac, though Traveller's sounds more like a 1 ton truck.
Honestly I trend to compare Air/rafts to Helos, as such there is a wide range of performance. Heck Book3 gives examples of either end of that spectrum... Consider the Speeder.
. . . Conceptually, it's not a helicopter without the spinny things, it's a blimp without the balloon -- you can't tilt it sideways to go faster. This is not compatible with the products of Striker or subsequent design systems though.
Yes, it's an automobile that flies . . . This is what I see the Air/Raft and Grav Belt performance as being like.
And then I went and started that tread.... Mea Culpa....Done.
VW Transoprter Type 2 (T3).I guess that I view Air Rafts as the Traveller equivalent of the passenger pick-up truck. Capable of carrying a small number of people along with some cargo.
When you say "plus 0.1G thrust in any direction" you are using Striker...I've discussed this on other threads, but IMTU the nominal Air/Raft's capabilities are "counteract local gravity, plus 0.1G thrust in any direction" (basically, as described in LBB3). Conceptually, it's not a helicopter without the spinny things, it's a blimp without the balloon -- you can't tilt it sideways to go faster. This is not compatible with the products of Striker or subsequent design systems though.
It's just thrust, like a helicopter.Striker, B3, p8:
__ K. Grav Generators: A grav vehicle requires grav generators installed in its chassis. Each .02 m3 of grav generators produces 1 ton of thrust and requires .1 megawatts of power from the power plant. They weigh 2 tons and cost Cr100,000 per m3.
this is an important aspect to me. If they wanted the air/raft to be ubiquitous then it should have been a lot cheaper. You can get a dozen ground vehicles for the same price pretty much. Though having the ability to fly is good but not always necessary.You always have to bear in mind the price tag.
It's not the family jalopy.
LBB3.81, p21 and TTB, p112:Why most of my ports use ground vehicles for a lot of mundane things: a lot cheaper. And drivers only have to worry about 2D piloting vs 3D (and we all know how crazy everyone else drives!) But: there is always a place for grav vehicles as it is a SF universe and by golly I want my flying car!
Autonomous (self-driving) vehicles certainly seems to be a TL=8 compute solution. When interstellar travel is commonplace, it's actually trivial to assume that TL=8+ vehicles (wheeled, tracked or gravitic) will have autonomous driving capabilities. Fun thing is that you can then bring Law Level into the picture as a "roll lower than Law Level on 2D" for manual driving operation to be street legal on TL=8+ worlds if you want.Most ground cars require a driver, although at higher tech levels the car will steer itself (and on highly civilized worlds driving under human control is illegal in cities).
I’m under the impression that MgT air/rafts are quite a bit cheaper then CT- correct?
That was from MCr6 to Cr600000. Which still makes it ship/gov/service/corps/rich sentient territory.I don't recall off the top of my head and don't have the books in front of me at the moment, but IIRC the price of Air/Rafts were an errata item in CT as well, and came down by about an order of magnitude if memory serves.