A thought
Hi,
I apologize for digging up a relatively old post, but I was searching for something on this board, and this topic caught my eye.
I remember that when High Guard originally came out I couldn't really understand what the author's meant a "bay" to be either. The definition from the book made me think that a bay was a large open space that you could fit alot of stuff in, and as such I had originally thought that a particle acclerator bay, might just be a large open space in the hull with a lot of small particle acceletors in it that could be fired in unision, I guess kind of like what you see on some WWII era naval ships where they have a lot of small anti-aircraft guns clustered together in groups.
However, I eventually bought a copy of Azhanti High Lightning and as others have pointed out, from that it appered that they were treating at least some of the "bays" as big turrets.
Additionally I recently picked up a copy of GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars, and in that they provide a definition similar to what was originally written in High Guard (big spaces near the skin of the ship cable of holding various different stuf, including cargo or small craft, etc), however they also note that a bay weapon could also be a large turret weapon.
As such, after reading this and some of the other posts in this thread it got me thinking that the way "bays" have been described is kind of similar to my understanding of the MEKO and/or Stanflex modules mounted on some modern naval ships (like shown in this link)
As I understand it these systems date back to the late 1970's and as such may have been an inspiration to the original Traveller authors.
Regards
PF
Hi,
I apologize for digging up a relatively old post, but I was searching for something on this board, and this topic caught my eye.
I remember that when High Guard originally came out I couldn't really understand what the author's meant a "bay" to be either. The definition from the book made me think that a bay was a large open space that you could fit alot of stuff in, and as such I had originally thought that a particle acclerator bay, might just be a large open space in the hull with a lot of small particle acceletors in it that could be fired in unision, I guess kind of like what you see on some WWII era naval ships where they have a lot of small anti-aircraft guns clustered together in groups.
However, I eventually bought a copy of Azhanti High Lightning and as others have pointed out, from that it appered that they were treating at least some of the "bays" as big turrets.
Additionally I recently picked up a copy of GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars, and in that they provide a definition similar to what was originally written in High Guard (big spaces near the skin of the ship cable of holding various different stuf, including cargo or small craft, etc), however they also note that a bay weapon could also be a large turret weapon.
As such, after reading this and some of the other posts in this thread it got me thinking that the way "bays" have been described is kind of similar to my understanding of the MEKO and/or Stanflex modules mounted on some modern naval ships (like shown in this link)
As I understand it these systems date back to the late 1970's and as such may have been an inspiration to the original Traveller authors.
Regards
PF
