Dear Folks -
Errata - difficult? Never!
I have a soft spot for MT errata. (Long-time readers will remember my revised Robots transmission rules!)
FWIW, I know the following:
- the MT authors essentially were Joe Fugate and Gary L. Thomas, despite the cover saying "Marc Miller" (Marc had overall control of the Traveller line at the time, and was a "known" name, which is why he was credited with MT)
- their intent was to fuse together CT and Striker (i.e. go further than the brief "Integrating Traveller" pages from Striker Book 3) - basically, they started out just like you guys here, fans who just wanted to update the ruleset!!! (remember that everyone, before you start throwing stones!)
- the original LBB's were typed directly into a typesetting machine, and therefore the text was not available in an electronic format
- this meant that the MT rules all had to be laboriously re-typed into a word-processing package on a "modern" 1985 computer
- this is the PRIMARY reason for all typos, missing text - and the changed wordings! (try comparing the content of the old Supplements 8 & 11 with the new Imperial Encyclopedia and you'll know what I mean by this)
- in an email to me, Dave Nilsen said that one of the many drivers for TNE was that GDW had done such a bad job of proofreading MT (actually he said "we f**ked up - that's honest, isn't it?"), and they wanted to put out a more polished, thought-out system (BTW, my complaint was TNE's lack of backward compatability, but that's just me!
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With that background out of the way (hey, maybe that can be worked into an intro for your new manuscript!), here's a few techo answers, at least:
TL Power
20 0.1 kW
This table originally came from Grand Survey's vehicle-mounted sensors.
0.1 kW +10
Now you know.
Errata - difficult? Never!
I have a soft spot for MT errata. (Long-time readers will remember my revised Robots transmission rules!)
FWIW, I know the following:
- the MT authors essentially were Joe Fugate and Gary L. Thomas, despite the cover saying "Marc Miller" (Marc had overall control of the Traveller line at the time, and was a "known" name, which is why he was credited with MT)
- their intent was to fuse together CT and Striker (i.e. go further than the brief "Integrating Traveller" pages from Striker Book 3) - basically, they started out just like you guys here, fans who just wanted to update the ruleset!!! (remember that everyone, before you start throwing stones!)
- the original LBB's were typed directly into a typesetting machine, and therefore the text was not available in an electronic format
- this meant that the MT rules all had to be laboriously re-typed into a word-processing package on a "modern" 1985 computer
- this is the PRIMARY reason for all typos, missing text - and the changed wordings! (try comparing the content of the old Supplements 8 & 11 with the new Imperial Encyclopedia and you'll know what I mean by this)
- in an email to me, Dave Nilsen said that one of the many drivers for TNE was that GDW had done such a bad job of proofreading MT (actually he said "we f**ked up - that's honest, isn't it?"), and they wanted to put out a more polished, thought-out system (BTW, my complaint was TNE's lack of backward compatability, but that's just me!
)With that background out of the way (hey, maybe that can be worked into an intro for your new manuscript!), here's a few techo answers, at least:
That should read:
TL Power
20 0.1 kW
This table originally came from Grand Survey's vehicle-mounted sensors.
The last line should read:
0.1 kW +10
Now you know.
