General Getting rid of some Empty Hexes?

[Grav_Moped]

Wow. I was intrigued by the idea of a possible Drop Tank Tender, and then you show me this.

How many Pirates are doing this to hide their refuel points?

Of course, the Imperial Navy would use this idea. Possibly even the Zhodani.

Again, this is likely well beyond TL-15 in the OTU, and moot in most cases because empty-hex jumps are canon -- Ancients could pull it off if they wanted to. Maybe as a "drawbridge" to a world in the middle of a rift... you'd need the "key" to turn the grav field on to be able to cross the rift (though you can do it with matter-collector drives, or patience and a slew of drop tanks). It's better than a hidden mid-rift fuel cache because (if you can't do empty-hex jumps) you simply can't reach it unless the grav field is turned on, even if you know exactly where it is.

The annoying part is that you'd have to send the signal to turn it on at STL speed, and wait. Unless it's Ancients tech and they've got some kind of Jump Radio thing going on...

But if you're not sticking to OTU, this is a really nifty idea.

 

[kilemall]

Again, this is likely well beyond TL-15 in the OTU, and moot in most cases because empty-hex jumps are canon -- Ancients could pull it off if they wanted to. Maybe as a "drawbridge" to a world in the middle of a rift... you'd need the "key" to turn the grav field on to be able to cross the rift (though you can do it with matter-collector drives, or patience and a slew of drop tanks). It's better than a hidden mid-rift fuel cache because (if you can't do empty-hex jumps) you simply can't reach it unless the grav field is turned on, even if you know exactly where it is.

The annoying part is that you'd have to send the signal to turn it on at STL speed, and wait. Unless it's Ancients tech and they've got some kind of Jump Radio thing going on...

But if you're not sticking to OTU, this is a really nifty idea.

A timed gateway will work. You just have to know the schedule.

 

[mike wightman]

Which would be a closely guarded secret and an ideal reward from a scenario...

 

[Spinward Flow]

How many Pirates are doing this to hide their refuel points?

Um ... the successful ones ...?

Being able to hide your fuel caches would be an incredible advantage to, shall we say ... less than legal operators. Being able to operate where no one else expects you to be ABLE to operate becomes a tremendous advantage in surprise, both on offense and on defense ("they couldn't have come from here and they couldn't have gone there" when, in fact, they did).

Traveller Wiki broadly classifies these kinds of "off the star map" locations as being Calibration Points.

A wise Referee will not limit pirates to "known star systems" exclusively for navigation ... (hint, hint) ...