Why not? All of the major control inputs are recorded in aircraft black boxes today. I would think it would be trivial to record virtually all of the control inputs at higher TLs.
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Why not? All of the major control inputs are recorded in aircraft black boxes today. I would think it would be trivial to record virtually all of the control inputs at higher TLs.
Yes and no. They are input for a VERY finite amount of time. Not weeks.
There is no technical reason you couldn't. I was commenting on the rules as written though. It is technically possible to put every ship captain under "truth serum" when they land at a star port also. It's just not how the rules are written for star port operations...
MT SSOM specifically does have an FDR recording all major controls for at least a month. It's the only canonical source that gives details at all about the Transponders and FDRs, but one of the adventures mentions going through a ship's records for several months.
If getting that sub 1% APR starship loan requires submitting to biweekly data dumps, most captains will submit. It's cheaper to comply than to work around. Which makes those not submitting stand out even more.
And many FDRs on jumbos DO record all major control settings for over a week. The older foil ones recorded a dozen controls for over a week... by engraving in aluminum foil. Newer ones should have the same data load, as well as much more short term. I can't see the FDR not including input coordinates for several months.
If getting that sub 1% APR starship loan requires submitting to biweekly data dumps, most captains will submit. It's cheaper to comply than to work around. Which makes those not submitting stand out even more.
And many FDRs on jumbos DO record all major control settings for over a week. The older foil ones recorded a dozen controls for over a week... by engraving in aluminum foil. Newer ones should have the same data load, as well as much more short term. I can't see the FDR not including input coordinates for several months.
Yes, I know. But, this is the D20 forum so I don't really take it into consideration when talking about rules for the setting...
Hunter certainly did in writing T20. As did most of the playtesters. (Yes, I'm on that list.)
My opinion differs. Rules are reflections of the setting. They simplify something that is, conceptually, every bit as complicated as the real universe in order to make it playable. Different rules sets do this in different ways, depending on what aspects of that very complicated "reality" their authors felt like highlighting. People of the OTU don't really operate in character classes, you know. That's only a game artifact of T20. Just look at some different RPG rules based on the very same historical setting, and you'll find that they can, seemingly, feature some very different places where only the names are the same. T20 supposedly describes the very same universe that, 125 years later, were described by the MT material. Inevitably there are some discrepancies that can't be explained by changes in practice over 125 years and must be reconciled by deciding that one or the other (or in rare cases both) are wrong, wrong, wrong[*]. But with that caveat, evidence for how the OTU works is evidence for how the OTU works, regardless of where it comes from.
[*] There is admittedly an added complication when it comes to a fictive universe like the OTU. If one historical RPG claims that the King's Musketeers of 1625 France had 120 men, all noblemen, and another claims that it was 600 men, officered by noblemen but manned by commoners, then (at least) one of them is flat out wrong, and if you can dig out the proper historical documentation, you may even be able to prove which one it is. For a similar discrepancy in the OTU, there's always the chance that it's a genuine retcon.
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In a way I disagree. Or rather views it this way. it is not a rule, but setting information on how things are done in 3I. Rules in this context I understand as how the game is played (number of dice, type of dice, task system, chargen and so on).
So regardless of rules canon/setting information is more or less the same.
And as someone mentioned previously, recording of several input data in the FDR may be a requirement from both the bank and the insurance company. And probably from the local interstellar power too.
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A note on the nautical chart I am working on right now made me think of this thread...
"The following vessels entering or departing any U.S. port of place and in transit through the reporting area are required to report into the System: all vessels 300 gross tons or greater and all vessels in the event of a developing emergency. The following vessels in transit through the reporting area should report into the System: all vessels 300 gross tons or greater, fishing vessels, and all vessels in the event of a developing emergency. See IMO SN.1, Circ. 273. Information concerning the Ship Reporting System is also published in the U.S. Coast Pilot 7, Chapters 2 and 14, and updated through Notices to Mariners. Information may also be obtained at the Office of the Commander, 14th Coast Guard District in Honolulu, or at the Office of the District Engineer, Corps of Engineers, in Honolulu."
"The following vessels entering or departing any U.S. port of place and in transit through the reporting area are required to report into the System: all vessels 300 gross tons or greater and all vessels in the event of a developing emergency. The following vessels in transit through the reporting area should report into the System: all vessels 300 gross tons or greater, fishing vessels, and all vessels in the event of a developing emergency. See IMO SN.1, Circ. 273. Information concerning the Ship Reporting System is also published in the U.S. Coast Pilot 7, Chapters 2 and 14, and updated through Notices to Mariners. Information may also be obtained at the Office of the Commander, 14th Coast Guard District in Honolulu, or at the Office of the District Engineer, Corps of Engineers, in Honolulu."
