mike wightman
SOC-14 10K
The writer of TNE is on record as saying that one of the aims of TNE was to re-write the background and the physics of the OTU.
That makes the earlier versions redundant, I agree, but it also means that the TNE rules should be applicable to the golden age setting.
Doing so, however, alters the way the game works and plays, effectively making it a different universe.
Using CT/MT the repulsor is a TL10+ system, in TNE/T4 it is TL16+; in CT/MT plasma and fusion guns can be used at space combat ranges, in TNE/T4 they can't; in CT/MT the reactionless thruster maneuver drive allows rapid insystem transfer, in TNE/T4 the HEPlaR drive restricts insystem movement... there are others, lots of them.
Deliberately different background physics, therefore deliberately different universe - even the author says so
That makes the earlier versions redundant, I agree, but it also means that the TNE rules should be applicable to the golden age setting.
Doing so, however, alters the way the game works and plays, effectively making it a different universe.
Using CT/MT the repulsor is a TL10+ system, in TNE/T4 it is TL16+; in CT/MT plasma and fusion guns can be used at space combat ranges, in TNE/T4 they can't; in CT/MT the reactionless thruster maneuver drive allows rapid insystem transfer, in TNE/T4 the HEPlaR drive restricts insystem movement... there are others, lots of them.
Deliberately different background physics, therefore deliberately different universe - even the author says so
