mike wightman
SOC-14 10K
Just a little something to add some in game rational to my gravitic heat sinc idea - DGP invented the gravitic cold berth in one of their equipment arcticles in a Traveller's Digest magazine.
Most has been said already, no amount of recycling is going to make this problem go away. Every process generates waste heat, and fusion reactors and drives capable of pushing a Tigress forward at six gravities are going to make a lot of waste heat.
If the Stealth fighter did not radiate energy by containing/recycling its waste heat, did not use its drives, comms or active sensors and ran off minimum energy draws from the PP. How long will its cold sinks last until it had to radiate waste energy. In addition what other sensors would pick it up?
While noone can hide is space...you can't assume 100% vigilance from humans...especially in lo-pop systems...especially if it costs more than a small world thinks its worth...
perfect knowledge is boring and we need a reason to have passive sensors ( let's broadcast seeing as everyone can see us anyways...) and ECM warfare ( okay..they see us...now lets trick him into thinking its not us..hehehehe )
...I would say TL9 is where absolute zero is reached and commonly used. Use grav tech to freeze all atomic motion and you have absolute zero on the kelvin scale.