Not worried about the PP crit. My power plants start out high enough that you'd have to really beat that dead horse to totally kill the PP. Just need to get enough fuel in the tank to limp back to a station on such PP as remains, to where the ship can get real repairs.
Escaping from Hellworld is when coldsleep is a reasonable choice.
And a dedicated doc.
If a Meson-T inflicts damage on a 200 kDt battleship it's an average of ~4.7 crits giving a ~78% chance of a PP or JD crit and a 12% chance of ship vaporised.
Clearly an unintended side effect (benefit?) of the drug rules.
"Fast drug is named because it makes the universe (to its user) appear to move much more quickly; the drug slows down personal metabolism at a ratio of approximately 60 to 1. Users are extremely vulnerable because they are living at such a slow rate; but physical aging is also slowed, and the need for consumable supplies is reduced, thus allowing conservation of air and food. Fast drug takes effect immediately upon ingestion; one dose lasts for 60 days, making that time appear to be only one day. " - TTB, pg 106
Well, no, if it's on the crit table, there's no helping it. But there's only a few rolls, less if it's the smaller N mesons, and the M Drive can get hit there as well, which it can't on the main damage table. The results from the crit table will almost certainly result in special circumstances, but for only a few rolls, you can't really apply statistics to it. You just have to plan around possibilities. Which I suppose may include towing a 500,000T hulk.
So ... you'd need some rules covering external towing?
So MgT1 has a thing called Docking Clamps which, if large enough, will allow anything to be towed.So ... you'd need some rules covering external towing?
If it can be towed, I imagine that includes into Jumpspace, though of course the rating of the Jump engine has to be spread over the combination of the towing ship and the hulk. And of course the amount of Jump fuel avalable will be greater. Drop tanks are your friend, here.Interplanetary only, or would you be needing to tow those "dead" hulks through jump space too?
Believe it or not, there is actually a rule for that:
"Fast Drug = Cr 200" - MegaTraveller, Imperial Encyclopedia, pg. 67
If it's the Tigress, then I forsee a future made into razor blades, it's absolutely not worth the effort to repair. If it's one of my pocket battleships, you can get seven in a Lurenti and take them where you like.
It looks like someone decided that the prices for Slow, Fast and Anagathic drugs were too high and dropped them by the time of TTB. I just checked the Facsimile Edition and it has the same prices as my LLB2 (81). My MT Imperial Encyclopedia must be an earlier print as it doesn't have the prices table, but I checked the Errata document and that does have the lower prices.
Typo in LBB2'81?
Fast is TL-9. Fast Antidote is TL-12. Without the latter, your passengers are stuck in corpsicle mode for 5 weeks after a 1-jump trip (or could ride out 8 consecutive jumps (4 jumps at the canonical 1 on/1 off cadence) if that's the plan.
It looks that way. Odd that it isn't picked up in the Consolidated Errata.
An Attribute of 1 is still playable, too. I've had a number of characters I've played with 1's in an attribute.
Yup. IMTU, that's where the Cutter Module comes in handy. Load it with seats and store it at port for the rest of the 60 days (24 hours to the passengers).
