CT Only: TARSUS!

[Supplement Four]

I'm scanning through the Tarsus boxed set. I forgot how cool this set truly is. It's a sandbox in which to set your adventures.

There's an interesting section that describes arrival procedures in-system.

Here's a new throw that you can toss at your players, making the Navigation skill more valuable.

Every time a smaller, private vessel (the commercial ships are not expected to throw this) enters the system, the Navigator throws 10+ to make a mistake in navigation and come out too far from the 100 D limit. DM minus Navigation skill.

If this check succeeds (meaning faulty nav computations), the ship exits 2D times 10 million km farther from Tarsus.

The usual trip, if the ship exits into N-Space at the correct spot, is 47 hours to Tarsus in a 1G vessel.

Man...you could possibly add 120 million km to the voyage. That will just about double the time! About 4 days travel! After being in J-Space for 7 days.

Which can eat up fuel and make you late for appointments--or just put you behind schedule and cost you money that way (as it will take you longer to find more cargo and passengers for elsewhere).

 

[Supplement Four]

Another neat thing is the communications repeater over one of the continents, that helps with communications deep in-system.

 

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The Navigation roll...why is that? The text doesn't say.

Should that be a standard roll for any ship entering any system? Or, is it there because its specific to the Tarsus system?

Maybe the Tarsus system has a lot of masking going on. Jumping in there is tricky, thus the roll. Those with Nav-1 and Nav-2 have a small chance of adding time to the journey. Nav-3 experts do not have to make the roll as they automatically succeed.

 

[boomslang]

The Navigation roll...why is that? The text doesn't say.

Should that be a standard roll for any ship entering any system? Or, is it there because its specific to the Tarsus system?

Maybe the Tarsus system has a lot of masking going on. Jumping in there is tricky, thus the roll. Those with Nav-1 and Nav-2 have a small chance of adding time to the journey. Nav-3 experts do not have to make the roll as they automatically succeed.

That was always my thinking; breakout accuracy is pretty much the default application of Nav skill IMTU, system-specific Jump Masking considerations notwithstanding.