What TL 15 things do the imperium have ?
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This depends on what date you're talking about. I shall assume you're thinking about Milieu 1000. According to canon the Imperium reaches TL 15 at this time. Unfortunately, nowhere in canon is it defined just what it actually means when an interstellar society reaches a given TL. Is it when any world belonging to it produces one TL X prototype? Is it when at least one important world reaches a point where most of its citizens routinely employ TL X items in their daily life?
Personally I favor the interpretation that it's when jump ships of that TL begin being produced in quantity. (Of course, that definition won't work for TL 16 in the OTU, but I can live with that
So I'd say Capital itself certainly would be TL 15 at this point and that a few jump-6 ships are entering the navy. Propably small ships like jump-6 couriers.
Hans
IMTU
a meson canon - Fires a collection of particles that they convert into an unstable, low interactive state as they fire it.
This collection is then accelerated at the target - Given it isn;t interacting much with anything (ie think Neutrinos) they shouldn't be observable.
When they get to the "target" decay point (ie after x milliseconds) then the particles decay into something that is much more interactive.
From the Target's point of view, a collection of high energy particles just arrive in the middle of their structure with a lot of radiation, heat and other decay products.
End result - Meson weaponry ignores armour etc - finds it hard to hit ships that have "gaps" (ie a needle - if you treat it as a sphere - 90% of hits will miss).
There doesn;t need to be a line of sight between firer and victim (although you do need a good sensor feed).
Some canon comments - I am fairly sure that buried meson emlacements are canon - ie a meson canon under 300m of rock - it's practically immune to everything but other meson canons and lose of sensors.
Visually - I like the image of the meson "pulse" leaving the canon, heading towards the target and "fading" from the universe. The re-entering the universe inside the target (still with momentum as well as decay bi-products).
I don;t know how much of the above is canon- but I like the imagery
a meson canon - Fires a collection of particles that they convert into an unstable, low interactive state as they fire it.
This collection is then accelerated at the target - Given it isn;t interacting much with anything (ie think Neutrinos) they shouldn't be observable.
When they get to the "target" decay point (ie after x milliseconds) then the particles decay into something that is much more interactive.
From the Target's point of view, a collection of high energy particles just arrive in the middle of their structure with a lot of radiation, heat and other decay products.
End result - Meson weaponry ignores armour etc - finds it hard to hit ships that have "gaps" (ie a needle - if you treat it as a sphere - 90% of hits will miss).
There doesn;t need to be a line of sight between firer and victim (although you do need a good sensor feed).
Some canon comments - I am fairly sure that buried meson emlacements are canon - ie a meson canon under 300m of rock - it's practically immune to everything but other meson canons and lose of sensors.
Visually - I like the image of the meson "pulse" leaving the canon, heading towards the target and "fading" from the universe. The re-entering the universe inside the target (still with momentum as well as decay bi-products).
I don;t know how much of the above is canon- but I like the imagery
Depends
IMTU - I like the idea of plasma/fusion weapons firing a "Gob" of high energy plasma (Fusion plasma being something that is significantly hotter than "normal" plasma). So it looks like a "blaster" pulse rather than a laser.
Particle Accelerators - I like burst stream Particle accelerators firing a stream of high energy particles. When fired through a perfect vaccuum it should be invisible, however interstellar vaccuum contains enough atoms to scatter a miniscule portion of it - so you end up with a beam of scintilating light holding fairly stead on a target thousands of km away. I give my Particle accelrators "Capacitors" so that it fires in "pulses" with time to recharge between them. The Light will be mostly hydrogen emmission spectrum (harsh white) however occassionally specs emmmited from whatever particle you are accelerating.
I allow experienced weapons techs with decent sensors to be able to identify the type/style/source of Particle beams (ie we are being shot at by someone with vilani mil-spec particles beams).
All the above is probably very non-canon, but it's how I use the weapons in my stories.
IMTU - I like the idea of plasma/fusion weapons firing a "Gob" of high energy plasma (Fusion plasma being something that is significantly hotter than "normal" plasma). So it looks like a "blaster" pulse rather than a laser.
Particle Accelerators - I like burst stream Particle accelerators firing a stream of high energy particles. When fired through a perfect vaccuum it should be invisible, however interstellar vaccuum contains enough atoms to scatter a miniscule portion of it - so you end up with a beam of scintilating light holding fairly stead on a target thousands of km away. I give my Particle accelrators "Capacitors" so that it fires in "pulses" with time to recharge between them. The Light will be mostly hydrogen emmission spectrum (harsh white) however occassionally specs emmmited from whatever particle you are accelerating.
I allow experienced weapons techs with decent sensors to be able to identify the type/style/source of Particle beams (ie we are being shot at by someone with vilani mil-spec particles beams).
All the above is probably very non-canon, but it's how I use the weapons in my stories.
The UPP of both Vilani and Solomoni worlds has them both at TL 13 in the last digit of UPP is D and A equals 10 and D must then equal 13 any guesses how the 2 main worlds in Traveller for Humaniti have a full TL lower then the imperium whichs TL is 14 verging on 15 ?
P.S on a further note those minor upstarts of Humaniti the Luriani are TL 14
P.S on a further note those minor upstarts of Humaniti the Luriani are TL 14
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