saulweaver
SOC-8
Apparently NASA and friends can detect planets that are 5,000 or more light years away and can detect planetary atmospheres with the Hubble that are 150 ly away. I have looked at CT (DGP's Grand Survey) and TNE, and they both seem to indicate that the maximum distance at which a a gas giant can be detected is one or two steenking parsecs.
While exploring the frontier, it would be nice to be able to determine if there are gas giants in the system before going there, or if there is some other fuel source (water, belt ice, etc.)
Are Traveller sensors just hopelessly mired in the 1970s, or are there some sensor rules that I am overlooking? What would be a "realistic" (in the Traveller sense) range to detect gas giants and other fuel sources?
While exploring the frontier, it would be nice to be able to determine if there are gas giants in the system before going there, or if there is some other fuel source (water, belt ice, etc.)
Are Traveller sensors just hopelessly mired in the 1970s, or are there some sensor rules that I am overlooking? What would be a "realistic" (in the Traveller sense) range to detect gas giants and other fuel sources?