Large passenger liners, <should> carry a J-6 couriour in case they misjump. It is a marketing pitch to the high passenger trade. "If we misjump, we have sufficient life support and a J-6 messenger ship that can get to the nearest world and contract for a rescue expedition" The racket is that the couriour has 1 extra bunk, which is auctioned off to the highest bidder.Lol, whut?
That sounds like a racket just waiting to happen ...
The deciding factor is whether it's technically easier to build super- or turbo-chargers or to synthesize advanced battery chemistries (beyond lead-acid, that is) if you don't have to re-discover those chemistries from scratch.
The question is whether you could build it, not whether you could invent it without knowing how it's done in the first place.Spoiler alert ... you need (relatively speaking) "high tech" to do that with an internal combustion engine. What you're talking about isn't exactly TL=5 stuff.
At least in CT, properly-maintained and fully-manned ships jumping from outside 100D with refinery fuel cannot misjump, rules-as-written.Large passenger liners, <should> carry a J-6 couriour in case they misjump. It is a marketing pitch to the high passenger trade. "If we misjump, we have sufficient life support and a J-6 messenger ship that can get to the nearest world and contract for a rescue expedition" The racket is that the couriour has 1 extra bunk, which is auctioned off to the highest bidder.
Depending on how you do it, electric vehicle engineering can be a form of Air Independent Propulsion (AIP), unlike chemical combustion for heat power sources.
That's a nice idea you've got there.
Different locations feature different (stellar) environments, which then call for different kinds of ships with different capabilities when self-recovery becomes an important factor.
The moral of the story being ... additional fuel to double jump with (either via drop tanks or by demountable tanks or collapsible tanks) is a far more (economically) viable solution to the problem than paying for another set of jump drives (J6 no less!) and hauling those (expensive!) drives around everywhere you go, "just in case" you might need them.
YES.
That depends. A 1,000 ton ship carrying a 200 ton J6 courier…yeah bad investment. But a 50,000 ton ship carrying that is probably a good idea (especially if you go for say a 100 ton Jump4…whose crew doubles as regular ship crew unless needed)Depending on how you do it, electric vehicle engineering can be a form of Air Independent Propulsion (AIP), unlike chemical combustion for heat power sources.
That's a nice idea you've got there.
How are you going to pay for it?
Not to put too fine a point on the issue, but J6 capability IS NOT CHEAP.
To give you an example, LBB S9, p20 features a 400 ton TL=15 Fleet Courier (armed) with J6/2G capability, requires a crew of 5 (pilot/navigator, engineer/engineer, medic, chief gunner/gunner, gunner/gunner), whose salaries are NOT CHEAP(!), and costs MCr254.54424 to construct at a TL=15 shipyard that has the class in volume production.
You're proposing to carry something like THIS around as deadweight tonnage ... just in case you might someday need it?
I'm sorry, but investing in fuel purification plants, a regular schedule of routine annual overhaul maintenance and proper procedures of only jumping from 100D+ from the nearest gravity well will substantially mitigate the risk of misjumps at a FAR LOWER COST than carting around a "just in case" J6 courier (and crew!) with you, everywhere you go.
Different locations feature different (stellar) environments, which then call for different kinds of ships with different capabilities when self-recovery becomes an important factor.
Who knew?
The moral of the story being ... additional fuel to double jump with (either via drop tanks or by demountable tanks or collapsible tanks) is a far more (economically) viable solution to the problem than paying for another set of jump drives (J6 no less!) and hauling those (expensive!) drives around everywhere you go, "just in case" you might need them.
I don't know about you, but if that kind of misjump mishap is "too possible for comfort" ... I would be investing in double jump capability via fuel options, rather than trying to buy a whole other starship to cart around with me everywhere "just in case" it might be needed. Being able to self-recover (thanks to fuel options) is going to be a LOT cheaper and easier to sustain than any kind of TL=15 J6 "hyper tech" that spends most of its time on standby, not doing anything (because nothing went wrong).
Well in cannon once a jump drive misjumps there is a very high chance that when a second jump is attempted after repairs done out of the ship's resourses is made, there is at least a +1 on another misjump. At least one ship I saw in the early years had both a J-3 drive and a J-2 drive, perhaps designed before jump governors, but it was touted as an exploratory trader. My concept here is for a retired or surplus Navy J-6 courior to be fitted instead of a lighter. Mind you this is for a 100,000+ ton passenger liner servicing <HI> class worlds. The courior is fuelled and powered down to standby with one watch person standing by. Crew will be placed on board once it is determined that rescue is needed, this crew come from the host's complement. How to pay for it? If I was one of the stranded passengers and a ride on the couriour was being auctioned, my bid would be to commit the resources of Gliss Ten to get ships and fuel out here to rescue the rest of the people.Depending on how you do it, electric vehicle engineering can be a form of Air Independent Propulsion (AIP), unlike chemical combustion for heat power sources.
That's a nice idea you've got there.
How are you going to pay for it?
Not to put too fine a point on the issue, but J6 capability IS NOT CHEAP.
To give you an example, LBB S9, p20 features a 400 ton TL=15 Fleet Courier (armed) with J6/2G capability, requires a crew of 5 (pilot/navigator, engineer/engineer, medic, chief gunner/gunner, gunner/gunner), whose salaries are NOT CHEAP(!), and costs MCr254.54424 to construct at a TL=15 shipyard that has the class in volume production.
You're proposing to carry something like THIS around as deadweight tonnage ... just in case you might someday need it?
I'm sorry, but investing in fuel purification plants, a regular schedule of routine annual overhaul maintenance and proper procedures of only jumping from 100D+ from the nearest gravity well will substantially mitigate the risk of misjumps at a FAR LOWER COST than carting around a "just in case" J6 courier (and crew!) with you, everywhere you go.
Different locations feature different (stellar) environments, which then call for different kinds of ships with different capabilities when self-recovery becomes an important factor.
Who knew?
The moral of the story being ... additional fuel to double jump with (either via drop tanks or by demountable tanks or collapsible tanks) is a far more (economically) viable solution to the problem than paying for another set of jump drives (J6 no less!) and hauling those (expensive!) drives around everywhere you go, "just in case" you might need them.
I don't know about you, but if that kind of misjump mishap is "too possible for comfort" ... I would be investing in double jump capability via fuel options, rather than trying to buy a whole other starship to cart around with me everywhere "just in case" it might be needed. Being able to self-recover (thanks to fuel options) is going to be a LOT cheaper and easier to sustain than any kind of TL=15 J6 "hyper tech" that spends most of its time on standby, not doing anything (because nothing went wrong).
That was the Leviathan in the CT Adventure A04 which was designed when governors existed. The J2 drive is a back-up for if the J3 drive is out of action.
Surprisingly, “doozy” doesn’t have an entry in the Oxford English Dictionary, but Wiktionary gives some pointers.
After reading an early account of Europeans visiting the Tibetan Plateau, I discovered that much of the Plateau, including the Everest Base Camp, qualifies as Atmo 5, and the summit of Everest is Atmo 3.
