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  1. drakensis

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Thank you for writing what you have so far and I look forward to seeing what you do next.
  2. drakensis

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    I assumed the bit in this story about HPGs signalling everywhere in range was just how ComStar operated their HPGs, sequentially contacting all their neighbouring stations in turn, rather than them transmitting to all at once, which - as you say - isn't how they work. HPGs are point to point...
  3. drakensis

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    And with a 50 light year range for HPGs, it's likely the current Confederacy is entirely within reach of transmissions from Terra.
  4. drakensis

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Which suggests that the time and attention of the local regional governor is mostly focused on administering more worlds than the Terran Confederacy has in total, so them only once having the time and resources (and motivation) to add to that makes sense. He was effectively using a quiet moment...
  5. drakensis

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    My own suspicion of what would be done with a K-F Drive at this point is to look for some star systems that aren't normally accessible by Jump-2 drives and settle one or more as a 'fallback' location where Terran culture and population can survive if the worst comes to the worst. This would...
  6. drakensis

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    I'd have to agree with this. One of my earliest memories of what the Cold War meant was a TV advert with a ticking timer saying that by the time the timer ran out World War III could be over. Not began, over. After a while, you just got used to it. I was a child, there was nothing I could do...
  7. drakensis

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    Oh one more thing. I'm not sure if anyone brought this up yet. IIRC, Traveller jump drives have to go star to star. You can't jump to deep space. If I'm correct about this, then a K-F Drive transforms the strategic geography of the galaxy because it can jump to deep space, recharge (using...
  8. drakensis

    Forging Ahead (GURPS Interstellar Wars/Celestial Forge)

    I wrote that perk, and yes it does include all the required knowledge to get from nothing to building jumpships, HPGs, clantech... all of it. Things that you might want to consider cliffc999 1. Compact jumpcores (~46% of ship mass compared to 95%) are probably easier to build than the...
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