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John Desmarais
Jul 12th, '05, 12:16 PM
Reading through the chapter on starships and I came across somethign about Jump Drives that I want to make sure I'm reading the power modifiers correctly (I may very well be reading it correctly, but failing my "dredge up old Traveller data that I never really knew well in thr first place" roll. I'll use Jump 1 Drive as an example:

Jump 1 Drive: Teleportation 3”, MegaScale (1” = 1 lightyear;
+3 1/2) (27 Active Points); Extra Time (1 Hour, -3), 1
Charge which Recovers every 1 Week (-2 1/2), OIF Bulky (-1),
Side Effects (Side Effect affects both character and recipient
of Power’s benefits; can cause misjump or damage to ship
on failed skill roll; -3/4), Requires A Skill Roll (-1/2), Crew-
Served (2 crew; -1/4), Difficult to Operate (-1/4)
With this drive, a ship can make one jump up to 3 lightyears, then it must wait a a week before jumping again? Is this correct?
ChaosDrgn
Jul 12th, '05, 12:26 PM
That's how it reads to me.
Eodin
Jul 12th, '05, 01:38 PM
That's one of the things we may change in 1.0 as to the writeup... it takes one week to make the jump. So you initiate the jump ( 1hour) which takes 1 week to arrive (1ch for 1 week), and when you come out of the jump you could jump again if you have enough fuel.
John Desmarais
Jul 12th, '05, 03:50 PM
That's one of the things we may change in 1.0 as to the writeup... it takes one week to make the jump. So you initiate the jump ( 1hour) which takes 1 week to arrive (1ch for 1 week), and when you come out of the jump you could jump again if you have enough fuel.

Ah, I see (said the blind man). I probably would have taken a slightly different approach:


Jump 1 Drive: Teleportation 3”, MegaScale (1” = 1 lightyear;
+3 1/2) (27 Active Points); Extra Time (1 Hour, -3), Gradual
Effect (1 Week, -2), OIF Bulky (-1), Side Effects (Side Effect
affects both character and recipient of Power’s benefits; can
cause misjump or damage to ship on failed skill roll; -3/4),
Requires A Skill Roll (-1/2), Crew-Served (2 crew; -1/4),
Difficult to Operate (-1/4)
shadowcat1313
Jul 12th, '05, 04:28 PM
each jump number is equal to 1 parsec or 3.2 LY
taxboy4
Jul 12th, '05, 11:54 PM
each jump number is equal to 1 parsec or 3.2 LY

So JUmp 6 is only 20 Light Years...hmmm will take an awefully long time to get anywhere?
Eodin
Jul 13th, '05, 07:42 AM
That's one of the core concepts of the Traveller universe... it would take a year to travel from the core to the outer worlds in a Jump5 or Jump6 capable ship.