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Originally Posted by Anaraxes
Traveller grav tech doesn't seem to be defined as the sort that merely cancels out local gravity (even if they do sometimes use the word "contragrav", and do some handwaving as to why Air/Rafts have to struggle to reach orbit). It's a reactionless thruster, like a small version of the M-drives that push starships around, a jetpack except that it's high tech grav magic instead of a reaction engine. So, they can push you around without any local gravity to "react" against, even out in space.
A true contragrav would stop operating if you turned off the ship's gravity. It wouldn't be able to do anything, because the was no local gravity to fight. If you imagine Traveller grav tech as this sort, then they'd be useless versus the "turn off gravity and accelerate at 6G with the M-drive so that you're falling down a long corridor at 6G" attack. There's no gravity anywhere in that scenario.
That depends entirely on how common this sort of ship defense is. Every single Traveller group I've ever met has thought of the idea, so it's something of a stretch to think all boarding forces (including the Imperial Marines and Navy where so many got their training) would never have had the possibility cross their mind and would be unprepared for such a situation. It's a game, so you're welcome to pretend that the characters are innovative tactical geniuses so they can spring their trap, or have it sprung on them, because the villains are innovative tactical geniuses. It's not as though the "idiot ball" weren't so popular as to have its own trope entry. After all, to properly depict a super-genius plot, you'd have to be one...
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See, the thing is, a grav belt as listed in all the equipment lists, has nothing about being able to counter rapidly changing grav fields, work upside down, or any of that stuff. So, as I said earlier, you're not talking about a normal off-the-shelf device, but a specialist one. Yes, the Imperial Marines probably have them, but the vast majority of people won't.