Alternative GURPS TRAVELLER (or path not taken)

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by SteveS

Il). Tuning a charged particle beam would include guessing thetotal density of armor so the peak lands in the soft spot.

Charged particle "beams" in vacuum would end up being cones rather than beams as the like charges repelled each other and the beam dispersed rapidly.

The non-canon technobabble that would make meson beams work the way they are supposed to is probably Jump technology. Shoot a particle beam into Jump space and then have it come out in one spot as a chaotic burst of undifferentiad mesons. <shrug> Too different from canon for most grognards.