[Spaceship] Query: Traveller Jump Sled Performance

DaltonS · 02-04-2022, 12:37 PM

I based this concept on "System Defense Boat Jump Shuttles" (T:S page 83) which described the combination as 700 dtons and said "Note that, when empty, the jump shuttle behaves as a ship of 300 tons (its actual hull size), which improves its sAccel, jump number, and fuel endurance." The "modular section" is actually a separate hull which is detached from the drive section upon arrival thus reducing the ship's mass by 2/3rds. How this would affect it's volume I don't know but in RPK's "GURPS Spaceships In Traveller" rules this isn't an issue.

Dalton “it's a Traveller vs GURPS thing” Spence

02-04-2022, 12:37 PM	#7
DaltonS Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Hamilton, Ont. CANADA	Re: [Spaceship] Query: Traveller Jump Sled Performance I based this concept on "System Defense Boat Jump Shuttles" (T:S page 83) which described the combination as 700 dtons and said "Note that, when empty, the jump shuttle behaves as a ship of 300 tons (its actual hull size), which improves its sAccel, jump number, and fuel endurance." The "modular section" is actually a separate hull which is detached from the drive section upon arrival thus reducing the ship's mass by 2/3rds. How this would affect it's volume I don't know but in RPK's "*GURPS Spaceships* In Traveller" rules this isn't an issue. Dalton “it's a Traveller* vs GURPS thing”* Spence