On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 1:18 AM, Kelly St. Clair <xxxxxx@efn.org> wrote:

On 12/20/2017 10:09 PM, Richard Aiken wrote:

Basically, I read those rules as a mechanism to force ships to take about a week to travel from Point A to Point B, after which they had to hang around at Point B long enough to potentially get involved in an adventure.
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Richard Aiken

In short, same as regular jump drive from the OTU.
I'm not sure whether to be impressed or dismayed at how little the "meta" underpinnings changed between games and/or settings.

For me, it was "impressed" . . . until I noticed that ALL the sample ships had the same endurance (and thus the same "capacitor dump" requirement), at which point it became "depressed."

Still, I really shouldn't be surprised. Isn't one of the basic writing rules, "Write what you know."? :P

Richard Aiken

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