-------------------------------------------- On Sat, 5/3/14, Rob O'Connor <xxxxxx@ozemail.com.au> wrote: Subject: Re: [TML]Nukes... To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com Date: Saturday, May 3, 2014, 2:47 AM Kurt Feltenberger wrote: > Yeah...a magazine hit would not be good... Why? What's there to blow up? At Traveller tech levels ~12-13, you're talking pure fusion weapons ignited by high intensity laser or particle beams, or maybe even gravitic implosion. The fusion fuel (most likely lithium hydride) doesn't have to be radioactive - proton-proton fusion seems to be what Traveller fusion reactors do. The missiles are likely to be propelled by gravitics, or at worst a fusion thruster like HePLAR. Magazine hits aren't going to cause explosions because there are no conventional explosives there, or fissiles that could be induced by stray neutrons. The fusion fuel isn't going to fuse if it is nuked for lack of confinement. Rob O'Connor ---------------------------------------------------------- As I recall, in CT, the universal use of nuke dampers made 'coventional' missles more effective than 'nuclear' ones, at least in CT-HG, anyway. A hit on a magazine full of them could cause some big problems. CT-HG also incl a 'magazine explosion' in it's critical hit table, I believe...
