Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range Phil Pugliese 25 Jul 2015 14:50 UTC

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I agree.

I believe that *since* it hasn't happened in all that time, it's pretty safe to assume that it effectively *can't* happen?

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On Fri, 7/24/15, Craig Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Captain, the USS AMANA is in radar range
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Friday, July 24, 2015, 9:13 PM

 Yes,
 it's hard (but not *very* hard) to imagine a (sane) game
 where the PCs do this. The question is why, in a universe
 manifestly sprinkled with crazy terrorist organizations and
 lone gunmen to an extent similar to our own, not to mention
 occasional wars between high-tech adversaries, this
 hasn't happened to most hi-pop worlds over the course of
 millennia.
 On Fri,
 Jul 24, 2015 at 9:04 PM, John Groth <xxxxxx@cox.net>
 wrote:
 Kurt
 Feltenberger wrote:

 On 7/24/2015 11:42 PM, Christopher Hilton wrote:

 I don't disagree, I do the same thing. I'm assuming
 that this thread

 is about some peoples need to neuter the tech in Traveller
 so the

 players can't do something really anti-social like run a
 Type S to

 0.2c and then smack it into a world, or, to steal from
 Niven, start a

 fusion drive a tens of meters over an some sophant's
 inhabited home

 and hover for a few minutes. Is that the case?

 If it should be possible, then it should be possible.  If
 the PCs want

 to waste a world with a Type-S, and there's nothing in
 the rules that

 say it can't be done, then it should be possible.  The
 very calculation

 used to determine travel times pretty much codifies that
 this *can* be

 done as there doesn't appear to be an upper limit on
 potential velocity.

 The key question is, why *should* a group of PCs want to
 destroy a world?  Unless you're running a Pocket
 Empires campaign, there's little incentive for most PC
 groups to lay waste to worlds.

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