On 2017-09-27 13:53, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 03:18:07AM +0000, Tim wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 11:00:43PM -0400, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
>>> Under normal circumstances, a 1G ship can't take off from a size 8 or
>>> greater world. What do people do in their campaigns to deal with this?
>>
>> Use contragrav, which is well-established Traveller technology.
>>
>
> I'm more concerned with CT/MT. I'll probably never grow out of
> that. CG is described in much more detail in TNE than it is in
> CT/MT. I'll read the Striker rules again. They go into more
> detail. But the only CT/MT contragrav referrence that I saw outside of
> Striker briefly touched on the idea that an Air/Raft could reach orbital
> height in a throw away comment that never talked about acheiving
> orbital velocity.

In CT/MT antigrav is simply treated as something that provides thrust,
with some vaguely defined altitude restrictions (the air/raft comment
being one of those vague restrictions).

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