On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 8:15 AM Ewan <xxxxxx@quibell.org.uk> wrote:

Just read through this thread.

As far as I recall (and you would have to trawl the archives) the “standard” jump drives in book 2 are the most efficient drives you can get in CT.

Which suggests, and what I believe the consensus of the list was, that they are all built at the best tech level they can be (TL15), and then shipped to various shipyards as “standard” drives you can just buy “off the shelf”.

My copy of the Starter Traveller pdf (purchased from DriveThruRPG and apparently a manual scan of the original pages . . . to judge by the slightly-off-kilter aspect of each page . . .) only mentions TL availability restrictions for ship computer Models. Nothing else on the ship construction charts and tables has a TL entry. So I tend to agree with the above assessment, that is that drives, power plants and all other major components are built at TL 15 and shipped out to Class A and B starports for assembly into vessels.

In canon, anyway.

IMTU, standard designs use CTL 12 components, since that's the average TL IMTU. Of course, YMMV.

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