Hello all,

After kaladorn's catch on wording on how armor works in my post latest Re: [TML] MT Referee's Manual Craft Design questions and other comments update the section on "The black globe" caught my eye.

CT indicates that energy absorb by a black globe is diverted into capacitors that may be part of the jump drive or as stand alone units. In CT LBB 5 HG 2 p. 31 the mass (volume?) of jump drive capacitors is equal to .5% of the ship's mass (volume?), per jump number and that 1 ton of capacitors can absorb 36 EP.

Until now I have not thought about how much energy is used to transit into jump space. Would the 36 EP be the power needed to make a jump?

MT Referee's Manual Starship Combat pp. 95-96 also states that a black globe diverts absorbed energy to a ship's energy sinks (storage capacitors). Each kiloliter of energy sink will 650 Mw of raw, level energy. A jump drive's energy sink volume in kl = Ship Volume in kl x Jump Number x 0.005.

Page 96 indicates that "If a ships absorbs enough energy to make a jump and is supplied with sufficient fuel, in may jump at the end of the turn."

From the details in MT it appears that the energy needed to make a jump is 650 Mw x kl of energy sink.

I'm guessing I have added more conundrums to the list. I also apology for breaking my word about no more posts to the topic thread.

Tom Rux