A better answer, if you have a real gripe about BG's driving jump (not a big thing to me): 

"The black globe dumps energy in an unpredictable manner (the aggregate amount is predictable, the individual pulses are not) and thus the jump engine is disconnected from the hull net while the BG dumps accumulated energy. Without the action of the jump drive, the hull net basically is just a big radiator. When the jump drive is to be energized, such BG energy shunting must cease so the Jump drive can do its thing and the hull grid can be energized as part of that."

On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 6:10 PM Thomas RUX <xxxxxx@comcast.net> wrote:
Hello again Phil,
On 10/09/2020 12:08 PM Phil Pugliese - philpugliese at yahoo.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

However, they both work the same way;

Incoming energy is absorbed & transferred to some sort of storage.
The accumulator is acting as a power plant that the computer is controlling  to charge one of the jump drives. The black globe is siphoning the energy and dumping it to the capacitors that can be in the jump drive or maybe stand alone units.
Apparently, when energy from the BG comes into the capacitors whose primary purpose is to energize the J-drive, they 'magically' lose that ability!
When the jump drive is being energized for a jump the computer is controlling the power plants output used to charge the capacitors. When the BG is functioning the energy being diverted to the capacitors in a jump drive is still under computer control but not being used to make a calculated jump.
I wonder if MM realized that, if his rule is followed, any ship using a black globe would effectively have it's J-drive disabled until the (contaminated?) BG energy was discharged?
I suspect, Probably Not.
Considering Marc Miller was publishing other games I rather doubt he and his staff could follow up on every rule. Even if he and his staff did manage to follow up, they gave the fans the ability to change rules that don't fit their Traveller game. I'm wondering how many rules fans have modified affect something.

If one doesn't like the rule then change it to fit the game.

Tom Rux

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