On Friday, October 9, 2020, 03:10:52 PM MST, 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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