Thank you very much for providing the source referencing jump torpedoes, I have not reached the adventure source books in digging my CT collection.
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Yes & yes.
From what I've read or been texted, originally there were no explicit restrictions upon ship size.
CT Adv4 had the 'Leviathan' exploration vessel equipped with J-torps &, I've been informed, MM, himself, even refereed some sessions of that adventure, which I believe was the first official (GDW) one to be authored by an 'outside' source.
But it wasn't too much later that the explicit 100dt size plus pilot required rules appeared.
So, instead of a J-torp you'd have to carry 100dt jump-only capsules w/ a person inside, which is the same as....
(but you *could* make it J6, which , according to the TNS, the 3I intended to do to at least some of it's Xboats just before the 5th Frontier War broke out)
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Date: Saturday, February 13, 2016, 11:31 PM
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Because Marc says so. No other reason given, AFAIK.
And apparently J-Torps have been a major controversy.
From: Greg Chalik
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[TML]Tracking spaceships in Jump TU, was: Instant city
I'm
curious. Exactly why can't Jump drives be
miniaturised?
And, if they
can be, to what scale?
The reason is,
it would be an automated procedure to release a message pod
with a miniature Jump drive that would replicate in reverse
the Jump the ship just made, i.e. returning to the
ship's point-of-origin to transmit "All OK"
Failure for
such a pod to materialise would sound alarm immediatelly.
Greg
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