The tender that was my last at sea duty station did a refueling evolution and a resupply. The refueling evolution required both ships to steam relatively close to each other maintaining speed, course, and separation while taking on the fuel. The resupply consisted of having the Navy's version of the Chinook helicopter fly between the supply ship and tender. In both cases they are routine evolutions, however they are still hazardous considering that the lines used to pass the fuel hoses could break and the released tension sending the ends flying.
Tying up and pulling away for a pier is routine again because the lines could fail is hazardous.
In-flight refueling is routine to many military pilots but again is also hazardous when things go wrong.
My guess is the Referee judged skimming to be similar to in-flight refueling and applied the appropriate numbers. I was trying and apparently did not succeed in doing was to show that any game action, including a miss-jump, can end a game.
Thank you for the reply.
From: "Phil Pugliese (via tml list)" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
To: "TML" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 3:33:46 PM
Subject: GM discretion; wasRe: [TML]Tracking spaceships inJump TU, was: Instantcity
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" In one Traveller session I in and have notes for the
ship was skimming for fuel which is an undertaking of a
hazardous nature in my opinion. The notes have the failure
criteria as 7+ without any modifiers we rolled an 8 adding
and subtracting modifiers put the final total a 10. The ship
was lost with all hands."
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Considering how often the IN performs fuel skimming (just look at how many IN ships are equipped for it)
I, as GM, have considered it as a base 'routine' operation subject, of course, to modifiers.
However, I wasn't at your session so I'm not privy to what may have influenced the decision to classify that skimming op as 'hazardous'
In any case, this illustrates how much a GM's discretionary powers can influence the course of events.
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