Afternoon PDT C. Berry,

Per MT Starship Operator's Manual Vol. I p. 3 when over-driving the engineer has to monitor the drive status with increasing attention "to make sure no overloads develop or warning lights appear."

"The more pronounced the overdrive, the closer the engineer must monitor the drive status. The plates nay be overdriven by up to 40% for extended periods of time (days) with few harmful effects if the overage is done skillfully."

UTP 1: Monitoring the MD being over-driven up to 40% of normal rating

Routine or Difficult, Engineering, Edu, days over-driven, Uncertain

UTP 2: Lateral take-off/landing over-driving MD by 400%

Formidable task; Engineering/M-Drive, EDU, <5 minutes in over-drive, Hazardous

I hope my Universal Task Profile attempt is on the right track for the two examples in MT Starship Operator's Manual Vol. I.

In UTP 1 the result of something happening would be a minor problem easily repaired that does not hamper the maneuver drive's operation.

In UTP 2 the most extreme result is the maneuver drive blows up destroying the ship.

In CT the Referee will have to figure out what happens or even to allow over-driving into the game.

Tom Rux

From: "C. Berry" <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
To: "TML" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2017 10:53:24 AM
Subject: Re: [TML] 1G ship vs Size 8 world.

The "overdrive" option opens up a larger can of worms, in my experience. If they can double the M-drive rating for liftoff, any player worthy of the name will then try to do so in combat. And so forth.

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Grimmund <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 2:47 PM, C. Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
To my way of thinking, this is what CG is specifically intended to solve. CG provides no thrust as such, but it cancels out gravitational attraction, up to some limit higher than would be encountered on habitable planets. Thus you just turn on the CG, thereby becoming weightless, point the nose at the sky, and accelerate using your maneuver drive.

This was pretty much my assumption, once I thought about it.

Enough lift modules built in and decentralized around the hull to enable the thrusters to get the ship to orbit. Details were never particularly necessary from a narrative standpoint.

Or, you know, "1 G" is a nominal "cruise" rating, with one decimal place of accuracy, and represents maybe 75-80% of full rated performance, with peak output maybe 200% of full or "cruise" performance for up to an hour, to allow for takeoff and landing maneuvers on higher-G worlds.

Dan

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