Hello Shadow,

CT Supplement 9 p. 20 Fleet Courier TL-15 J6.

Tom Rux

> On April 14, 2020 at 6:13 PM "shadow at shadowgard.com (via tml list)" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 14 Apr 2020 at 11:07, Kenneth Barns wrote:
>
> > With speed of communication being limited to speed of travel, it is
> > highly unlikely that the Traveller Universe would be able to implement
> > any meaningful increase in border protection in response to a
> > pandemic.  Which means we either face a full biohazard assessment and
> > quarantine for every traveller every time they pass through a starport
> > (where that is possible), or no pandemic border security at all.
>
> Well, it helps that there's more than one speed of travel. Getting
> the word ahead of a ship travelling at J1 or J2 is fairly easy.
>
> A J3 ship makes things a lot harder. But even there the X-boat
> network will eventually get ahead of things.
>
> J4 ships. That's a problem. fortunately, those are more likely to be
> serving "more advanced" worlds. And there's still the "there's no
> such thing" J6 message network the Imperium doesn't talk about.
>
> J5 or J6? Fortunately those are *rare*
>
> But yeah, realistically, most planets would do like we did around
> 1900. There'd be a health check at the port of entry. And if you were
> lower social class, you'dprobably spend some time in quarantine just
> in case.
>
> Y'know, that might be another reason why starports have an extrality
> line. And checkpoints for entering/leaving. Means you've got a list
> of possible vectors. Also means that while you can't do much about
> any ships that leave before the disease is noticed, you *can* track
> folks who were in the port at the right time and get them isolated
> (if it was brought in on a ship), or lock down the port and isolate
> folks who've been outside.
>
> Won't be anywhere * near* perfect, but it'd let you get *some*
> control on things.
>
> Also, hopefully you can send out ships with warning messages to the
> ports that possibly infectd ships were going to.
>
> Ideally, ones that can jump there and back without refueling. But
> even if they haved to refuel at the far end, that can be done with
> minimal risk. So they jump back to their starting point and either
> stay aboard to finish quarantine, or go into quarantine downside.
>
> Best of all is if you have ships that can jump beyond those
> destination systems to get word ahead of the possible plague carrier.
>
>
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> Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
> shadow at shadowgard dot com
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