On 12Jun2020 0848, Vareck Bostrom wrote:
> In these cases, the assumptions are that regular commercial traffic is
> always inbound and outbound from the system and incoming ships will,
> as part of human nature, exchange interesting news with outbound ships
> ("Did you hear that Strephon was assassinated?") and the density of
> J-2 shipping is always high enough that the turnaround is effectively
> instant, or at least as fast as the xboat turn around is.
>
> I have modeled in the past adding in misjumps to information
> propagation. Misjumps are common enough and occasionally end up in 36
> parsec jumps that if it were a rule that all ships must carry
> important mail in digital form on the chance that they might get a
> lucky misjump that greatly outpaces even a secret J-6 network makes it
> worth doing.
In CT there was no chance of a misjump at all unless you were provoking
one (by jumping in the well, using dodgy fuel, or skimping on
maintenance). Also, the chance of getting that 36-parsec misjump is very
low - roll 1d6 for the number of dice to roll, then roll that many D6s
for distance. 36-parsecs requires getting a 6 on 7 D6s - a 1 in 279936
chance.

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