Hi Rupert,

Mt Referee's Manual p. 58 "Jump Drive: ...Jump drives are themselves a special high-yield power plant..".

Tom Rux

> On 06/24/2020 4:44 PM Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 25Jun2020 0920, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
> > That's interesting that MT says there is an energy *and* fuel
> > requirement, as if the fuel requirement wasn't what provided the
> > energy requirement... that's a bit different.
> High Guard agrees - the need for power from the ship's main reactor has
> been around for a long time.
>
> TNE does not - all you need there is the fuel, as FF&S (p42) states:
> "Jump drives require fuel, displacement mass, and coolant, all of which
> are collectively called jump fuel (liquid hydrogen being used for all
> three functions)."
>
> Interestingly, it says some of the fuel is 'displacement mass' but does
> not say what is displaced, when, or how. As with earlier versions, the
> way drop tanks work tell us all the fuel needs to be available at or
> shortly before jump initiation, and that it's not stored inside the ship.
>
> >
> > I think if they are saying you need jump number x 0.005 of ship's hull
> > (giving you a dTonnage for the system) and that each system holds 36
> > EP, maybe it is reasonable (at least without contrary data) to assume
> > that 36 x jump number EPs is enough to jump.
>
>
> >
> > So there's the questions:
> >
> > How big of a fusion plant would produce 36 x jump number EPs? (Let's
> > say jump number was 4 for a military ship) - So Jump 4 would mean 144
> > EPs. How much fusion plant do you need if you were getting that power
> > from the plant?
> >
> > And can you install additional capacitors?
>
> Or "Was that rule for Black Globes made without consideration for the
> consequences?" TNE seems to have considered this, as there are several
> paragraphs in FF&S on Black Globes, their capacitors, the capacitors in
> the Jump Drive, and how you can use the power put in them by the Black
> Globe to power ship's systems. Whether they did the numbers to work out
> how this interacts with the Jump Drive numbers I don't know.
>
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