On 25Jun2020 1417, Thomas RUX wrote:
> Hi Rupert,
>
> Mt Referee's Manual p. 58 "Jump Drive: ...Jump drives are themselves a special high-yield power plant..".
Ah, right. And they don't require external power, unlike in Classic
Traveller from HG onwards (and thus the LBB 1-3 '81 versions).

So the original LBB ships didn't require external power for the jump
drive. From HG (including the original 1979 version) onwards you needed
power from a power plant.

Then MT says you don't need power, which TNE keeps (along with MT's
changed fuel requirements). TNE/FF&S (perhaps sensibly) doesn't discuss
what a jump drive is (aside from mentioning that it's 35% capacitors by
volume), just what it does and what it requires. In both cases, being
able to use the jump drive's capacitors to store energy from a black
globe implies that you should be able to charge them from your main
power plant, and logically that should save you fuel, unless almost all
of it is used for what TNE calls 'displacement mass'.

Gah. What a mess.

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Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com>