From: Tim

>On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 07:17:21PM +1000, Tim wrote:
>> On the other hand, the balance between Pauli repulsion and strong
>> force attraction is very fine.  If nuclear dampers shifted the
>> parameters of the strong nuclear force even a little
>
> Or more simply, assume that the Traveller universe has such a shift naturally.  There would be minor consequences for Big Bang nucleosynthesis
> and stronger ones for supernova dynamics, but nothing that couldn't be patched.

Also causes issues for the existing canon on nuclear weapons, though. Dampers cause their own category of problem, in that changing the strength of a force presumably causes stable states to become unstable with exciting (aka extremely destructive) results as nuclei head towards new stable states.