[sfconsim-l] Re: abstract movement system: HG/TCS

At 9:27 AM -0700 9/17/99, Steven Hudson wrote:
>From: shudson@lightspeed.bc.ca (Steven Hudson)
>
>>From: Michael Llaneza <maserati@flash.net>
>...
>>Speaking of Traveller, I've just posted a reference diagram at
>>http://www.flash.net/~maserati/ID/jovianCampaign.html as a
>>visualization aid for Full Thrust-based games around a gas giant. The
>>one picture online to date has the first three major moons of Jupiter
>>(Io, Europa and Ganymede in alignment, with Thebe actually present
>>but not visible). I included a 36" sphere to provide a reference for
>>Full Thrust gaming.
>
>  Neat stuff, and it certainly makes for a nice piece of terrain (mind
>you, you need a gaming surface large enough to fit the outline of the
>patio table-top on :)
>
>  So 36" in FT is being called ~100,000 km here? That's a bit short for
>most Traveller versions; have you considered adding the effects of the
>planets gravity - Jupiter should have ~1 G out to three radii or so.
>

Like I said, the scale isn't mine, I'm trying to track it down. So 
far I can't find it on the web anywhere, nor is it in my email 
archives. I expect the author will turn up eventually, and we can ask 
about the scale then. Failing that, I'll juggle the scale assumptions 
if it looks necessary. I can send you a copy of the file I'm working 
from; Excel, text or html would be available.

The next step would be sensor radii.  I'll probably concern myself 
with the following passive sensor radii:

a) small System Defense Boat (400 tons)
b) battleship
c) orbital facility

The sensor ranges in Fire Fusion & Steel will give me ranges for 
various sizes of passive arrays. Those'll be just to give me a 
ballpark figure of about the right magnitiude. Visualizing sensor 
ranges will give us a look at what kind of sensor coverage you really 
can put around a gas giant. I can also do an animation so you can see 
the sensor spheres from the orbital facilities orbiting the jovian. 
Needless to say, the poles will have to get a fair amount of extra 
attention or any approach from out of the orbital plane will bypass 
all your fixed sensor arrays.
Michael Carter Llaneza
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