Re: Imperium/Full Thrust campaign [OT]

Oerjan spake thusly upon matters weighty: 
> > I note that none of these ships has what I would call a spinal mount

> > from Traveller.  
> 
> No spinal mounts mentioned in Imperium (and none in the FB design
rules
> either), so why include them in the campaign? 

Well, you don't need them to simulate Imperium. But, they are a 
fixture of Traveller capital ship design. 
 
> Imperium doesn't use the Traveller background AFAIK - at least none of
> the Traveller versions I've seen have mentioned the Earth-Vilani war
in
> the early Human space-faring era. 'Course, I haven't read that much of
> the background material.

Au contraire. Humanity (Terrans) discovered Jump 2 before the Vilani 
(who had Jump 1) or was that 2 and 3? Anyway the Terrans had a tech 
advantage, and they kicked the crap out of the Vilani. This is pretty 
well documented in the Traveller background (I think - but then I've 
read so much Traveller that I'm not sure which book has this info).  

> That's the way the game background in Imperium makes them <shrug>

Interesting. 
 
 
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