My Alternate Traveller rpg Universe - Articles - Glossary maps, solar system maps, planets, etc. tag:travellergame.jimsmaps.net,2005:0636c9f70f8b73b002d9c6fae6897571/articles/glossary Textpattern 2023-12-04T16:04:35+00:00 Dan Star https://travellergame.jimsmaps.net/ Bill 2018-09-08T18:25:35+00:00 2022-10-15T19:24:54+00:00 Glossary: U: Universal World Profile tag:travellergame.jimsmaps.net,2016-03-25:0636c9f70f8b73b002d9c6fae6897571/f3d5b607c4e8e757a863a651445d4ea1 I am using the CT Traveller Starter Edition 2 charts to create the Universal World Profiles, UWP for short.

A question mark for the star sport means I haven’t decided yet what type, if any, star port is there. Of course, certain types of technoloogical type worlds would require at least a landing area.

Since I came up with larger worlds than are in the OTU, the following is the diameter, circumference, and gravity. These are standard density ‘Earth-like’ worlds.

Planet diameter B = 8,800 miles , 27646 miles circumference is 1.1 Gs

Planet diameter C = 9,000 miles, 28274 miles circumference is 1.125 Gs ( one and one eighth Gravity)

Planet diameter D = 11141 miles, 35000 miles circumference is 1.39 Gs

Planet diameter E = 11459 miles, 36000 miles in circumference is 1.43 Gs

Planet diameter F = 12,000 miles, 37699 miles circumference is 1.5Gs

Planet diameter G = 50,000 miles, 50000 miles circumference is 1.99 Gs

Planet diameter H = 4222 miles, 13263 miles circumference is 0.375 Gs

]]> 2016-02-07T20:23:02+00:00 2022-10-19T19:15:50+00:00 Glossary: V: Vague Channels tag:travellergame.jimsmaps.net,2016-02-07:0636c9f70f8b73b002d9c6fae6897571/eb413a24f5ec649c843167339eee9849 black market, or free traders skirting the law somewhere. Or someone in a government ship looking to make a quick bit of gold.

]]> Samuel 2013-09-24T21:33:15+00:00 2022-02-17T15:34:26+00:00 Glossary: B: Bussard RamJet tag:travellergame.jimsmaps.net,2013-09-24:0636c9f70f8b73b002d9c6fae6897571/63f54ba0b87ef7214e16f1b452297197 Bussard RamJet; a large ship that gathers in hydrogen using huge magnetic fields. It is then super-heated using lasers. And the resulting plasma is fired out the back of the engine to move the ship along.

Not all of the galaxy has enough gas clouds to use this form of transport.

Dense gas concentraton: speed is up to three parsecs a week.

Medium gas concentraton: speed is up to two parsecs a week.

Light gas concentraton: use another means of transport

Beware ! As some of these ships advertise themselves as holiday excursions to many star systems, or a good all around means of transporting large numbers of people. These are actually generation ships built to look like Bussard RamJet ships and move no more than 1 light year per century ! Tau Zero effects do take place, but not in the early parts of the voyage, i.e. several centuries after leaving a solar system.



]]> 2013-09-24T21:31:08+00:00 2022-02-17T15:34:01+00:00 Glossary: G: Galactic (language) tag:travellergame.jimsmaps.net,2013-09-24:0636c9f70f8b73b002d9c6fae6897571/9c5d68fa1668cc81952b4a4242ef9890 Galactic; The common language of the galaxy.

Travel more than 300 parsecs, and learn that what is common one place, isn’t so common another place.



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