> Neat idea! > > How about a waterborn (possibly submersible for additional stealth and > storm protection) version of this to make it easier to give more > world-wide coverage of water rich planets?
Yes and no. As described, this one is for a world somewhere between Mars and Luna, or perhaps slightly more atmosphere. Note the life support. Going submersible would work best with a weapon that can be fired not just in an atmosphere but also underwater. In the Traveller context, a meson gun. That means TL10, and at TL10 a submarine would have powerful reactionless thrusters. Oops, I've re-invented the System Defense Boat :-) In a non-Traveller context, a sub-launched anti-orbital weapon might be a missile. In that case, the sub would look almost like a TL9 SSBN. I don't think VE says anything about lasers fired from water through air into space. Maybe Atlantis or Blue Planet have rules, I haven't re-read them in a while. Of course that would cut both ways - if a beam from a sub can kill a starship, shouldn't a beam from a starship be able to kill a sub? VE says a body of water is a blanket -8 to ladar, and starship sets should have the spare power to cope with that. (Something to consider for Traveller, too.) And I'll have to decide if my space-defense sub is designed for planetary threats, too. Lurking sub-fighters, robot torpedoes, the whole nine yards? Lots of things to think about ... I've just finished a batch of TL11 stealth flyers, so maybe I have time for that. > Any thoughts for using a beasty similar to this in an Ogre setting? except > for the large human crew it would seem to fit right in with the setting to > me. > > Clint As I remember it, Ogre has little or on space activity. I was more inspired by Keith Laumer's Bolos, at a slightly less awesome scale and TL because I wanted to fit into an almost-canon Traveller. As for a manned Ogre, the rules were neatly written to give robot AFVs an edge. They get better deals on access space and ultra-heavy frames. Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
