Tom replied to me: [...] > Of course we did try to determine if the derelict was a known design and > the dice rolled came up not in the data base. Our efforts at extracting > the ships log succeeded and we discovered the larger vessel.
Hello Tom, I gather the derelicts were human, and from a known historical era? Then the serial number probably would have been listed in some dusty scholarly work back home, just not available on the spot. And the characters could have read the numbers to start with. By contrast, another explorer in the Traveller universe might stumble upon a 'barbarian' wreck from before the Vilani consolidation wars -- the species might be around, unless the Vilani governor stepped on them too hard, but the technology is unlikely to be on file, and neither is the language. > The larger > vessel was similar to the first encounter with one minor exception. This > time the first body through the airlock was attacked by a robotic device > and didn't survive the encounter. On the bright side neither did the > robotic device. Guess who the first body through the airlock was?;-) Yours? And a working robot sounds as if it was decades or at most centuries old, not millenia. > Does the above help? I really need an automed in the ship? And also that any ship has to be prepared for surprise encounters. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
