Johannes asked: > GT - Far Trader has tables for rolling what freight is available. > > I can come up with ideas for most of the possible combinations. > > But i am pretty stuck with Fragile Wetbulk or Fragile Drybulk.
Hello Johannes, the rules as written have the two categories fragile and perishable -- fragile cargo is damaged by rough handling or severe jolts, perishable cargo is damaged by the wrong environmental conditions (but not, it seems, by time). >From that I conclude that temperature-sensitive cargo is classed as perishable, not as fragile. This leaves a bit of a conundrum ... - FT64 mentions that fragile cargo may prevent routine decontamination of the holds. So if a load requires non-routine decon procedures, does that make it fragile? Or would it be more fitting to call it perishable? - Fragile can always be read as relative to other cargo in this class. If loaded grav trucks are RO/RO cargo, then shiny sports air/rafts are fragile RO/RO cargo (don't scratch the paint job). Similarly, if grains intended for a mill are ordinary drybulk, seeds may be fragile drybulk -- the former can still be used if grains are broken, the latter not. Use better augers, then. - For many fragile drybulk loads, the question becomes "if it is so fragile, why handle it as bulk load and not in special containers?" That could be a false economy, however, since the containers have to be loaded and unloaded, too. So why not load it directly into the hold, then? Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
