[TML] A little tinkering with Lasers

[Glenn M. Goffin]

>From: hal at buffnet.net

>Frankly - I wonder just how different Traveller would have been had
> there been no Meson Weapons or Meson Communications 
>technologies

With no meson weapons, really big ships are viable, even desirable,
for combat.  I think that that would be the biggest difference.

Meson communicators don't have much impact on communications in a
star system.  Theoretically you could talk to a ship on the other
side of a planet, but you have to know exactly where it is, so you
need some kind of sensor link, so you might as well use laser or
maser comm through the link.  You have the same time lag as laser or
radio.

Worlds would lack deep meson gun defenses, changing the dynamics of
attacking them.  Oddly, those weapons are not part of Invasion: Earth
or Fifth Frontier War.  

--Glenn




       
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