[TML] lifeboats

[Richard Aiken]

On 9/19/07, Anthony Jackson <ajackson at iii.com> wrote:
> We have never had an explanation for how Traveller ships shield them
> from radiation; there's no way a Scout can have sufficient conventional
> radiation shielding to survive refueling in a gas giant (even if you
> avoid the radiation belts, which canon doesn't even mention being a
> problem).

There seems to be some sort of (magnetic?) energy field involved.  At
least, that's what I get from the comment in the Bowman Belt
adventure, where it's explaining why the sheilding on Bifrost Station
failed and killed most everyone aboard.

In my old TU, I had some rad shielding with doses of anti-rad (from
Ultratech) in the ships emergency med kits.  Even so, nobody liked
refueling from gas giants, unless there was no other possible option.
In my new TU, fuel usage is a lot lower since you don't need hydrogen
to use the stargates; you only need enough to fuel your fusion ram
jets there and back.

-- 
Richard Aiken

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