On 9 Mar 2016 03:00, "Tim" <xxxxxx@little-possums.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 12:58:39PM +0000, Timothy Collinson wrote:
> > Yes, this is supposedly surviving the Maghiz.  On Spume, Jump-1 from
> > Darrian.
>
> I'd not worry about any sort of physical plausibility.  The Maghiz EMP
> crossing interstellar space to eventually damage equipment on all the
> colony worlds parsecs away is way more implausible than anything
> you'll ever write.  Whatever it was, it was not an electromagnetic
> pulse.  Those are subject to inverse-square law.  So just make your
> rock something that protects against that particle-of-the-week and
> you're fine.
>
>

LOL!

That's always good to hear - although to the bounds of my knowledge that there's an issue in the first place, I do like to see if I can put something in place that has a ring of plausibility to it in case any of the players ask.  ISTR the TML being a great help for example with the brown dwarf science back when I was doing Into the Unknown.

I know it won't satisfy those who *really* know their stuff, but for the majority of us at least having something that sounds like a 'thing' helps with the investment in being there.  As it happens, no one in that first trial even thought to ask so I didn't make a big deal of it.

For anyone who is interested, after my big sleep post TravCon16, I sat and wrote some 5500 words of Ashfall III yesterday (not quite equalling the record of the day after TravCon12 when I knocked out the first 7000 words of what would become Into the Unknown), and it is now really beginning to feel like something that I could send to Mongoose.  Hopefully with all three parts it will be sufficiently long enough for them to use. (Though players at the convention did sow the seed of a possible 'prelude' adventure set some 2000 years before.  And this morning I thought of two other related scenarios that I might insert as possibilities). 

Good job I've got one more day off work, if only I could retire to do this full time!  I'd still like to get my adventures from TravCon13 and 14 into print. But I'm not a great completer-finisher.

Thanks again
tc

PS love Bruce's idea of the Maghiz propagating through Jump space!