T5, again - I'm really enjoying T5, can ya'll tell?

Things smaller than 100 dtons can enter jump.

The issue is they're not big enough to handle the stresses of exiting jump intact.

You can have a 50 dton cutter with a jump drive... it just has to have 50dtons of external drop tanks, pods, etc so it goes over the 100dton limit.

I keep looking at this option on "hull fittings" about "extendable wings"

It says they take up no volume when stowed... so when your airframe cutter comes back to the ship, it can retract wings and dock with less hangar volume.

The idea of a "Courier" cutter module that has 50 dtons of unfolding (memory metal?) wings that collapse down keeps crossing my mind. It'd have Jump-A, and fuel, and a little stateroom.

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 1:42 AM, Craig Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

Exactly. Both the lower size bound and the crew requirement on Jump-capable ships have directly contradictory canon. Personally, I think relaxing either requirement changes the Traveller flavor so much that I'd prefer to keep them around by fiat, even if we can't develop a good in-universe explanation for why they exist.
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 10:31 PM, William Ewing (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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Because Marc says so. No other reason given, AFAIK. And apparently J-Torps have been a major controversy.

From: Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com>
To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [TML]Tracking spaceships in Jump TU, was: Instant city

I'm curious. Exactly why can't Jump drives be miniaturised?
And, if they can be, to what scale?
The reason is, it would be an automated procedure to release a message pod with a miniature Jump drive that would replicate in reverse the Jump the ship just made, i.e. returning to the ship's point-of-origin to transmit "All OK"
Failure for such a pod to materialise would sound alarm immediatelly.

Greg
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