Hello Hubert Figuière,

Thank you for adding the information from GURPS Traveller (GT) Interstellar Wars. Donald McKinney's Integrated Timeline includes the dates from GT.

I do have a copy of GT Interstellar Wars, but is packed in a box that has a stuff piled on top making getting to it a bit time consuming.

Tom Rux

> On October 8, 2019 at 6:49 PM Hubert Figuière <xxxxxx@figuiere.net> wrote:
>
>
> On 2019-10-08 11:22 a.m., Thomas RUX wrote:
>
> > Phil, I am the poster about the timeline for the development of the J2 drive. According to CT Alien Module 6 page 5 the first encounter with the "Vilani Empire" came in "2096"/-2,422 when an US Space Force's expedition from a stopover/refueling point "about one parsec" out jumped to Barnard's Star and "encountered an alien culture".  Unfortunately, CT as far as I've found does not provide any indication of when Terrans developed a J2 and we vaguely know that the J3 drive was developed sometime around the 8th Interstellar War and used effectively during the 9th Interstellar War. MT provides more hints with more hints found in GURPS Traveller.
>
> GURPS Interstellar Wars say that about Terran Jump-2 drive, p26:
>
> > "The greatest success of this effort came in 2124, when the UNSCA
> > released the specifications for a Terran jump-2 drive."
>
> This is after the First Interstellar War, when Terra caught up on the
> Vilani.
>
> And to confirm the statement above by Thomas, from the same book:
>
> The 8th Interstellar war is AD 2238-2245
>
> GURPS Interstellar Wars, p36:
>
> > "During the Eighth Interstellar War, Terran engineers made two critical
> > breakthroughs in naval technology. The jump-3 drive had the potential to
> > give Terran fleets unprecedented speed and mobility, [...]"
>
> But:
>
> > "The new innovations came too late to be used during the Eighth Interstellar War, [...]"
>
> It seems that the Terran fleet didn't need that to win, but definitely
> got the edge into the Ninth leading to supremacy.
>
> (that whole chapter on the history was my favourite part in that book)
>
> So it's not CT, but I do think GURP Interstellar Wars is cannon for the
> common timeline.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Hub
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